Info/Format

MON 12/19 (5:15PM) — Congratulations to Gold Rush Jewelry from San Jose, which won our premier 6’2″ division of our Gold Rush Tournament (yeah, same name!). Also congrats to Dream of Oakland which won the one-day 4-team mini-tournament in the AAA-REC division. More info, recaps, and stats to follow in the next few days.

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2010 Gold Rush Info/Results

HERE’S THE INFO FOR THE 3-POINT SHOOTOUT FOR 49ERS/STEELERS TICKETS

FOR THE SUNDAY ONE-DAY TOURNAMENT IN OAKLAND FOR THE AAA-REC DIVISION, SCROLL DOWN OR CLICK HERE FOR THE JUMP

WED 12/14 (11:30AM) — Scroll down to read about Sunday’s schedule. Directly above the Saturday schedule immediately following this paragraph is a list of pools/teams for the 6’2″ division… (8:45AM) — Here’s the schedule for Sat. Will post more later…

6’2″ Pools/Teams

Here are the teams in our 8-team 6’2″ division, which to me has the most parity I have ever seen in any of my tournaments. Please note, I will be bringing the tape measure, so be prepared if your seemingly 6’3″ player gets protested on. I simply have to do my job.

The following is the best write-up that I can muster up. Sorry if I left out key players and obviously the teams I am more familiar with will get more buzz. Sure, I would’ve preferred to call each one of you and get all the details, but quite frankly it is better to just put down what’s in my brain and see how things play out on the court. We’ll be keeping full stats and everything should post by the end of the year.

Format is this: split the 8 teams into two pools of 4. Amongst those four, setup a “mini-final-four” bracket so that we can better seed all the teams #1 thru #8 for Sunday. Yes, all teams make it to Sunday, which guarantees you three games played (2 Saturday, 1+ Sunday), and also means you can screw up a little on Saturday with no consequence to your championship hopes on Sunday. This is the Dream League way.

There is ONE scheduling quirk for Saturday: Tru needed an early and late game, so we forced them to be at 430p for the 2nd game, no matter if they win or lose. That means Filcom is definitely playing at 230p, win or lose, and Money Tree and Hibachi need to figure out who they match up with immediately following their game.

Pool play on Saturday was determined almost entirely by the following: (1) your fickle schedule needs, (2) if you were one of the first teams to pay, you got a more favorable schedule in terms of less gap between games, and (3) a little diversity of schedule, such that teams that have seen each other in previous tournaments, we tried to avoid.

On Sunday, with only one gym, if you scroll down below to see the schedule, we have four quarterfinal games to get out of the way. So I gave the greatest gap to #4 (which carries along with it opponent #5), then #3, then #2, then #1. So unless anyone has any objections, obviously if you “earned” the #1 seed, you also earned the better schedule with less gap in between.

The other special Dream League thing that we do when seeding is, we don’t repeat any matchups from Saturday in the first quarterfinal round. That way no one goes home being immediately eliminated by someone they beat on Saturday. If we come across a repeat matchup, we skip to the next-lowest seeded opponent. For example, if #1 already played #8, then we would skip to #1 vs #7 and #2 vs #8 for the quarterfinal on Sunday, assuming both those matchups also were not played in pool play. Don’t worry, this doesn’t happen a whole lot and when it does, the adjusted seedings usually still make sense. This also counterbalances the possibility of one pool being stronger than the other.

We’re also gonna have a 3-Pt Contest all day long in between games and at halftimes, at your discretion, and the winner will receive two tickets to the Monday Night 12/19 game 49ers vs Steelers. More on this later.

POOL X
Filcom (Hayward) — a previous two-time champion of Dream League tournaments (here’s one I randomly found), this collection of all-stars from Hayward’s filcomhoops.org is most notably led by pg Kenny Evans and power forward AJ Samson.

Allstars (SJ) — Sponsor Ralph Hodgen usually enters teams in Open divisions, but with not enough teams in that division this year, he turned to captain Reed Rasberry, who will probably bring some of his teammates from Dream League squad Undrafted, which is one of the most solid teams we have in the Oakland location.

NOTE: If you see blank rows in the table below, there are errors; if so, please disregard the table and email me immediately. All games in bold cannot be moved/swapped.

Sunday 12/18/2011

I’ve already discussed the 6’2″ division’s Sunday proceedings above. For the AAA-REC division, you can see that we have the following four teams in these logistics-sensitive brackets: PLU vs Dream and Heatonkees vs Hawks, then winner vs winner and loser vs loser. Yes, the champion gets t-shirts. You have all paid extra for that. Also, we tacked on an extra $5 to cover the additional expense of WKRC gym. So originally the cost was $160, tack on $20 (times 4 teams) to cover the cost of championship t-shirts, and tack on $5 = $185 total entry fee, which includes refs. So you are NOT required to bring $25 cash for the refs as you would during league play.