Tuesday, April 15, 2008

BSSC Outdoor volleyball tournaments UPDATED

All are at Ipswich River Park in North Reading, unless noted

Sun June 8 - Reverse Coed - Fernald School in Waltham

Sun June 22 - Men's, Women's, Reverse Coed

Sat June 28 - Reverse Coed

Sat July 12 - Reverse Coed

Sun July 20 - Reverse Coed

Sat August 2 - Men's, Women's & Reverse Coed - Mayors Cup in South
Boston

Sat August 9 - Reverse Coed

Sun August 24 - Reverse Coed

$40 a team if you sign up by noon the Friday before the tourney

$5 off for each BSSC member

$50 walk-on price regardless of membership.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Yankee Board Minutes April 7th

Attendance: Jonah Mytro, Chuck, Jay Flynn, Daniel Chen, Mark Archibald, Lynn Kerr (left at 8), Jeff Sinnamon

Confirmed No: Tom Sweeny

Guests: Bruno Tramontozzi, Chet Oberhelman

Start time: 7:00pm

End time: 9:30pm

LOCATION: Lasell College, Athletics Center

Reports

  • Treasurer Report
    • No update from Dori
  • Registrar’s Report
    • No update from Judy
    • Jonah received batch of email addresses for mailing list
  • NERVA Report
    • Board of Directors meeting 3/11/08
    • Jonah and Jay attended
    • JO’s having issues with theft
    • Reviewed stipends and last year’s budgets
    • 2010 USAV Open Championships
    • Membership fees
      • Need to increase; paper sign-up more expensive than online sign up; extra monies passed on to registrar
      • Costs have increased and membership fees have not in the past 5 or so years
      • NERVA (Dave Castanon) would like our decision by end of May
      • Yankee Board Discussion
        • Credit Card fees are a factor
        • No financial reason to update one-day fee
        • Jay Flynn motions to raise the membership fee to $35 (online)/40 (paper) effective Sep 1, 2008
          • Chuck seconds
          • For: Unanimous
        • Mark Archibald will email the registrar to find out more details before the board decides how the extra fees might be appropriated
  • Ratings Report
    • Nothing to report; nobody moved since the freeze
  • Blog Report
    • Jonah has stats available for anybody that would like to review them
  • Newsletter Update
    • 1700
    • Promoting championships and nationals
    • Coming soon for picnic, nationals, summer volleyball
  • Web Editor Report
    • The ISP that supports NVC and the Yankee Tournament Roster/Registration Database moved to a new data center location.
      • Was down for a weekend; but the move went smoothly.
    • Procedures for doing automated nightly backups of the Yankee Tournament Roster/Registration Database have been put into place by Jim Cirillo the NVC Webmaster (Thanks Jim!).
      • So worse case going forward:
        • Lose 24 hours worth of updates
        • Back up and running within a few hours after any future hardware issues are corrected
    • Yankee Accreditation tests for Second Referees and Scorekeepers were put online Friday 4/4
      • Announced on Saturday (Many thanks to Steve Webster and Carly Pariseau)
    • Due to a motherboard issue on Tom’s main PC at home that's since been corrected, he is a few weeks behind in updates for Tournament Results and Players Looking for Teams.
      • Hope to wrap those up by the end of next weekend.
  • GRC Report
    • Last scramble at Regis was full
    • Next weekend is a scramble at WNA
    • Taking a $500-800 loss at each scramble
      • That’s about a $4000 loss per year
      • We cover one-day membership
      • Next year we may need to raise the scramble fee
  • Bylaws Committee Report
    • None this week
    • Goal of December ’08 to have bylaws re-worked
    • Sam is working on updating the Yankee Rules Document

Old Business:

  • Approval of past minutes
    • Jonah motions to accept
    • Daniel Seconds
      • Accepts: Jeff S, Lynn, Mark, Daniel, Chuck, Jonah, Sam
      • Abstain: Jay
  • NERVA BOD Meeting
    • See above notes
    • NERVA would like us to elect/appoint the position or board member from Yankee to be a voting member on the NERVA board. The President is one of two.
    • Will table until a later date
  • Meeting Dates
    • Choose meeting dates through August
    • May 12, 7 pm
      • Will decide the August draft
    • June 7 (at Yankee Picnic) 1:30
    • Bylaws Committee will meet in July
  • TNT Vacations
    • Will invite to next meeting for 10 minute presentation
  • Beanpot
    • Jonah wanted start times and teams by Thursday 5pm
      • It was done online
      • No email was sent promoting the updates
        • Al thinks people were registering late
      • 3-four team pools in the men’s tourney Saturday
        • This tournament did not meet the point minimum
  • Minimum Points per Team is 160 for a full day tournament
    • Board cannot find this documented in old minutes or TD guide
    • If the rule was not published, its not enforceable
    • Jeff motions that the minimum amount of play is 168 points for a regular day tournament
      • Jonah seconds
      • For: Unanimous
      • (Lynn has left before this vote and all that follow)

New Business:

  • JO Ratings
    • JO membership versus adult membership with rating
    • Jonah motions that anybody that plays Yankee should have a Published Yankee Rating and are subject to all standard Yankee rules and regulations
      • Sam seconds
      • For: Unanimous
    • Discussion of instant re-rates regarding men rating women and women rating men
      • Jeff motions to amend the rules so that the decision to instantly re-rate a player must not need to be a joint decision by TD and rater; sole discretion is at the hands of the rater
        • Jonah Seconds
        • For: Chuck, Jay, Dan, Jonah, Jeff
        • Against: Sam
        • Abstain: Mark
      • Motion passes
  • Yankee Tournament Skeleton Modification
    • Daniel Chen/Bruno
      • Have more high level tournaments on Saturdays
      • Is it possible to adjust skeleton to incorporate the day of the weekend as a factor?
      • Jeff recommends that it be announced pre-draft that TDs should keep in mind that many high level players coach JOs which have tournaments on Sunday
    • Judy’s thoughts (via email)
      • Find an equation for the draft that benefits the legit longtime tournament directors.
        • Per Jonah, new TDs are on a probationary period for the first draft period they are in
      • Perhaps allowing TDs that have been successfully running tournament for 5+ years the opportunity to draft 100 team spots, 3+ years running 60 team spots, newbies only 30....or something like this OR get rid of the draft completely like we used to.
        • The draft was started to get more TDs; maybe it's time for free enterprise.
        • Per Jonah – should not be free enterprise or give long term TDs any more benefits
      • Jeff is examining options to include a geographical factor into the skeleton system
    • Will continue to discuss at future meetings
  • Uniforms
    • Bruno is concerned about referee consistency regarding libero uniforms
    • Chet has requested Steve Webster get the information out to BAVP again regarding the rules and the interpretation
    • The tournament head referee has the final decision on all uniforms
  • Nationals Mappings
    • Per David Castanon (email)
      • The minimum for regional BB should be right after the maximum for regional B. In the past, we never worried about minimums for National ratings; minimums were introduced only for Yankee-championships, when you had 9 levels of championships. This should be corrected immediately.
      • Somehow, we seem to have extended those to the USAV regionals.
      • Jay motions that the minimums be lowered so that the ranges are contiguous, effective immediately
        • Sam seconds
          • For: Mark, Jeff, Chuck, Daniel, Jay, Sam
          • Against: Jonah
        • Motion Passes
    • Per Krissy Norman (via email)
      • I think it should be brought to the board attentions they keep an eye out on the different levels at Nationals and think about the current mappings especially the B and BB. I think the B level should be allowed 3 B women as the competition seems to be getting stronger. Same with the BB
        • Per Jonah: Women’s B mapping should be adjusted for next year and will work with Dave for next year to adjust.
  • Ratings (per Don Cohen via email)
    • Why can you only have 4 Bs if you’re going to B nationals. Is it time to try again to address the nomenclature of ratings?
      • First change
        • D becomes D
        • C- become DD
        • C becomes C
        • C+ become CC
        • B- becomes B
        • B becomes BB
        • B+ becomes A
        • becomes AA
        • A/A+ become AAA or Open
      • Second Step
        • Change tournament mappings to match nationals mappings CC and below stay the same old +3. That way, teams can play all year together and prepare for nationals.
    • Discussion ensues
      • Our largest membership rating is C+ and so the Yankee ratings system works for the majority of our members
  • Nationals
    • 55 down from 67 last year
    • Only 1 UVolley
    • Coed is down
    • Using championship results to rank teams
    • Need an OPEN 2010 update at next meeting
  • Championships
    • Chet needs help getting teams for championships at some of the lower level
    • Requests GRC gets scramble players involved with championships
    • Chet wants to then have GRC push on different levels to get teams organized
  • Picnic
    • June 7
    • Same food as last year
    • DJ – taking recommendations - $500 stipend; 9-4; including emcee responsibilities
    • Chet getting shirts for picnic staff/volunteers to wear
    • Chet will work with Tom Sweeney to create online picnic registration
    • Will contact BSSC
  • Mileage reimbursement
    • Board has not received this yet

Yankee Membership Fees Increase for 2008-2009

Starting sept 1 2008, yankee will be raising their membership fees. To promote the online registration process and make the registration process more efficient for the registrar there will be a price difference between signing up online vs via a paper form at a tournament or via mail.

Online registration (w credit card payment)- $35

Paper registration (at tourney or mailed in)- $40

1 day memberships are not effected and remain $15

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

VBLI Summer Volleyball League/Tournaments

In addition to our grass events VBLI is now offering leagues and beach tournaments. Thats right Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night VBLI will be hosting three levels of play all at a brand new facility located at Nickerson Beach. Conveniently Located Between Long Beach and Jones Beach. Co-ed 4s and Co-ed 6s teams spots still available. Each night the leagues will consist of two formats Co-ed 4s and Co-ed 6s with all levels of play including recreational, intermediate and advanced. Early bird registration extended until April 15th, 2008 where we will give you a $100.00 discount of all team registrations. This season will be broken into two sessions. Session one will be from May 12 until July 10 and the second session will be from July 14 until September 10.


VBLI Beach League:
Session One: May 12 to July 10
Session Two: July 14 to September 10
*Free Agents Wanted - Call For More Information

Indoor Tournaments:
April 19, 2008 - Baruch College - Co-ed Sixs
May 02, 2008 - Hunter College - Co-ed Sixs
May 10, 2008 - Baruch College - Co-ed Sixs

Beach Tournaments:
June 7, 2008 - Mens & Womens Doubles, Co-ed Fours
July 26, 2008 - Mens & Womens Doubles, Co-ed Fours
August 23, 2008 - Mens & Womens Doubles, Co-ed Fours
September 13, 2008 - Mens & Womens Doubles, Co-ed Fours

Grass Tournaments:
June 21, 2008 - Co-ed Fours & Sixs, Reverse Co-ed 2s
July 12, 2008 - Co-ed Fours & Sixs, Reverse Co-ed 2s
August 16, 2008 - Co-ed Fours & Sixs, Reverse Co-ed 2s
September 6, 2008 - Co-ed Fours & Sixs, Reverse Co-ed 2s


For More Information and Registration Go To: WWW.VOLLEYBALLINTHEPARK.COM

Friday, April 4, 2008

Beanpot this weekend- MIT

The annual Beanpot volleyball tournament is going to be held at MIT this weekend, April 5-6th 2008 at the Rockwell gymnasium at MIT (on Vassar Street).

Saturday includes the Mens AA and Womens AA competition with pay starting at 9am and ending about 6pm.

Sunday includes the Mens A level with play starting at 9:30am.

Teams come from all over New England for this invitation tournament including New York, New Jersey, and as far away as Bermuda.

Visit MIT.edu for directions.