The ACO has released information about the structure of the King of Cornhole tournament. This is preliminary and is subject to change.
KING OF CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE
• The registration deadline is January 17th, 2011.
• Participants must have purchased or won a Golden Ticket to enter.
• The top 40 World Ranked players (CornyForty) automatically advance to the Bracket (Round 2). Players are seeded based on their World Ranking.
• All players will receive a personalized itinerary a week prior to the event. Players will be expected to bring their itinerary with them to the event. The itinerary will include match times, court numbers and competitors for Thursday.
• Players are required to check-in no later than one hour prior to their first match. Further event instructions may be addressed during this time period.
• All courts will be open for play from 8:00AM until 9:45AM for practice February 3, 2011.
• Each court will feature a schedule of the games on the court.
King of Cornhole: Day One
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
• Total potential participation 310 players.
• Each player to compete in four games.
• The top 24 points earning players will advance to the King of Cornhole Bracket Challenge (Round 2) and be seeded 41 to 64 based on total points earned in Round 1.
• Player points totals are accumulated as follows: total points scored against competition, 5 points awarded for each victory and 1 point awarded for going 4-0.
• The maximum points a player can score is 105.
• The following steps will be used to determine tie breakers, if necessary: points earned in competition, overall record, least amount of accumulated points scored against a player, head to head Seven21 Challenge.
• All players not recognized as ACO Pros (players with less than 156 World Ranking Points) who do not advance to the King of Cornhole Bracket will be placed into the King of Sling.
King of Cornhole: Day One
• There will be ten groups of players. Group 1 will have the top ranked players on down to Group 10 having the lowest ranked players.
• Players will be placed in groups as follows: World Rankings, SCR, random placement if no points earned within ACO ranking system.
• With a full field of 310 players, each group will have 31 players. ACO will attempt to have an equal number of players, or close to an equal numbers of players, in each grouping.
• A player in a group will play one game against a member in four other groups.
• Players in groups 1, 4, 5, 8, and 10 will play a game against each other.
• Players in groups 2, 3, 6, 7 and 9 will play a game against each other.
• Players are required to be at their court five minutes in advance of their game.
• Players will be penalized for being late and missing a game. (penalties yet to be determined)
King of Cornhole: Day One Time Breakdown
• 310 potential competitors compete in KOC Round One for a potential of 1240 total games
• Assumption: 4 games per hour on each court (15 minutes each)
• Games will be schedule to start every 15 minutes on a court. For example…
Court 1
10:00AM Game 1
10:15AM Game 2
10:30AM Game 3
10:45AM Game 4
11:00AM Game 5
etc…….
• Goal to have 24 courts in play for 13 hours – 10:00AM until 11:00PM – which will allow us to finish 1248 games in 13 hours (52 games per court x 24 courts = 1248 total games completed). We will run until midnight with the hour cushion on the back end in case a few games run over.
Example Player Card:
| Douglas Hopkins | (WR#73/SCR113/G2) | ||||
| KOC Golden Ticket Player # | 298 | ||||
| Time | Court | Opponent | World Ranking | SCR | Group |
| 10:00 AM | 1 | Matt Gray | 228 | 73 | 7 |
| 2:15 PM | 15 | Randy Zech | 176 | 90 | 5 |
| 6:30 PM | 3 | Frank Geers | 104 | 106 | 3 |
| 10:00 PM | 21 | Paul Nelson | 290 | 61 | 9 |
King of Cornhole: Day Two
Friday, February 4th, 2011
KOC Day Two Format
First Pitch: 10:00AM
Format: Bracket Challenge. Field of 64 Players. Single Elimination, Best 2/3.
Details:
Players are seeded as follows: Top 40 players (CornyForty) are pre-seeded 1-40. The remaining 24 spots will be seeded based on Round 1 point accumulation.
Championship match will be approximately 8:30pm Saturday, February 5, 2011 on center court at the Horseshoe Casino. Spectators are welcome.
KOC Game Schedule
Friday, February 4th
Round 1 (Field of 64 players)
10 AM Match Ups
Court 1 – 1 Seed vs 64 Seed – Match 1
Court 2 – 8 Seed vs 57 Seed – Match 2
Court 3 – 9 Seed vs 56 Seed – Match 3
Court 4 – 16 Seed vs 49 Seed – Match 4
Court 5 – 17 Seed vs 48 Seed – Match 5
Court 6 – 24 Seed vs 41 Seed – Match 6
Court 7 – 25 Seed vs 40 Seed – Match 7
Court 8 – 32 Seed vs 33 Seed – Match 8
11 AM Match Ups
Court 1 – 2 Seed vs 63 Seed – Match 9
Court 2 – 7 Seed vs 58 Seed – Match 10
Court 3 – 10 Seed vs 55 Seed – Match 11
Court 4 – 15 Seed vs 50 Seed – Match 12
Court 5 – 18 Seed vs 47 Seed – Match 13
Court 6 – 23 Seed vs 42 Seed – Match 14
Court 7 – 26 Seed vs 39 Seed – Match 15
Court 8 – 31 Seed vs 34 Seed – Match 16
12 PM Match Ups
Court 1 – 3 Seed vs 62 Seed – Match 17
Court 2 – 6 Seed vs 59 Seed – Match 18
Court 3 – 11 Seed vs 54 Seed – Match 19
Court 4 – 14 Seed vs 57 Seed – Match 20
Court 5 – 19 Seed vs 46 Seed – Match 21
Court 6 – 22 Seed vs 43 Seed – Match 22
Court 7 – 27 Seed vs 38 Seed – Match 23
Court 8 – 30 Seed vs 35 Seed – Match 24
1 PM Match Ups
Court 1 – 4 Seed vs 61 Seed – Match 25
Court 2 – 5 Seed vs 60 Seed – Match 26
Court 3 – 12 Seed vs 53 Seed – Match 27
Court 4 – 13 Seed vs 52 Seed – Match 28
Court 5 – 20 Seed vs 45 Seed – Match 29
Court 6 – 21 Seed vs 44 Seed – Match 30
Court 7 – 28 Seed vs 37 Seed – Match 31
Court 8 – 29 Seed vs 36 Seed – Match 32
Round 2 (Field of 32 remaining players)
3 PM Match Ups
Court 1 – Winner of Match 1 (1/64) vs. Winner of Match 8 (32/33) – M33
Court 2 – Winner of Match 4 (16/49) vs. Winner of Match 5 (17/48) – M34
Court 3 – Winner of Match 2 (8/57) vs. Winner of Match 7 (25/40) – M35
Court 4 – Winner of Match 3 (9/56) vs. Winner of Match 6 (24/41) – M36
Court 5 – Winner of Match 9 (2/63) vs. Winner of Match 16 (31/34) – M37
Court 6 – Winner of Match 12 (15/50) vs. Winner of Match 13 (18/47) – M38
Court 7 – Winner of Match 10 (7/58) vs. Winner of Match 15 (26/39) – M39
Court 8 – Winner of Match 11 (10/55) vs. Winner of Match 14 (23/42) – M40
4PM Match Ups
Court 1 – Winner of Match 17 (3/62) vs. Winner of Match 24 (30/35) – M41
Court 2 -Winner of Match 20 (14/57) vs. Winner of Match 21 (19/46) – M42
Court 3 – Winner of Match 18 (6/59) vs. Winner of Match 23 (27/38) – M43
Court 4 – Winner of Match 19 (11/54) vs. Winner of Match 22 (22/43) – M44
Court 5 – Winner of Match 25 (4/61) vs. Winner of Match 32 (29/36) – M45
Court 6 – Winner of Match 28 (13/52) vs. Winner of Match 29 (20/45) – M46
Court 7 – Winner of Match 26 (5/60) vs. Winner of Match 31 (28/37) – M47
Court 8 – Winner of Match 27 (12/53 vs. Winner of Match 30 (21/44) – M48
Round 3 – SweetCorn16 (Field of 16 remaining players)
5PM Match Ups
Court 1 – Winner of Match 33 vs. Winner of Match 34 – M49
Court 2 – Winner of Match 35 vs. Winner of Match 36 – M50
Court 3 – Winner of Match 37 vs. Winner of Match 38 – M51
Court 4 – Winner of Match 39 vs. Winner of Match 40 – M52
Court 5 – Winner of Match 41 vs. Winner of Match 42 – M53
Court 6 – Winner of Match 43 vs. Winner of Match 44 – M54
Court 7 – Winner of Match 45 vs. Winner of Match 46 – M55
Court 8 – Winner of Match 47 vs. Winner of Match 48 – M56
Quarterfinals (Field of 8 remaining players)
7PM Match Ups
Court 1 – Winner of Match 49 vs. Winner of Match 50 – M57
Court 2 – Winner of Match 51 vs. Winner of Match 52 – M58
Court 3 – Winner of Match 53 vs. Winner of Match 54 – M59
Court 4 – Winner of Match 55 vs. Winner of Match 56 -M60
Semifinals (Field of 4 remaining players)
9PM Match Ups
Court 1 – Winner of Match 57 vs. Winner of Match 60 – M61
Court 2 -Winner of Match 58 vs. Winner of Match 59 – M62
Championship Match
Saturday, February 5, 2011
8:30PM Match Ups
Court 1 – Winner of Match 61 vs. Winner of Match 62
10:00PM Coronation Ceremony