May 26 - BCSBL League Info!
I was just sitting at my computer earlier today, when my phone rang. So, doing what any human would, I picked up the phone, put the receiver to my face, and answered with a pleasant "Hello?", with a slight bit of confusion in my tone due to the fact that the caller ID didn't pick up the name.
"Get online and go to chat room 'Brown County SBA', immediately." It sounded like Logan "The Punisher" Snider, but before I could ask any questions, he hung up, and I was forced to follow his not-so-pleasant commands.
After a quite extensive conversation with a little more than a half dozen Brown County players, I found out some more news: there is now a streetball "league" in Brown County. Dubbed, so cleverly, the Brown County Street Ball League.
There was a surprising amount of new teams. There was, of course, The Revolution, Team Bullet Train, and Swingspike. But, overnight, the following had come out of the dark: "Armstrong", balling out of the Sprunica Elementary Courts; the "BC Ballas", the cleverly-named team of yuppies that played at Artist's Drive Park; "Jetrunner", from the Helmsburg Elementary School district; "Street Pirates", some "gangster ballas" from the Cordry-Sweetwater Beach area; and finally, "KALi4ÑA", who claimed the Van Buren Elementary School ball-courts as their home.
In case you're wondering, yes, we do have four elementary schools in the county, each one set in different sections of the county. Helmsburg, Sprunica, and Van Buren are all out of the base town, Nashville, and are spread in different areas of the county, while Nashville E. is found right in the dead center. Also, there was the rich Cordry-Sweetwater area, right on a large lake that had a beach. Right outside the beach, there are two courts: one with regulation goals, and another with BCSBL "regulation" goals. There's the Artist's Drive courts, where the "BC Ballas" get to play while their parents buy them mountains of useless crap, and they get to act like they're "all-that". Personally, I feel they're too young to play in the league, seeing as how nobody above the age of twelve is going to be participating on their team. And finally, the newest addition to the Brown County High School was "Eagle Park", an area about a mile from the actual school building, which was made for cross-country, baseball, and softball. But, fortunately, they also added three courts, each with changeable rim heights. This is where, despite their loss of Deer Run to us, Swingspike found a place to reside (NOTE: Our high school team is the "Brown County Eagles", hence "Eagle Park").
So, yes, we're officially starting a "league", now. Schedules and everything. Each team has to buy their own equipment, and our equivalent to "referees" (seeing as how we don't really have rules), as well as scorekeepers and timekeepers, are to be picked from the crowd, or "hired" by the team. Ten minute halves, with five minute halftimes, unless there was any kind of "half time show". At the end of every "season" (fifteen games, two for each team, and one randomized game at the end of the season), there's a single-elimination tournament ("play-offs") that lasts a total of five or six days, and is based on end-of-season standings.
Finally, two days after the finals game, the MVP and runner-up have a draft to pick the two all-star teams, and have to play at the MVP's home court. Then, the MVP picks the eight best dunkers in the league, and they have a three-round, two-dunk showdown. With three judges scoring each dunk out of ten, and an unlimited amount of retries. Then, he picks the top four shooters in the league,a nd they participate in a two-round, twelve ball (nine regular, three money-ball, total of fifteen points) three-point shootout.
Also, there are new rules with fouls and such. Instead of instating foul shots into the game, we have a simple "AND-1 Foul" Rule. If a referee calls a foul while a player is in the process of shooting or making a shot, then an "AND-1" is called. Instead of simply sending them to the foul line, they receive the extra point. This call is ONLY made by referees. After the ref calls the foul, a thirty-second time-out is taken, and is not deducted from either team. However, if a foul is called by a ref, and the player doesn't make the shot, he is sent immediately to the foul line.
In essence, the whole league is basically an anarchy. The "leader(s)" of each team make up the league council, and they take a vote and decide what happens so far as league decisions. This helped end dictator-like decisions that the players and teams did not support.
Now, here's our schedule for the year:
GAME | HOME | AWAY |
01 | The Rev. | Blt. Train |
02 | BCB | T.R. |
03 | Arms. | The.R |
04 | Revolution | KALi4ÑA |
05 | Revolution | S.Pirates |
06 | Revolution | Swingspike |
07 | Jet-R | The-R |
08 | The.R | Arms. |
09 | Street.P | T.Revo |
10 | Bullet.T | Revolution |
11 | KALi4ÑA | Revolution |
12 | T.R | BCB |
13 | T.R. | Jet.R |
14 | Swingspike | The Revolution |
15 | The Revolution | Swingspike |
So, my personal projected look at it says we definitely won't have to worry about the BC Ballers. They're a joke to the league, like the Grizzlies or the Hornets. Who plays for them, anyway? Street Pirates don't look TOO threatening, but I've never played against some of the people there before, so who knows? I don't even think KALi4ÑA will even show up, seeing as how they only have four players so far. Armstrong is a genuinely nice team, Bullet Train we have experience with, as we do with Swingspike. Jetrunners seem to be a bunch of sophisticated players, who really don't use moves. Players like the leader Brian "Jet" Lawrence, Zach "Squints" Groover, and Brandon "BB" Barnes. Hell, I didn't even know they played ball.
One great thing about this scheduling is that it doesn't consist of specific dates, simply game numbers. You can play them whenever you want, you just have to follow the rules: (a) the home team HAS to make sure the other team knows about the game at least a day beforehand, and (b) you can't move to the next game before playing one. For example, you can't move to games 3-15 before playing game 2. Although, if the visiting team goes three days without word from the home team, they must contact them. If a team doesn't show up for a game, there is not a sufficient amount of players, the home team is unreachable, etc., the game is counted as a loss for the home team. It is ALWAYS the home team's responsibility to set up games.
So, this sounds like fun. Seeing as how school lets out in a couple days, and I'm going to Los Angeles on Saturday, I won't be playing any games soon. But, as soon as I get back, I have a feeling that I'll be playing a game within a day of getting home.
"Get online and go to chat room 'Brown County SBA', immediately." It sounded like Logan "The Punisher" Snider, but before I could ask any questions, he hung up, and I was forced to follow his not-so-pleasant commands.
After a quite extensive conversation with a little more than a half dozen Brown County players, I found out some more news: there is now a streetball "league" in Brown County. Dubbed, so cleverly, the Brown County Street Ball League.
There was a surprising amount of new teams. There was, of course, The Revolution, Team Bullet Train, and Swingspike. But, overnight, the following had come out of the dark: "Armstrong", balling out of the Sprunica Elementary Courts; the "BC Ballas", the cleverly-named team of yuppies that played at Artist's Drive Park; "Jetrunner", from the Helmsburg Elementary School district; "Street Pirates", some "gangster ballas" from the Cordry-Sweetwater Beach area; and finally, "KALi4ÑA", who claimed the Van Buren Elementary School ball-courts as their home.
In case you're wondering, yes, we do have four elementary schools in the county, each one set in different sections of the county. Helmsburg, Sprunica, and Van Buren are all out of the base town, Nashville, and are spread in different areas of the county, while Nashville E. is found right in the dead center. Also, there was the rich Cordry-Sweetwater area, right on a large lake that had a beach. Right outside the beach, there are two courts: one with regulation goals, and another with BCSBL "regulation" goals. There's the Artist's Drive courts, where the "BC Ballas" get to play while their parents buy them mountains of useless crap, and they get to act like they're "all-that". Personally, I feel they're too young to play in the league, seeing as how nobody above the age of twelve is going to be participating on their team. And finally, the newest addition to the Brown County High School was "Eagle Park", an area about a mile from the actual school building, which was made for cross-country, baseball, and softball. But, fortunately, they also added three courts, each with changeable rim heights. This is where, despite their loss of Deer Run to us, Swingspike found a place to reside (NOTE: Our high school team is the "Brown County Eagles", hence "Eagle Park").
So, yes, we're officially starting a "league", now. Schedules and everything. Each team has to buy their own equipment, and our equivalent to "referees" (seeing as how we don't really have rules), as well as scorekeepers and timekeepers, are to be picked from the crowd, or "hired" by the team. Ten minute halves, with five minute halftimes, unless there was any kind of "half time show". At the end of every "season" (fifteen games, two for each team, and one randomized game at the end of the season), there's a single-elimination tournament ("play-offs") that lasts a total of five or six days, and is based on end-of-season standings.
Finally, two days after the finals game, the MVP and runner-up have a draft to pick the two all-star teams, and have to play at the MVP's home court. Then, the MVP picks the eight best dunkers in the league, and they have a three-round, two-dunk showdown. With three judges scoring each dunk out of ten, and an unlimited amount of retries. Then, he picks the top four shooters in the league,a nd they participate in a two-round, twelve ball (nine regular, three money-ball, total of fifteen points) three-point shootout.
Also, there are new rules with fouls and such. Instead of instating foul shots into the game, we have a simple "AND-1 Foul" Rule. If a referee calls a foul while a player is in the process of shooting or making a shot, then an "AND-1" is called. Instead of simply sending them to the foul line, they receive the extra point. This call is ONLY made by referees. After the ref calls the foul, a thirty-second time-out is taken, and is not deducted from either team. However, if a foul is called by a ref, and the player doesn't make the shot, he is sent immediately to the foul line.
In essence, the whole league is basically an anarchy. The "leader(s)" of each team make up the league council, and they take a vote and decide what happens so far as league decisions. This helped end dictator-like decisions that the players and teams did not support.
Now, here's our schedule for the year:
GAME | HOME | AWAY |
01 | The Rev. | Blt. Train |
02 | BCB | T.R. |
03 | Arms. | The.R |
04 | Revolution | KALi4ÑA |
05 | Revolution | S.Pirates |
06 | Revolution | Swingspike |
07 | Jet-R | The-R |
08 | The.R | Arms. |
09 | Street.P | T.Revo |
10 | Bullet.T | Revolution |
11 | KALi4ÑA | Revolution |
12 | T.R | BCB |
13 | T.R. | Jet.R |
14 | Swingspike | The Revolution |
15 | The Revolution | Swingspike |
So, my personal projected look at it says we definitely won't have to worry about the BC Ballers. They're a joke to the league, like the Grizzlies or the Hornets. Who plays for them, anyway? Street Pirates don't look TOO threatening, but I've never played against some of the people there before, so who knows? I don't even think KALi4ÑA will even show up, seeing as how they only have four players so far. Armstrong is a genuinely nice team, Bullet Train we have experience with, as we do with Swingspike. Jetrunners seem to be a bunch of sophisticated players, who really don't use moves. Players like the leader Brian "Jet" Lawrence, Zach "Squints" Groover, and Brandon "BB" Barnes. Hell, I didn't even know they played ball.
One great thing about this scheduling is that it doesn't consist of specific dates, simply game numbers. You can play them whenever you want, you just have to follow the rules: (a) the home team HAS to make sure the other team knows about the game at least a day beforehand, and (b) you can't move to the next game before playing one. For example, you can't move to games 3-15 before playing game 2. Although, if the visiting team goes three days without word from the home team, they must contact them. If a team doesn't show up for a game, there is not a sufficient amount of players, the home team is unreachable, etc., the game is counted as a loss for the home team. It is ALWAYS the home team's responsibility to set up games.
So, this sounds like fun. Seeing as how school lets out in a couple days, and I'm going to Los Angeles on Saturday, I won't be playing any games soon. But, as soon as I get back, I have a feeling that I'll be playing a game within a day of getting home.
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