The whole thing started in 2009 as the result of a gchat between me and my co-founder, Meg. When you live in Chapel Hill with an impressive group of alumni friends, it's kind of important to create new ridiculosity instead of reliving your glory days. In short, we decided that throwing the greatest kickball tournament ever (hence the name) would be the kind of stuff legends are made of...
And it was...
After months of planning and thousands of dollars invested in our one day debacle, we had to build up the enthusiasm with a pep rally at He's Not Here. Teams came to size up the competition and talk some smack to their opposition. Hybrid South was playing some rockin' Stones covers and the Founders made a guest appearance on their stage.
Game day: Sunday, June 6, 2010.
A day that will live in ballerdom.
115 participants
20 cases
7 teams
6 games
3 bottles of champagne
2 Founders
1 keg
The winner: It was a close game, but Slow Your Roll beat the Townies. Congratulations Slow Your Roll for being the GKbTE! 2010 champs!
We finished up the day with an after pool party and ended up at IP3's. Yes, it's what you think it is.
Special thanks to Jared & Dan for being excellent Umpires! It was a tough application, but they impressed the Founders and were the right men for the job.
Abbreviated Rules & Regulations:
1. Drink in hand at ALL TIMES while playing.
2. Shots at 2nd base
3. If the drink gets knocked out of hand, the player must do a kegstand at 2nd base.
4. Regulation kickball rules apply.
5. If a teams wants to be eligible to bunt, they team must bring a bunt cake to share with the group. Otherwise, no bunting.
6. In the event of a tie, the teams will each select a player to represent the team in a chug run. At the referee’s command, each player will have to chug a drink then run the bases, making sure to stop at second base and dress in the provided super duper extra large clothing. The team whose player to returns to home base advances to the next round.
a. In the event of a tie during the chug run, a round of rock, paper, scissors will determine the winning team. Best 2 out of 3. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.
7. If the kicking team is more than 5 runs ahead of the outfield team, the dizzy bat rule will be instated. Each kicker must do 5 dizzy bat spins prior to kicking (3 additional spins after 1st or 2nd strike).
a. The entire championship game will be played with dizzy bat rules.
8. Don’t be a douche.
9. The penalty circle (hula hoop) may be used at the discretion of the referees with respect to violations of Rule 8.
9. Founder Rule: Whoever founds the game makes the rules. Meg and Becky can make up their own rules at any time.
10. If a participant of The GKbTE! pronounces, “This is the Greatest Kickball Tournament Ever!” then all players must pause, cheers, and drink after repeating, “This is the Greatest Kickball Tournament Ever!”
Meg & I are very proud to have a small profit which we are donating to the N.C. Children's Promise. It's been so much fun to see this tournament grow over the past 3 tourneys and see the turnout get bigger and bigger. The GKbTE! has brought more people together than when Gerald Henderson punched Tyler Hansbrough in the nose. We're about building communities, helping children, and goofing off on Sunday afternoons.
It's only going to get bigger and more baller from here.
Epic. Where do we Raleighwood kids sign up to join you next time in the fundraising and revelry?
ReplyDeleteI confess that rule #5 is my personal favorite. Who knew that cake was involved? Clever.
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