Tournament Rules & Game Format: USAU 2023 rules apply.
Divisions/teams will be responsible for keeping track of their own cap times.
Men’s Division Competition Rules:
Saturday Rounds 1-3 (Clipped Pools & Crossovers): Games to 13. Halftime Cap at 40 minutes, halftime is 7 minutes. Softcap (+1) at 80 minutes. Hard Cap at 95 minutes. Total round length 105 minutes. 1 Timeout per half plus one floater.
Re-Seed Break: +10 minutes between round 3 and 4 Saturday to re-seed
Saturday and Sunday Brackets: Games to 15. Halftime Cap at 45 minutes, halftime is 7 minutes. Soft Cap (+1) at 90 minutes. Hard Cap at 105 minutes. Round length 120 minutes. 2 Timeouts per half.
Women’s Division Competition Rules:
Saturday Pool Play Pool A: Games to 13. Halftime Cap at 40 minutes, halftime is 7 minutes. Softcap (+1) at 80 minutes. Hard Cap at 95 minutes. Total round length 105 minutes. 1 Timeout per half plus one floater.
Saturday Pool Play Pool B & Sunday Bracket Play: Games to 15. Halftime Cap at 45 minutes, halftime is 7 minutes. Soft Cap (+1) at 90 minutes. Hard Cap at 105 minutes. Round length 120 minutes. 2 Timeouts per half.
Mixed Division Competition Rules:
Saturday Pool Play: Games to 13. Halftime Cap at 40 minutes, halftime is 7 minutes. Softcap (+1) at 80 minutes. Hard Cap at 95 minutes. Total round length 105 minutes. 1 Timeout per half plus one floater.
Pre-Quarter Crossovers & Sunday Bracket Play: Games to 15. Halftime Cap at 45 minutes, halftime is 7 minutes. Soft Cap (+1) at 90 minutes. Hard Cap at 105 minutes. Round length 120 minutes. 2 Timeouts per half.
Cap Rules:
Timeouts in Cap: timeouts ARE allowed in soft cap and hard cap.
If heat timeouts are required by weather conditions, an extra timeout should be taken after the leading team gets to 4 and 10 (games to 13) or 12 (games to 15).
Soft Cap: Finish the current point, then add one to the higher score and play to that but do not exceed the original game score (13 or 15). Waiting on the line is part of the current point. Timeouts are allowed in soft cap provided you have remaining timeouts from regulation.
Hard Cap: Finish the current point. If tied, play one more point. If not tied, team with more points wins. Timeouts are allowed in hard cap provided you have remaining timeouts from regulation.
Halftime Cap: Halftime cap works just like soft cap. At the halftime cap horn, play continues until the current scoring attempt is completed. If, after the current scoring attempt is completed, the halftime target has not yet been reached (7 in a game to 13, 8 in a game to 15) by one team, one is added to the higher score and the resulting number is the new halftime target. Make sure after taking halftime your teams properly switch end zones as from the start of the game.