Wildcard Coaches Meeting and Seeding Conference Call
Wednesday February 18 at 8:00 pm

Seeding Guidelines

Conference Call Goal

To review Coach and Team Responsibilities
and to fairly and transparently seed our 8 Wildcard teams.

Conducting the Conference call.

1. A Zoom Link will be emailed to you by 7:00 pm.

2. We start with Coach and Team Responsibilities and move into the Seeding part of the meeting.

3. The Senior Provincials and Junior Invitationals are seeded by a committee.  We are the only Tournament that provides open and transparent participation for seeding with a Coach’s Meeting and Seeding Conference Call.  We believe that Coaches (especially new Coaches) should experience the challenges seeding presents (at least one time).  Patience will be required.

4. Please ensure that you are set up for Zoom and ready to go.  This call is not a training session.  It can be unduly long if we are distracted.  Making your call from a private area where there is no background noise is best, and please use MUTE unless you are speaking. (Also, clothes are important – we have all heard Zoom stories).

5. Rob & Michael or Caley will be the moderators and will break ties if we get bogged down.

6. We will be having 8 Head Coaches plus assistants online, only the Head Coach or designee is allowed to speak.  You may connect 1 Assistant Coach, but they have “observer” status only, they are not allowed to participate.

7. Your team record will be critical for this conference call.

8. Conference call etiquette is pretty basic.
  – One person speaking at a time. Identify yourself by only school name first, and then speak after the Moderator gives you the “floor”.
  – Be brief and to the point.

9. We typically get this Seeding Conf Call done within 45 – 60 minutes, please allow enough time.

Conducting the Seeding

10. Seeding takes into account many factors including your win/loss record, strength of schedule, exhibition vs league vs playoff, early vs late season games and zone and common opponents.  Example: If you beat the Zone Champion 3 times during the season but stumble during the playoffs then you are a lower seed, you didn’t come through when it counted in the playoffs.

11. In an attempt to streamline the process, a draft seeding proposal has been prepared for discussion.  This is presented as a framework to help guide this process but this is by no means final, it is a draft.

12. Decisions are reached by consensus however the Moderators decide a deadlock.

13. Your team will not be seeded until the higher seed from your zone is seeded.

14. Once agreement has been reached on Seeds 1 – 8, adjustments may be made based on requests for travel considerations.

15. Teams from the same zone are kept away from each other in opening round.

16. Once agreement on any adjustments are completed, then a review of team start times will be considered.

17. Both teams will have a minimum of 3 hours between games times for player (and coach) rest.

Tournament Directors

Michael Pettifer — Caley Donaldson — TJ Cheema — Rob Slavik — Steve Pettifer — Kevin Sandher — Wes Lefsrud