Hello all, last night was a particularly rough night in terms of player behavior. I personally witnessed two players throwing bags down as hard as they can either on the floor or worse, on top of the board. I also heard of another player punching a wall.
Please note that I completely understand that many of the players in the league are very competitive and get frustrated when they’re not playing their best. However, these actions are simply not acceptable and will be dealt with in the future. The equipment we use is not cheap and the place we play at has the perfect set-up for cornhole and let’s us play for FREE! We simply cannot risk losing the Hall or damaging equipment because of frustrated players. I mean if you want to take it out on something, well, there’s always your car, or perhaps you should invest in a punching bag at home. If you want, you can put my face on the punching bag if it helps.
So, going forward the following rules will be used. All actions from the past two weeks will not be held against you.
First and foremost, you are responsible for ANY damage that you cause to the equipment or to the facility where we play. If something breaks because of your actions, you will have to pay to cover the damages.
Along with that, I’m going with the three strikes and you’re out approach for the “typical” actions we’ve been seeing such as throwing bags down, kicking boards/tables or punching walls. Of course if a players does something worse than this, then they could be suspended immediately.
1st Offense – verbal warning
2nd Offense – team forfeits the current game they are playing or their next game (if they just finished a game or are between games)
3rd Offense – ejection from the current league session with a possible suspension
In the end it’s still just a game. Many of use love the game and love the competition and we certainly get mad when we don’t play well, but we need to learn to not take it out on any thing or any one.
If you would like to discuss anything with regards to these rules or any rules for the league, just let me know.
Dave
These rules make me so angry!!! *smashes wall*
hehe =)
Come on guys and girls, lets act like adults ! We all know the boards are very tacky right now and ALL of our bags are doing weird things. Let’s all just try to adjust our throws and do the best that we can. We have to have these rules for everyone’s sake, and i hope that we don’t have to enforce them in the future. I do like everyone that plays in our Monday night league, and i feel that this is one of the best bunch of cornhole players around!!! I would hate to see someone suspended from our league.
I also have no desire to enforce these rules. I don’t want anyone to leave the league, but I also don’t want to lose our free place to play over something stupid.