VINELAND-
Today the Office of the Commissioner, after a 4-2 YES vote by the captains, has announced a rule-change that will go into effect immediately for this year's tournament.
Going forward, any non-playoff tournament game, that is tied at the completion of 6 whole innings or at the end of an inning declared final by time-limit, shall be decided by a swing-off between the two teams. The format for this swing off will go as follows:
- Each team may choose 2-players to participate. Each player from each team will be given 2-swings. The team whose players accrue the most home runs in these 4 total swings, wins.
- Should the match be tied after the initial swing-off, each team must send forward one (1) new player to take 2-swings. Should no winner be decided, this process repeats until the top 6-players from each team have participated. At least 6 team members must go before you can repeat.
- Should the match still be tied, the order in which each team sent guys to the plate starts to repeat, but now each player only gets one (1) swing each.
- Pitches may be thrown by any member of that teams organization, and must be thrown with at least one-foot on the dirt of the pitching area on that field.
The overall premise is that this rule will prevent the tournament from getting severely off schedule as it has in years past because a game needed to go extra-innings. The longest game in WP history to date, was when the Goodfellas and Goon Squad went 13 innings in a semi-final match back in 2014 (WP8). The longest regular tournament game to-date, was when the Goon Squad and Flapacamingos went 11 innings back in 2017 (WP11). That game, originally slotted for an hour, lasted an hour and forty (1:40) minutes, throwing the next sets of games and even eventually the championship game into a significant delay. This rule aims to avoid that going forward.
If there are any further questions or concerns, please contact the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner at your earliest convenience. Thank you.
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