Player Eligibility & Schedule

Eligibility

• All players recognized as ACO-PRO players will be invited to participate for FREE.

Schedule

• The ACO-PRO Series will take place at 3-4 ACO Majors during the ACO Season. The Final ACO-PRO Series will take place at the World Championships in July. See the Majors page for locations and details.
• All ACO-PRO players who would like to participate in an ACO-PRO Series must be registered 2 Sundays (11 days) prior to the event by 11:59pm EST

Qualifying Round
(Frame Games)

• All registered ACO-PRO players will be assigned a Friday start time to play an ACO Frame Game.
  Note: Players will still be eligible to participate in Womens, Juniors, Seniors, and/or Blind Draw.
• All ACO Frame Games will be scored by an ACO Official.
• The players with the best sixteen (16) ACO Frame Games will advance to the ACO-PRO Series Championship Skins Bracket on Friday afternoon.

Jerseys

Players have several jersey and entry options for the ACO-PRO Series in Season 22.

Players receive FREE entry into ACO-PRO Series events when competing in any of the following:

• An official ACO-PRO Season 22 Jersey
• An official ACO King of Cornhole Singles Champion Jersey
• An ACO-PRO Bag Maker Jersey
• The ACO-PRO Custom Jersey

ACO Bag Makers have the opportunity to sponsor a player’s official ACO-PRO Bag Maker Jersey for a one-time $200 fee. The jersey includes:

• Prominent Bag Maker logo placement on the front
• Secondary Bag Maker logo placement on the back
• Player’s name on their individual jersey
• FREE ACO-PRO Series entry for that player for the season while wearing the jersey

The $200 ACO-PRO Bag Maker Jersey program is available exclusively through participating ACO Bag Makers.

Players may choose to compete in apparel of their choice by paying a $250 entry fee for each ACO-PRO Series event.

• Apparel does not have to follow the official ACO-PRO jersey design
• Apparel may not display logos or branding from other national cornhole organizations or brands not affiliated with the ACO

• Players may purchase a ACO-PRO Custom Jersey for $650, which may feature up to four (4) approved sponsor logos
• All sponsor logos are subject to ACO approval
• Once purchased, the player receives FREE entry into all remaining ACO-PRO Series events for the season while wearing the approved jersey

An active ACO Season 22 World Membership is required to participate.

Championship Seeding

• The sixteen (16) players who advance from the Qualifying Round will be seeded according to their Frame Game score and placed into a single elimination Championship bracket

Championship Format

• Each game is worth a total of thirteen (13) “Skins”.
• Each Frame of a game is equal to one (1) Skin.
• A player earns a Skin by outscoring their opponent during the given Frame. It doesn’t matter if they are outscored by 10 points or 1 point, the result is winning one (1) Skin.
• Each Skin is set to a dollar value (TBD).
• If the Frame is a push, then that Skin carries over to the next Frame, making that Frame now worth two (2) Skins.
• Once one player wins seven (7) Skins, the game is immediately over. That player is the declared winner and advances to the next round of the bracket.
• All remaining Skins of the original 13 will be awarded to the winner.
• An ACO Official will score all games, keep track of Skins earned and inform players of the value of upcoming Frames.

Championship Payout

• Each Skin is set to a dollar value (TBD)
• Example based on a skin value of $50:
  • Player 1 wins the game by a score of 7 Skins to their opponent’s 2 Skins.
  • The remaining 4 Skins will be added to the winner’s total, equaling 11 Skins
  • Player 1 will earn $550 for the game and Player 2 will earn $100 for the game.
• All Skins will accumulate during all games in bracket play, and each player will be paid according to the number of Skins earned during the entirety of the tournament.