BSYJ TOURNAMENT

BLESSED SACRAMENT YELLOW JACKETS

2022- 2023 TOURNAMENT INFORMATION

Background

With the pandemic hopefully behind us, the Blessed Sacrament Yellow Jackets Basketball Club will once again be hosting its invitational tournaments. Unlike previous years, where the club had guaranteed five games over a weekend event, the club is changing the format for this year’s event.

Format

The format for this year will be having entered teams compete over two weekends. Depending on the division, team will play either three or four games on their two weekends for a total of 7 guaranteed games. Games will be played on Saturday and Sundays (no Friday night games) and will involve four games of round robin play followed by a three-game elimination tournament (See typical format below). The round robin portion of the event will be used to properly seed the elimination tournament, with the objective of competitive games and a final ranking for Ontario Cup Seeding purposes.

Cost

Each team will be guaranteed 7 games. In keeping with our tradition, all participants will receive a tournament t-shirt. Unlike previous our previous tournaments, the participants will “not” receive a medal at the conclusion of the event.

Grade School Teams       U10, U11, U12, U13, U14,                             $1300.00

High School Teams          U15, U16, U17, U19                                         $1350.00*

*Additional fee for shot clock operator.

Calibre of Play

The current format allows for only 8 teams to compete in each age division. The targeted calibre of play for the tournament is “A”.          Note: there are two divisions for the boys and girls Grade 7 (U13) and Grade 8 (U14) age groups, where we are hoping for the Calibre of play to be either A+ or A-.

The following are the Tournament Dates 

BOYS U13, U14 and GIRLS U13, U14         Calibre of play   A to A+                                                                             1^st weekend                November 12^th, November 13^th                  2^nd Weekend     January 7^th, January 8^th  

BOYS U11, U12 and GIRLS U11, U12         Calibre of play   A                                                                                        1^st weekend                November 26^th, November 27^th                  2^nd Weekend     January 28^th, January 29^th 

BOYS U10 and GIRLS U10, U15, U16         Calibre of play   A                                                                                        1^st weekend                February 18^th, February 19^th                         2^nd Weekend     March 11^th, March 12th

BOYS U13, U14 and GIRLS U13, U14         Calibre of play   A- to A                                                                              1^st weekend                April 1^st, April 2^nd                                              2^nd Weekend     April 15^th, April 16^th        

Tournament Format

Note:    Depending on draw teams will play 4 games on one of the two weekends.

1^st Weekend Saturday (All teams play 2 round robin games)

1^st Weekend Sunday (Teams playing four games on the first weekend play 2 round robin games, Teams playing three games on the weekend play 1 round robin game)

2^nd Weekend Saturday (Teams that played only three games on the first weekend play their final round robin game)

After Completion of round robin play, teams are ranked for the elimination tournament.

1^st Round                                                                                                                                                                                Quarter Finals (Game QF1 1^st vs 8^th, Game QF2 2^nd vs. 7^th, Game QF3 3^rd vs. 6^th, Game QF4 4^th vs. 5^th)

2^nd Round                                                                                                                                                                     Consolation Semi Finals (Game ConSF1 Loser QF1 vs Loser QF4, Game ConSF2 Loser QF2 vs. Loser QF3)

Championship Semi Finals (Game ChampSF1 Winner QF1 vs Winner QF4, Game ChampSF2 Winner QF2 vs. Winner QF3)

3^rd Round (Final Ranking Games)                                                                                                                                        7/8 Game Loser ConSF1 vs. Loser ConSF2                                                                                                                      5/6 Game Winner ConSF1 vs. Winner ConSF2                                                                                                           3/4 Game Loser ChampSF1 vs. Loser ChampSF2                                                                                                                           1/2 Game Championship Winner ChampSF1 vs. Winner ChampSF2                                                                                                                                           

Note: Teams that played 4 games the first weekend with play the elimination tournament the second weekend with two games on Saturday and one game on Sunday. The teams that played only three games the first weekend will play their final round robin game and one elimination game on the Saturday with the final two elimination games on the Sunday.