Hey everybody!

We are looking to start up a tournament in SP during the offseason. If things go well the first time around, we would like to try and do this once a week until the SP season starts!

It will consist of eight teams; with eight players on a team which will be drafted by the owners chosen by the Tournament Committee. Anybody can play! You do not have to be signed up for SP although only SP players who have been recently active in the league (past three seasons) will be eligible to draft a team. This is a good way for new players to see the skill level of the league and get to know the members of the community, and decide if the SPNHL is something they would be interested in.

The tournament will be held over two days, with the most possible games to play in a night being four.

Below is what the schedule looks like:

The dates on the picture above are only suggested dates for now, as we are looking for some feedback on when people would be available to play. We would prefer to keep the game times early, since there is a potential to play four games in a night (this could be amended to a 45 minute difference between start times, as opposed to the 30 minute differential seen above).

Rules for the most part will follow typical SP rules with a few new ones:

1. No whining allowed, take your L’s like a champ.
2. Lag outs follow SP rules (https://thespnhl.com/disconnect-and-delay-rules/)
3. No one can refuse a position.
4. No more than two players with Truculence per team on the ice at once.
5. All players drafted are required to play a minimum of 1 game (unless someone no shows)
6. If a team is short a player before game time, they may request one of the spare players on other teams who are not scheduled to play in that time slot.
7. The draft will happen the day before the Tournament starts. Owners may make a single trade, a strictly one-for-one trade, after the draft up until the games start.
8. Pictures of final scores must be taken, as well as a picture of the player summary showing PSN IDs, goals, and assists.
9. Games have to start as soon as possible for this tournament to run smoothly; don’t wait ten minutes for a guy to respond to see if he is playing. If you are short a player, grab a rostered player from another team who isn’t playing in that time slot. If you take more than ten minutes to start after your last game ended you will FF that game (We aren’t playing any waiting games around here, we just want to play some hockey!).

These rules are strictly on a trial basis right now, and depending on how the first tournament goes, necessary changes will be made to make it more enjoyable.

As stated in Rule 7, the draft will happen the night before to give everyone a chance to tweak their roster with a trade if necessary. Anyone not drafted that signed up will be placed in a Free Agent pool to be used by any team if one of their drafted players is not able to play.

This tournament is meant to be a fun way to play with new people within and outside the league, and grow some more interest in the SPNHL. If you get drafted to a bad team, it’s ok! You will only be playing two games anyways and your tourney is over, and you can try again next week.

If everything goes well, I’d also like to try and track player records, tournaments won, and potentially player statistics (just basic ones though: games played, goals, assists, and points).

I would like to get the League’s input on what days of the week work best for everyone this off season; I’d prefer not to do weekends since summer is here. Looking to start next week if the interest is there!

You’re all gutless,

Randymarsh2012