Tournament season is a more competitive season which includes traveling to tournaments of the coaches choice to compete in youth basketball tournaments hosted by schools, clubs, or organizations! 

 

• Any boy or girl in 3rd through 6th grade is welcome to be considered for the tournament season.
• This will be more competitive in nature and is designed to allow more advanced players in each grade the opportunity to compete against other higher level teams in tournament play.
• Travel will be required to other communities and schools.
• Playing time during tournament season is not guaranteed to be equal.
• Tournament season requires fees to cover entry fees for each tournament - costs vary depending on number of tournaments entered by each team

 

• The tournament season may look like any of the options below.

 

• The Board of the Blue Jay Basketball Club will determine which way is the best for each individual grade level based on number of players who want to be considered for tournament season, number of coaches, and current skill level of those who would like to be considered for tournament season. Just because one of these ways is chosen for one year does NOT mean the same way will be chosen in each subsequent year. The Board will make that decision each year.

 

Potential Tournament Season Team Options

1) Just have one tournament team for a grade level. This would be the case if there aren't enough players to make more than one team or the current skill level of some members aren't ready to rotate into tournament play.

2) Have 2 teams and the current skill level of the top kids in the grade are VASTLY superior to the current bottom kids in the grade.

• • In this scenario, all of the kids in the grade level will practice at the same time with all of the coaches present.
  • Approximately the top one-third of the grade level will always play in tournaments, the bottom one-third will always play in a league or lower level tournaments (selection helped by the Board) and the middle one-third will rotate between playing in tournaments and league.
  • This ranking will be determined by the Board and will be done each year - it will not carry over if this is the same way we do tournament teams in consecutive years for a grade level

3) Have 2 teams and the current skill level of all the kids wanting to be considered for the tournament season is relatively the same.

• • In this scenario, all of the kids in the grade level will practice at the same time with all of the coaches present.
  • The Board will pick 2 teams that are as equally split as possible.
  • These teams would play 4 tournaments separately and the Board would also pick an "A" team for these teams that will then play 2 more tournaments.
  • Again, there would be no carryover from year-to-year if this is the same way we do tournament teams in consecutive years for a grade level.

 

• In all of these scenarios, there may be some kids not selected to participate in the tournament season because of number of kids, number of coaches, or current skill level.

 

• There is an even bigger emphasis on sportsmanship as we will be representing Bondurant-Farrar to other communities around the state at the tournaments we play in.