This year we will have two 6-team divisions and then a joint tournament. The West Division will play in Efland on Saturdays at 2pm, mostly at the new Eurosport complex. The East Division will play on Saturdays at Fletcher Park in Raleigh. I encourage Durham/Chapel Hill players to sign up for the West Division so Raleigh players can fill up the East side, but you're free to go to either.

TFDA Spring League is again going to use a core system of forming teams. Each team will be allowed to show up to the draft with a group of 8 players/friends/ringers/teammates already pre-determined. This core needs to have 5 men and 3 women and there will be an experience point cap based on Thuy's savage seven rating system that most of us are familiar with. The details of this system are included below.

Don't stress over the details, the point of all this is to give everyone a chance to play with a group of friends that they are able to choose! We're also again going to allow teams to submit art work to screen print on their jerseys.

Can't find a core? No problem! Sign up individually and there will still be a draft and everyone will end up on a team. Pairs can sign up for the draft, but there will be a point cap of 8 on pairs as having "power couples" available come draft time makes parity hard to achieve.

Registration is not yet open, but we wanted to go ahead and announce the format so you could start forming your cores. Every player will still register separately, with those on the same core indicating a team name or captain when they register. Registration will close March 19th, so there's less than two weeks to get your cores formed!

2010 Spring League Schedule:
March 27 - Game 1
April 3 - Game 2
April 10 - Game 3
April 17 - Game 4
April 24 - Game 5
May 1 - Make-up date/rematches
May 8 - Make-up date/potential crossovers
May 15 & 16 - Tournament

CORE/DRAFT EXPERIENCE GORY DETAILS:
Each core can have up to a total of 32 experience points for its 5 men and 3 women. The men's total cannot be higher than 24. If you've seen the coed savage point system, there are a few changes here to Thuy's version. It only goes back two fall seasons, not three. The age adjustment for women has been lowered, but the age deductions do not apply to 6 point men or women. Junior worlds/nationals and non US worlds/nationals count for something.

When we do the draft, the core with the lowest male point total will go first. In the case of a tie, the core that is least top heavy will go first, meaning a 6 5 3 3 1 core will draft before a 6 6 3 2 1 core. We will then follow the same rules for women, based on each core’s female point totals. (Hint: to earn a good draft position, cores may want to consider not maxing out their experience points!) Also, as happened last year, we may switch to a non-gender specific draft, which means draft order will be determined by your entire core together.

Point values for individual players are determined by highest experience during the last TWO years (2008-2009) and are as follows:

6 points
- Open or Women's Club Nationals

5 points
- Mixed or Masters Club Nationals
- College Nationals
- Open or Women's Club Regionals
- Worlds or Non-US Nationals

4 points
- Mixed or Masters Club Regionals
- College Regionals
- Open or Women's Club Sectionals (unless you played on an only college team, this exception applies only at the sectional level)

3 points
- Mixed Sectionals
- College Sectionals
- Junior Worlds or Nationals

2 points
- Tournaments
- Winter League/Summer League
- Corporate League

1 point
- pickup games
- never played before (everyone is worth at least a point).

Any player under 18 years of age, or any male having reached age 42, or any woman having reached age 38 may subtract 1 from his/her initial point assessment. Anyone having reached age 50 may subtract 2 points from his/her initial point assessment. These age deductions do not apply to players with open or women's club nationals experience in the past two years. If your birthday is during the season (3/27-5/16), you may use either the before or after age.

Read the tourney write-up here:
WL Champs "Chimbley Sweeps" Dust Off "Red Setzers"

Video of the final point is here, with promise from videographer Charles Kerr that there will be more points posted in the future:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hec46uQSXpA

Captains present at the end of each season a disc to honor their most valuable player and/or their most spirited player. Some teams do both.
CLICK HERE to see the list of the recipients of the MVP/Spirit disc on all of the teams.
Some of the tributes pay great honor, and some are very humorous. It's well worth a read!

Photos from Sunday semifinals and finals have been posted by the various expert volunteer TFDA photographers in several folders at http://tfda.smugmug.com/League/2010-Winter-League. Remember that all sales go to support the Ultiplex fund. Get the pix you want while supporting the future home of Triangle ultimate!

Spring League is around the corner. Be on the look out for announcements from that league's commissioner, Troy Revell.

The Savage tourney went off as planned on Sunday, Feb. 14th, and it turned out to be a great day (though the fields themselves were less than ideal).

Click here for a detailed write-up , which includes a photo of the prevailing squad.

Other photographs from the Savage Seven Tournament have been recently posted by Arnett Brown at TFDA.SmugMug.com, so click here to see the Savage Tourney album and consider purchasing a print or digital download to support TFDA.