Today we received a very disappointing email.

EECC has informed us that not only are people bringing drinks and food into the gym, they don’t listen when they are told to leave it outside or say “just let me finish it first”.

We pride ourselves on being a respectful community that does not have to resort to discipline in order to do what’s right.

If you will be in town on the February long weekend, you should definitely come play dodgeball with us! It starts at 1:00 at East Elmwood CC February 18th and should take 5-6 hours to complete.

We are doing a draft-style tournament, which means that we play a quick 1v1 sudden death tournament, the winners of which will be the captains, then they choose teams from the available players and we play out a full tournament with these new teams!

Meet some new players, and compete in a tournament where the teams should be close in skill level and therefore everyone has a legitimate chance at winning!

The cost is low too, only $20 if you sign up by January 31, or $25 if you sign up in the month of February.

Register by sending your payment to payments@dodgeballwinnipeg.com or by visiting our webstore to check out via credit card/paypal.

Our table showing the player stats in draft for the Winter 2018 season was not pulling correctly. For this reason we had to create a new one, which appears to be working properly.

Your standing may have changed, and if you have the previous list bookmarked please delete the bookmark as the new player stats list has a different URL.

Thank you!

We have done a small run of backpacks, and a large run of water bottles. Check out our store page if you’d like to buy some DW gear!

Last season, we added an addendum to our standings page. In the description of the “draws” column, we added that in Winter 2018, a loss in Sudden death would provide a single point (much like overtime loss in hockey). This was because the WDBF rulebook received an update that ended the possibility for a game to end in a draw.

This was at the bottom of the standings page, and while some people noticed it, many did not. We just wanted to make sure there was no confusion as to the “SDL” column in standings – which means Sudden Death Loss.

Thursday schedules are finally out! Thursdays provided the biggest challenge for us as it is our second biggest night, and we have done our best to make the schedule as fair as possible to everyone. Unless there is a legitimate error (3 teams listed for the same time, or the wrong gym posted on a game) we will not be changing the schedule any further. Silver teams, please check the schedule for your double header (each team has one).

For Thursday nights, games starting at 6:30, 7:30, or 8:30 are at East Elmwood and games starting at 8:00 or 9:00 are at Sinclair Park. If you notice a game erroneously listed as the wrong gym, or if a team’s double header is listed at 2 separate gyms, please notify us. We have gone over the schedule to make sure this is not the case but it is possible we missed something. Please do not email us if your team plays the same team twice or for any reason other than the ones listed in this post. This was a very tricky schedule to make and believe us when we say we have done our best to please everyone as best as possible.

There have been changes since yesterday. The schedule was not complete/published at that time so if you wrote any games down make sure you double check as many have been moved around since then.

Q: Is the schedule out?

A: The schedule for any given night is not considered complete until we have emailed the captains of that night with the contact list.

Q: I can see games appearing as you enter them, why don’t you just release the schedules all at once?

A: We do not have a dedicated web development department and therefore do not have a sandbox server in which to make things before they are published.

Q: My team was bumped up a division, why was this?

A: When a division has 5 or 9 teams we cannot make it work with the length of our season. To keep things fair, we bump the highest ranked team from last season up a level, or the lowest ranked one down a level, depending on if there is an uneven number of teams. Example: A division with 9 teams will have the one that was most successful bumped up one level.

Q: Can you move us back down?

A: We are sorry, we cannot. We only move teams around when we have to. We held registration open an extra week to try to get extra teams in divisions where we would have to bump teams, and managed to get a few extra ones so we ended up bumping teams in just 2 divisions out of the entire league. We do our best to provide you with the level of play that is appropriate for your team. This also means that once rosters are submitted, we do move teams up to the level they belong at if we believe they are intentionally registering below their skill level. We care about your experience, and do our best to make every division as far as possible given the restraints we are working with.

We understand it can be frustrated to be bumped up, but if it ends up being a miscalculation on our part, be assured that you won’t get bumped up again the next season. Sometimes divisions are combined when there aren’t enough at one level (like this summer when we had only 2 teams register for Sunday silver) but we do our absolute best to keep things as even as we can.

Q: We play the same team two weeks in a row, is this a mistake?

A: It is not a mistake. When divisions have any number of teams other than 8, you will end up playing some teams twice. Sometimes those weeks will be consecutive. Everything is entered into a round robin generator and to avoid making mistakes we enter them into our system in the order they are generated. Sometimes that means you play twice in a row.

Sunday schedules have been posted! We have also added the following to our schedule page:

Before you consider emailing the league, please read the following:

1. If you’re concerned about a date missing please check our important dates page.
2. If you’re concerned about your team playing the same team twice in a row, it happens. Not every division has a perfect number of teams, no it was not a mistake.
3. If you’re concerned because you don’t see your schedule yet, please wait until we are 72 hours or less before your game. You will always have your schedule 72 hours before your game, if it is missing at that point then it is an error and please notify us.

You will be notified when the Sunday schedules are complete. We are working hard to get these all out and accurate. Some changes may happen to the ones currently on the site. We will post here as soon as it’s done. Thanks again!

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