Program2023

TOURNAMENT

PROGRAM

2023

Georgia Southern

University

WELCOME

to the 2023 NIRSA Flag Football

Regional Championship - brought

to you by NFL Flag

We’re excited to host you here at Georgia

Southern University

Quick Hits

All games will be played at MC Anderson Park.

Remember your sportsmanship and enjoy the competition.

RAC Front Desk - (912) 478-5436

Tournament Director

Britton Lyon (402) 269-5324

@GSIntramurals

Tournament Website - cri.gs/nirsaﬂag

GeorgiaSouthern.edu/CRI

Recreation Activity Center

Welcome to the Recreation Activity Center

(RAC) at Georgia Southern University!

While you are a guest in our facility, it is our goal to provide you with an

enjoyable tournament experience. Our courteous staﬀ is available to assist you

with any questions that you may have while visiting our facility. We hope you

enjoy your visit to the Georgia Southern University campus this weekend!

Please take a moment to review our policies regarding

facility and patron expectations below.

• All participants and spectators are required to enter and exit the facility

through the appropriate entrance and exit gates.

• Be aware that our facilities are open for student recreational use during the

tournament, and please respect open recreation areas.

• For your safety, personal items are not to be le unattended on or around

the ﬁelds. CRI is not responsible for lost or stolen items.

• Food and drink is permitted in the lobby area only while inside the RAC.

CHAMPIONSHIP

FIELD

CRIBB

pavillion

Bleachers

Trash Cans

Water Coolers

FIELD LOCATIONS

RAC

Maps

Schedule

Friday, November 3

1:00 – 3:00 PM Oﬃcials‘ & Staﬀ Check-in RAC Lobby

2:30 PM Committee Staﬀ Meeting RAC Conference Room

3:00 - 6:00 PM Team Registration and Host Table Open RAC Lobby

3:00 PM All-Tournament Committee Meeting RAC Conference Room

3:00 - 7:00 PM Oﬃcials’ Clinic RAC Seminar Room

5:30 PM Captain’s Meeting MAC Gym

6:00 PM Dinner for Committee Staﬀ & Oﬃcials RAC Seminar Room

7:00 & 9:30 PM Pool Play Games RAC Multiplex

Saturday, November 4

6:30 – 7:45 AM Breakfast for Staﬀ (at hotel) Holiday Inn Express

7:45 AM Oﬃcial’s Meeting Pavillion

8:30 AM Staﬀ Photos MP Field 4

9:00 AM Pool Play Games Resume RAC Fields

12:45 PM Lunch Pavilion

3:15 PM Men’s/Women’s/Co-Rec Draws Tournament Central

3:45 PM Championship Play Begins RAC Fields

7:00 PM Dinner Pavilion

8:30 PM Staﬀ Social Gnat’s Landing

*Shuttles will be provided from 8:00 PM - 11:30 PM to and from Hotel

and Gnat’s

Sunday, November 5

6:30 – 7:45 AM Breakfast for Staﬀ (at hotel) Holiday Inn Express

8:00 AM Oﬃcials’ Meeting Pavilion

9:00 AM Championship Play Resumes RAC Fields

12:00 PM Lunch (no scheduled break) Pavilion

10:30 AM Women‘s Championship Game North Field

12:00 PM Men’s Championship Game North Field

1:30 PM Co-Rec Championship Game North Field

*Team awards will be given directly aer their respective championship

games

*Oﬃcial’s Awards will be given aer the Co-Rec’s championship game

Men’s division

-Pool a-

GS - 2EZ

North AL

The Knights

-Pool b-

NSU

GS - Back that Pass Up

Future Daddy’s

-Pool C-

ECU

Kennesaw

Pumas

-Pool d-

UGA

GS - Armstrong

Tampa

-Pool D-

Future Mommy’s

GSU - ADPi

Florida A&M

UGA

UCF

-pool e-

UGA

High Point

GS - Tide

GS - Southern Storm

Women’s division

Co-REC division

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

University of South Florida

UMD

Georgia Tech

University of Central Florida

Middle Georgia University

Mercer University

Kennesaw State University

Georgia State University

Georgia College & State University

Florida Gulf Coast University

Auburn University

Georgia Tech

University of Central Florida

University of Florida

Georgia Southern University

Travis Tyimok

Thomas van Dijk

Fauz Adeyinka

Nyiel Graham

Leigh Anna Johnson

Isabella Price

Narvin Barney

Lanai Coleman

Broderick Workman

Jordan Galloway

Braxton Vinson

Brice Phillips

Jacob Golden

Dylan McMillion

Jacob Neuman

Dawson Lane

Sruthi Chatrathi

Dianna Choque

Damon Pham

Logan Curtin

Troy James Felton

Christopher Galvin-Wright

Dawson Sanders

DeJonTae Robertson

Jonathan Nuhu

Donovan Finch

Officials

Friday, November 3

1:00 – 3:00 PM Oﬃcials‘ & Staﬀ Check-in RAC Lobby

2:30 PM Committee Staﬀ Meeting RAC Conference Room

3:00 - 6:00 PM Team Registration and Host Table Open RAC Lobby

3:00 PM All-Tournament Committee Meeting RAC Conference Room

3:00 - 7:00 PM Oﬃcials’ Clinic RAC Seminar Room

5:30 PM Captain’s Meeting MAC Gym

6:00 PM Dinner for Committee Staﬀ & Oﬃcials RAC Seminar Room

7:00 & 9:30 PM Pool Play Games RAC Multiplex

Saturday, November 4

6:30 – 7:45 AM Breakfast for Staﬀ (at hotel) Holiday Inn Express

7:45 AM Oﬃcial’s Meeting Pavillion

8:30 AM Staﬀ Photos MP Field 4

9:00 AM Pool Play Games Resume RAC Fields

12:45 PM Lunch Pavilion

3:15 PM Men’s/Women’s/Co-Rec Draws Tournament Central

3:45 PM Championship Play Begins RAC Fields

7:00 PM Dinner Pavilion

8:30 PM Staﬀ Social Gnat’s Landing

*Shuttles will be provided from 8:00 PM - 11:30 PM to and from Hotel

and Gnat’s

Sunday, November 5

6:30 – 7:45 AM Breakfast for Staﬀ (at hotel) Holiday Inn Express

8:00 AM Oﬃcials’ Meeting Pavilion

9:00 AM Championship Play Resumes RAC Fields

12:00 PM Lunch (no scheduled break) Pavilion

10:30 AM Women‘s Championship Game North Field

12:00 PM Men’s Championship Game North Field

1:30 PM Co-Rec Championship Game North Field

*Team awards will be given directly aer their respective championship

games

*Oﬃcial’s Awards will be given aer the Co-Rec’s championship game

Host Staff

Brittany Mueller

Nolan Baugh

Brenna Worthham

Ben Hayes

Carter Kittrell

Samantha O’Brien

Joaquin Guzman

Kaitlyn Hannigan

Britton Lyon

Klee Sellers

Katelyn Gil

Brendan Fowler

Siusie Dawson

Jeremy Wilburn

Kiersten Kuhlman

Erica Sales

Mitchell Minehart

Gene Sherry

Gena Caskey

Jacob Jones

Alex Pettola

Sarah Ortic

Adam Minnick

Danny Kandell

Emilee Howard

John McNeal

Juan Carlos Diaz II

Kelly Salomon

Brenn Simmons

Hunter Hoover

Florida State University

Georgia College and State Universirt

Kennesaw State University

Georgia Tech

Middle Georgia State University

Emory University

University of Kentucky

Georgia State University

Georgia Southern University

UNC-Charlotte

Mercer University

University of South Florida

University of North Georgia

University of Florida

University of Central Florida

Mississippi State University

University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Auburn University

University of Tennessee - Knoxville

University of Mississippi

-All Tournament Committee-

-host Committee-

-OPERATIONS Committee-

-Officials Committee-

Athletic Training Services

ARE SNACKS GOING TO BE PROVIDED?????

Athletic training services available during the NIRSA Flag Football

Regional Tournaments are provided courtesy of the Injury Prevention

& Care (IPC) program at Campus Recreation & Intramurals (CRI).

Services for tournament participants are free of charge and include:

• First Aid & On-Site Injury Response

• Emergency Care

• Preventative Taping (please arrive early for taping)

For more information, visit the Injury Prevention & Care Staﬀ next to

Tournament Central located across from Tournament Central.

Kiersten Kuhlman, LAT, ATC

Snacks and refreshments are available for purchase

inside the RAC at vending machines near the

Equipment Checkout Desk.

Lunch will be provided on Saturday and Sunday, and Dinner will be

provided on Friday and Saturday.

Please be sure to thank our sponsors by supporting them if

you choose to eat in town. Thanks!

Tournament Rules

CONDUCT OF PLAYERS, COACHES, & SPECTATORS

1. Coaches, captains, or playing captains are responsible for the action of their team and for any

spectators directly related to the team before, during, and aer the game.

2. A coach may only enter the playing area to attend to an injured player.

3. Any player or coach who acts in a manner not showing good sportsmanship shall be penalized

with a technical foul and possible ejection from the game. The oﬃcial(s) shall have the authority

to warn, penalize, or disqualify any player(s), substitute, or coach for violations of sportsmanship

including, but not limited to the following:

A. Disrespectfully addressing an oﬃcial or IM staﬀ member.

B. Questioning the oﬃcial’s judgment or decisions.

C. Showing disgust with oﬃcial’s decisions.

D. Using profane or insulting language or gestures toward an oﬃcial/opponent.

E. Baiting or taunting players of the opposing team.

F. Disrupting the game so that it may not be continued in an orderly fashion.

4. Any player/team that is disqualiﬁed / ejected from a game for unsportsmanlike behavior must

meet with the Tournament Director prior to be reinstated to play.

5. Players and team which accrue a number of unsportsmanlike conduct fouls will be disqualiﬁed

from games and/or suspended from further participation as follows:

A. Each receives 2 unsportsmanlike conduct fouls or a ﬂagrant foul

Penalty: Disqualiﬁcation from that game, suspension from the team’s next game played, and

probation for remainder of the tournament

B. A player/coach receives 3 unsportsmanlike conduct/ﬂagrant fouls during the tournament

Penalty: Disqualiﬁcation from that game and suspension from participating for the remainder of

the tournament

C. One team receives 4 unsportsmanlike conduct/ﬂagrant fouls during a game

Penalty: The team forfeits the game and probation for the remainder of the tournament. The

team captain must meet with the Tournament Director to determine the team’s eligibility for the

remainder of the tournament. The score of the contest will be recorded as 2-0 or as the actual

point diﬀerential, whichever greater beneﬁts the winning team.

D. One team receives 5 unsportsmanlike conduct/ﬂagrant fouls during the tournament

Penalty: The team is dropped from the tournament

E. Ejection from a game due to ﬁghting; each player/coach will receive 2 unsportsmanlike conduct

fouls for the game

Penalty: Disqualiﬁcation from that game, suspension from the team’s next two (2) games played,

and probation for the remainder of the tournament.

Note: Player may be suspended for the remainder of the tournament.

Protest Procedure

RULE INTERPRETATIONS

Protests involving a misapplication or misinterpretation of a rule will be considered, but judgment

calls will not receive any consideration.

• A player, directed by the team captain/coach may request and be granted a time-out for the

purpose of the team captain/coach and the game oﬃcials reviewing a decision, which may have

resulted from misapplication or misinterpretation of a rule.

• Such requests must be made upon gaining possession or during any dead ball period and must

occur no later than during the ﬁrst dead ball aer the clock has been properly started following

the play that is to be reviewed. If a period has oﬃcially ended, the request must be made before

the next period begins.

• When a time-out is granted, the game oﬃcial will confer with both team captains/coaches in

front of the scorer’s table. The captain/coach will inform the oﬃcials that he/she would like to

protest and state speciﬁcally the “correctable error” that he/she believes has been made. If the

oﬃcials agree a protest is valid, the Director of Oﬃcials and the Oﬃcials’ Committee Staﬀ

member on that court will be called upon to make a ﬁnal decision.

• If the error is correctable, the error will be corrected and the protesting team will not be

charged a timeout. If the error is not correctable, the protesting team will be charged with a

timeout. NOTE: If a team has no timeouts remaining, the protesting team will be charged with a

technical foul.

• All decisions made by the Oﬃcials’ Committee will be ﬁnal.

ELIGIBILITY

• Protests concerning player eligibility must be made to the Tournament Staﬀ or game oﬃcials

immediately upon discovering there is an eligibility issue.

• The Tournament Staﬀ will assume responsibility for investigation of the eligibilty of all

participants upon request.

• An ineligible player is any person who does not meet the NIRSA eligibility requirements and/or

whose name and identiﬁcation number does not appear on the team’s roster.

• All participants must present a valid picture ID card prior to each game they are scheduled to

play. If an individual in question cannot provide valid identiﬁcation, then he/she will not be

allowed to particiapte in that particular game.

• Any person participating in the tournament found to be ineligible will be suspended from the

tournament.

• Any team using an ineligible player shall forfeit ALL games in which the ineligible player

participated. NOTE: If this occurs during pool play, teams that may have lost to the said team

will be awarded a win. If this occurs during single-elimination play, teams that have already been

eliminated will not advance in the tournament.

• A player competing under an assumed name and his/her team will be suspended from the

tournament for the remainder of the tournament.

• All teams using ineligible players will be reported to their respective institutions and NIRSA.

Pool Play Tie-Breaker Procedure

The Championship Playoﬀs are determined by the following criteria:

Teams will be placed in three-team or four-team pools. Each team will be scheduled for 2 pool play

games.

The top 2 teams from each three-team pool will advance to the single-elimination Championship

Playoﬀs. The top 3 teams from each four-team pool will advance to the single-elimination

Championship Playoﬀs. NOTE: Mercy rule will be in eﬀect during pool play and all subsequent

games.

Tie-Breaker for 4-Team Pools

1. One team will have a record of 2-0 and will be the team that ﬁnishes ﬁrst in the pool.

2. There will be a two-way tie between two teams with records of 1-1.

A. The team that won the ﬁrst game will ﬁnish second in the pool.

B. The team that lost the ﬁrst game will ﬁnish third in the pool.

Tie-Breaker for 3-Team Pools

1. If a three-way tie exists, it will be decided as follows:

A. Forfeit - A team that forfeits is dropped to the lowest possible play among the three tied

teams.

B. The diﬀerence between total points scored versus total points allowed (point diﬀerential)

will determine the order of ﬁnish.

For example: A defeated B, 7-0; B defeated C, 7-6; and C defeated A, 13-6.

Team A Team B Team C

7 0 0 7 6 7

6 13 7 6 13 6

13 13 7 13 19 13

Diﬀ = 0 Diﬀ = -6 Diﬀ = +6

Thus Team C ﬁnishes in ﬁrst place, Team A ﬁnishes in second place, and Team B does not

qualify.

C. If two teams have the same point diﬀerential, then who beat whom in head-to-head

competition will determine playoﬀ placement.

D. If all three teams have the same point diﬀerential, then the total points scored will

determine playoﬀ placement.

E. If two teams have scored the same number of points, then who beat whom in head-to-head

competition will determine the playoﬀ placement.

F. If all three or four teams have scored the same number of points, then the fewest points

allowed will determine the playoﬀ placement.

G. If two teams have allowed the same number of points, then who beat whom in head-to-head

competition will determine playoﬀ placement.

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