Chester County Ultimate

CCU SUMMER LEAGUE 2008

Details at www.Pada.org/CCU - updated 03-15-2008

Cost is $40 (includes shirt, disc, fields, games, etc.)
plus yearly pada memberships dues ($10).

Registration will end at 11:59pm on Sunday, May 11th 2008.

We are shooting for a total registration of 238 players (up to 170 Men, and at least 68 women - 5:2)

Registration is open!!!
registration instructions

** UPDATE 1-18 ** We are very excited about 2008 CCU Summer League.   In 2006, we registered 137 players.   In 2007, we registered almost 200, including over 50 women.   This year, we are shooting for 238 players including over 70 women.   But we need your help.   Invite your friends, reach out to your neighbors and cube buddies... get an office team together.   Help us grow the league.   We've love to grow to 14 teams of 17 players this summer, with a north and south division and crossover games.  It will be incredible!!  If you'd like to captain or get involved in helping to pull things together, please email CCUcoordinator AT pada DOT org and let us know.  RECRUIT, RECRUIT, RECRUIT!!! Print this postcard to hang up and distribute... (right-click & save-target-as)

(*) New & Returning Core Teams welcome!! Bring a new core team in this year :-) It is not at all necessary to be part of a team to join the league, but don't forget that full teams and core teams are welcome in PADA's Chester County Ultimate League. Here is your chance to get together with some friends and form a team. The only caveat is that this is a co-ed league, so you will need to have men & women in your core or full team. Core Team captains should notify us as soon as possible of your intention to bring a team so we can add you to the captains list on the registration page.

(*) No Pay, No Play - If you don't register and pay, you aren't registered for the league and will not be placed on a team. No exceptions. **If you sign-up and then decide you cannot play for whatever reason, a full refund will be given if you let us know by 6/16 and a $20 refund will be given up to 6/30.

(*) Women Wanted - We are pushing hard to add 40 new women to CCU.  Print this postcard to hang up and distribute... (right-click & save-target-as) 

Important (tenative) Dates for 2008 Summer League

Mid-March - CCU Registration Opens
April 14th - CCU Captains Meeting - details about the summer, 6:30PM for food / 7:00PM for the meeting
May 11th - CCU Registration Ends at 11:59 PM - (wait listing begins)
May 12th - CCU Captains Meeting - finalizing the team rosters, schedules, round robins, etc, 6:30PM for food / 7:00PM for the meeting
May 19th - Practice games will begin this date (dependant on Field availability)
June 2nd - Tenative 1st game
July 26th-27th  Wildwood Beach Tourney 
July 28th No CCU games due to Wildwood. Probably scheduled for Wednesday, August 1st
August 2nd - CCU Finals, starting at 8:50 AM - Awards & Party to follow.  (Rain Day of Aug. 3rd)
August 9th-10th - Fairmount Finals

 

What to expect this summer

- Games will be on Monday & Wednesday Nights. The number of teams and feild availability will have a significant impact on game nights. 

- Pickup will be held somewhere (once we finish the field permit process). We've also been informed of pickup occuring at the polo fields across from the Stroudwater Research Center (970 Spencer Rd, in Avondale PA) Wednesday's starting between 6 & 7. Check out www.Pada.org/CCU/Schedule for more details.)

- We are working on secured fields at Stetson Middle School on the southbound side of 202/322 between 926 and the south end of downtown West Chester.  West Goshen is not available.   We will be using the Kennett Fields at Anson B. Nixon Park   We are also looking into some other options as well.  Please email CCUcoordinator AT pada DOT org if you have sugguestions. 

- Games WILL start at 6:30 PM again this year. We are asking you to plan on arriving at the feilds no later than 6:15 PM to warm up, stretch, cleat-up, flip for shirts & possession, etc. Games WILL start at 6:30 PM. It is the captains responsibility to make sure they can feild a team prior to arriving at the fields each week and communicating any problems to their opponent 24 hours in advance to allow for rescheduling. The Intramural Attendance Keeper is provided to CCU captains & players to assist with this. If a team is short players or women at 6:30 PM on game day, that captain has the choice to either (A) accept a 1-point penalty for every 5 minutes that (s)he can't field a team, or (B) play 7 vs whatever players (s)he has present, keeping in mind the male / female ratio. If the short team opts for point assessments, the first point is assessed at 6:35 PM and every 5 minutes there-after until either (1) they are able to field a team, (2) they decide to play short, (3) they forfit the game, (4) or they still don't have a team at 7:30 PM at which point the game is forfit and pickup begins. Games will start on time again this summer.

How did Playoffs & Finals work in 2007?

We want finals weekend to be both fun and competitive and we want everyone to have the opportunity to heckle the A-Pool final game before heading to the party. So with that in mind...
- Teams will be grouped into pools by regular season win-loss ratio & then head to head results.
- Pool-play game 1 were held the week of July 23rd.
- Pool-play game 2 were held the week of July 30th (Probably Wed, August 1st due to Wildwood).
- Pool-play game 3 were held the morning of finals, Saturday August 4 at 8:50 AM.
- Each team will played at least one additional playoff game on Saturday, and possibly a second depending on the number of teams involved with the league this year and how many pools we create.
- The top two A-Pool teams had a half or full-game bye going into their final game to allow everyone else equal heckling.

- We are going to try to stick with a playoff format where everyone has a shot at the title, but that won't be certain until we know the total number of teams.  In 2007, the final Round of Pool play begans at 8:50 AM on Saturday August 4th at the Kennett Fields.    At the end of Pool play, the top ranked team in each Pool played each other for the championship & 2nd place.   The 2nd ranked teams in each pool will played 3rd & 4th in the league.   The 3rd ranked teams in each pool played for 5th & 6th in the league.   And the 4th ranked teams at the end of pool play shot it out for 7th and 8th.   A-Pool finals will started with a half game delay so that those playing for 3rd though 8th all had an equal chance to heckle teams playing it out for the title.  And then the PARTY began!

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UPDATE FROM JANUARY 2008

Jan & Feb - we're working on nailing down fields. We're re-applying to West Goshen, Stetson & the Kennett YMCA. Let us know if you know of, and want to suggest field locations, however be sure to include contact names and phone numbers.

If you want to captain a team this year, please let us know prior to registration opening in Mid-February. An email reminder will go out in late January to encourage folks to re-up.

March - Registration opens, we start heavy promotions, & finalize field permits. If you want to help with promotions or fields, let us know. We're talking about posting flyers, business cards, HTML e-mails that you can forward and more.

April - Captains meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 14th, so get your taxes done early so you don't have to final an extention. We need a representitive from each team at this meeting.

May - Registration Closes on May 11th. We will finalize teams on May 12th. We should be playing practice games by the end of May / begining of June. No games are currently scheduled for the Monday following the Wildwood Tournament.

Finals weekend is tenetively scheduled for the first or second Saturday in August, but due to a Scheduling with the Fairmont Park league, that date is TBD. Keep an eye here for updates.

Any questions? please contact CCUcoordinator AT pada DOT org.

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