I just sent this email out to everyone attending the 2008 St. Johnsbury Academy Invitational:
Hello everyone,
In this email you will find information on the following topics:
+HOUSING +ROSTERING +SCHEDULING +IMPORTANT NOTES
Please make sure you read through all of the following information and contact me ASAP if you have any questions.
+HOUSING All teams that requested housing have been assigned hosts. Email have been going out over the last couple days connecting teams with hosts. If you have any questions at all about housing, please contact the housing coordinator, Rae Ann Knopf, at
. Please remember that hosts are providing floor space only and that teams are responsible for their own breakfasts.
+ROSTERING Overall the rostering situation is quite good, but there are still quite a few teams that are missing liability waivers and/or fees for several of their players. Only those players listed on your online roster will be allowed to play. If you submitted your roster to the UPA in paper form, it will be on the online roster. If you absolutely must, you may submit paperwork during the Friday night registration. But again -- only if you absolutely must. To find out the status of your roster login to your upa.org account and find out -- All the info that I have is also available to you. Please also make sure you've sent in a chaperone form.
Each team's rostering status is summarized in the "Roster" column on this spread sheet. The first number is how many people are currently okay to play. The second number is how many players are missing their liability waiver and/or UPA dues. PLEASE CHECK THIS LIST NOW TO MAKE SURE IT'S ACCURATE. To find out what you're missing, login to your account and check your roster. Do this now.
+SCHEDULING Preliminary schedules are attached. Please look them over and let me know if you have any questions or see any mistakes. Here's the scheduling summary:
Girls: As hard as I try I can never seem to quite make it to a nice number of teams. This year we have 9 with no clear break down of A and B divisions. So, what we're going to do is run a 9-team round robin. Every team will get 8 games to 11. Final tournament placing will be determined by record, then head to head, then head to head point diff, the common opponent point diff. For more info see the attached schedule. Since it's a 9 team round robin the initial ranking isn't that important. So, I've come up with an initial ranking that works well for some specific team's bye requests.
Boys A Division and NEPSUL: There will be two pools of 4 in each division. After pool play the teams are re-ranked and placed in a standard championship bracket. See the attached schedule for more info. Pools will be determined on the morning of 5/12. If you're playing games this weekend please make sure you input them into the UPA's scoring database by Sunday night.
Boys B division: There will be two pools of 5. After pool play the top 4 teams will go straight to semis. The middle four teams will play in the 5th-place bracket, and the bottom two teams will play for 9th/10th. See the attached schedule for more info.
+IMPORTANT NOTES - All games are 100% mandatory. Skip a game and you will not be invited back next year. - At least one chaperone MUST stay with each team at ALL times. - Spiking is not allowed. - Everyone is invited to the Saturday night dinner/dance/trade night regardless of if you're eating dinner there or not.
I will be sending out one more email early next week with final boys pools and last minute important reminders.
