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Tournament Schedule 2009-10

USAWCT Kids Winter Tournament Schedule


2009-2010


  Day            Date                       Place  & Type



	

		

			
 Sunday
			
 12/20/09
			
New Milford Kickoff Classic  
		
		

			
Saturday
			
1/2/2010
			
Thomaston - Beginner
		
		

			
Sunday
			
1/3/2010
			
Southington
		
		

			
Sunday
			
1/10/2010
			
Bristol
		
		

			
Sunday
			
1/10/2010
			
Waterford
		
		

			
Sunday
			
1/17/2010
			
Berlin
		
		

			
Sunday
			
1/17/2010
			
Middletown - Beginner
		
		

			
Sunday
			
1/24/2010
			
Somers
		
		

			
Sunday
			
1/24/2010
			
Madison
		
		

			
Sunday
			
1/24/2010
			
Hartford - Beginner
		
		

			
Sunday
			
1/31/2010
			
Windham
		
		

			
Sunday
			
1/31/2010
			
Ledyard
		
		

			
Sunday
			
1/31/2010
			
Bristol
		
		

			
Sunday
			
2/7/2010
			
New Fairfield
		
		

			
Saturday
			
2/13/2010
			
Thomaston
		
		

			
Sunday
			
2/14/2010
			
Wethersfield
		
		

			
Sunday
			
2/14/2010
			
Wethersfield - MM & Bantam States
		
		

			
Sunday
			
2/14/2010
			
Danbury
		
		

			
Sunday
			
2/21/2010
			
Meriden, Milford, Bristol Colchester - Qualifiers
		
		

			
Sunday
			
2/28/2010
			
Hillhouse Sports Complex - Midgets, Novice MS State Championships
		
		

			
Sunday
			
3/7/2010
			
Lowell, Ma - New England Championships
		
	

Handout: 2009 Youth Tournament Schedule

Coaches Cards To Be Displayed
The Board of USAWCT has discussed this matter several times and the board has made a commitment to the athletes of our state. USA wrestling requires coaches to become members of USA wrestling as coaches and we will now require all coaches to display their card at mat side in the coaches area.

They have purchased well over 100 lanyards, which will be able to hold the coaches card securely and protected. Sarah Jadach, membership director, recently has been sending the lanyards with the coaches cards and we expect the coaches to use them. We will have more at the tournaments and will enforce the wearing of the card on the mat at all tournaments. We expect the tournament directors to support this effort and should assign some staff to enforce this safety issue.

Officials will be instructed not to answer any questions on a call or
interpretation of a rule during a match from anyone that does not have the proper coaches card displayed on the mat. The person in violation will be asked to leave the mat and this must be enforced by the tournament Director.

This will begin at the first tournament and will not change until the
States, where a copper certification is required to be on the mat.

Winter Folkstyle Tournament Guidelines 2009 - 2010

USA Wrestling Membership For those entering tournaments
Competitor & Athlete

Ø        ALL Connecticut wrestlers & coaches ...

Registration Procedures
Registrations:
1. All tournaments require pre-registration. Absolutely NO Walk-ins will be permitted.
2. Only Directors, or their appointee, of sanctioned clubs will be allowed to pre-register wrestlers. Wrestlers who are not club affiliated or are from out-of-state are requested to contact the Tournament Director directly by the Thursday immediately before the event.
3. Only the data base on our web site will be used to register for tournaments, this will ensure that all wrestlers are proper USA wrestling members and allow for a uniformed format to process entries.
4. Each wrestlers weight must adequately represent the weight that they will be come tournament morning. Every wrestler will be required to check-in the morning of the tournament to check-in and get a skin check.
5. Tournament registration fees are $15 for each individual with a family-cap of $25. All club directors are to collect their wrestlers registration fees and pay the tournament director the morning of the tournament. Payment should not be made with more than one (1) check.   There are NO refunds for no-shows.
6. All wrestlers are required to have a current USA Wrestling membership.
7. Wrestlers in need of a card should contact their club director or Sarah Jadach at (203) 735-7175 or sjadach23@aol.com . Arrangements must be made by each Wednesday prior to a Sunday Tournament to allow proper issuance of cards, NO EXCEPTIONS

Officials & Bracketing
1. Only certified officials may be used. Tournament directors are required to contact Brian Reardon (Officials Director) at least 4 weeks prior to your tournament. Brian’s phone number at home is (860) 584-9523 and his cell is 203-521-6304 or by e-mail coachbreardon@comcast.net. You’ll need at least one (1) more official than the number of wrestling surfaces that you will be using.
Site:
2. Mats- no less than one-half mats is to be used at any time for any age category. The minimum mat size is recommended to be the equivalent of two (2) full-mats broken-up into three (3) mat surfaces.
NEW:
All Novice and Middle school wrestlers that are in a weight class of 115 pounds or more will be required to wrestle on Full Mats, this is not left to the tournament director’s discretion.

3. Sound system- adequate sound systems must be available in each area where wrestling matches are present
4. Emergency personnel- it is the responsibility of each tournament director to have on hand one of the following type of personnel (certified trainer, nurse, doctor, paramedic, EMT, fireman with medical training)
Bracketing:
We will be using the 5-man (Maryland Crab) round-robin format.
5. All wrestlers will be grouped by both age category and weight into 5-man brackets. Each wrestler will wrestle one-another giving each wrestler a total of 4 matches (round-robin format). There are many advantages to doing this.
§        Everyone gets 4 matches. When using 8-man brackets with only 7 listed wrestlers the #1 seeded wrestler will only get two (2) matches. Wrestlers with lesser experience tend to only get two (2) matches too. The round robin format automatically gives these wrestlers a 100% increase in the number of matches.
§        Wrestlers of equal caliber can be grouped together providing for more competitive matches. This should give everyone 4 competitive matches versus a #1 seed in an 8-man bracket who usually gets only one (1) competitive match.
§        It is a very easy format to operate. This will allow the tournaments to be operated more smoothly and in a timely fashion.
§        This is also a very easy format to understand. Everyone, coaches, wrestlers and parents alike should quickly understand the progression through the tournament of each and every wrestler.
With only five (5) rounds the match-ups will be identical week in and week out.
o        Round 1- #1 vs #2 and #3 vs #4 with a bye to #5
o        Round 2- #1 vs #3 and #2 vs #5 with a bye to #4
o        Round 3- #1 vs #4 and #3 vs #5 with a bye to #3
o        Round 4- #1 vs #5 and #3 vs #4 with a bye to #2
o        Round 5- #2 vs #3 and #4 vs #5 with a bye to #1
§        Parents will quickly understand the format and know when their child is finished wrestling for the day.
§        This format also allows each tournament director to pre-bracket their tournament. In the event of a no-show the bracket then becomes a 4-manCriteria are being developed to identify place winners in the event of some wrestlers having the same win-loss record.
·        When only two (2) wrestlers have the identical win-loss record the tiebreaker will be the one who won their match.
·        When three (3) wrestlers have identical win-loss records the following criteria, in order, will apply-
o        Match points- 3 points for regular decision (minor), less than 8 pt delta in the final match score; 4 points for a major decision where the match score delta is between 8 and 11 points; 5 points for a technical fall where the match score delta was more than 11 points; or 6 points for a fall, forfeit or injury default.
o        Scoring total- the wrestler who had scored more points in their 3 matches regardless of the type of decision, fall, forfeit or injury default.
o        The tournament registration form will be modified to allow each coach to identify those wrestlers who would typically place in the top three (3) of an 8-man bracket. Wrestlers will then be grouped by not only age and weight but their skill level as well.
o        A minimum of 20 minutes must be allowed between wrestlers matches.


Weight Classes
Registrations:
1. All tournaments require pre-registration. Absolutely NO Walk-ins will be permitted.
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