Winter Bowl Updates

The 2024 Winter Bowl is tomorrow Saturday, January 27th at the Orange County Great Park. Several final reminders for the event.

• Games will take place on fields 14 and 15 and 19-24. Suggested parking is in Lot 4 for fields 19-24, and Lot 3 for fields 14-15. If parking becomes impacted Lot 5 and Lot 2 are additional options with a little longer walk. Please give yourself additional time to find parking, as there are multiple tournaments taking place at the complex tomorrow.

• Cleats are optional, but strongly suggested. No metal cleats are allowed.

• All players must wear a mouthguard. Mouthguards can be purchased at the information tents, located near Fields 15, 22 and 24.

• Flag belts will be provided at each field. Teams must leave their flags at the field when done, even if playing another game immediately after, unless playing on the same field.

• Away teams are required to bring their own t-shirts. Please be aware that all teams may eventually end up as an away team at some point in the tournament. We suggest using your school’s P.E. shirt, or your school’s color as a team shirt. Each team may choose its own color, but all players must wear the same color shirt.

  • Home Team – White ToC shirt

  • Away – Color Team Shirt (anything but white)

• Similar to the Harvest Cup each team will play a friendly game, before beginning elimination play. Some teams may find themselves with two friendly games to start if there are an uneven amount of teams in a division, so please be sure to check your schedule.

• Players may only play for one team in the tournament. They may not play at multiple grade levels, or for both an A and B team.

Hello,

We are excited to take the field this weekend! The 2024 Winter Bowl will be taking place Saturday, January 27th at the Great Park of Irvine.

Winter Bowl Schedule: https://ocyouthsports.org/tournament/winter-bowl/schedules/ (Search team by selecting your division and school)

Brackets can be found at the bottom of your division’s schedule.

How to view your brackets on mobile: At the bottom of the schedule is a section labeled Brackets. There is a button (small black box with arrows pointed towards the corners) to click on to expand it to full screen above the standings section.

Location: The Great Park of Irvine
Address: 8000 Great Park Blvd, Irvine, CA 92618
Please note for those that play Matt Leinart Flag Football on Friday nights, the Winter Bowl takes place on fields 14-24, which is on the other side of the park, near the soccer stadium.

Several Reminders:

• Some teams will play two friendly games, so make sure to check the schedule
• Flags will be at each field. It’s important that teams leave their flags in the middle of the field after each game, even if playing on another field immediately after a game. If using your own flags, we suggest labeling them, so if the players take them off they are not accidentally collected by another team.
• Teams supply their own balls. Sizes: 
  • 3rd – 4th Grade ALL: Pee-wee
  • 5th-6th Grade GIRLS: Pee-wee
  • 5th-8th Grade BOYS: Junior
  • 7th-8th Grade GIRLS: Junior
• Mouthguards are required, and can be purchased at the information tents located near Field 23 and Field 15. Cleats are highly recommended, but not required.
• Food trucks will be on site in parking Lot 4.

Best Regards,
OC Youth Sports

Hello Coordinators and Coaches,

T-shirt bundles will be available for pickup tomorrow, Wednesday, January 24th between 11:00AM and 7:00PM. Please note that T-Shirt pickup is by SCHOOL ONLY, we will not be distributing to individual teams so please coordinate with your school/coordinator to see who will be taking up this responsibility. This can be a coordinator, coach, or team parent. We would recommend sending a representative that can confirm your school’s rosters/teams.

Pickup Details:

Address: 12 Mauchly Ste P Irvine 92618
*Pick-Up will be located in the back warehouse

Hours: 11:00AM – 7:00PM

Days: Wednesday, January 24th

Away teams are required to bring their own t-shirts. Please be aware that all teams may end up as an away team at some point in the tournament. We suggest using your school’s P.E. t-shirt or your school’s color as your team shirt. Each team may choose its own color, but all players must wear that same color shirt. You do not need to notify us of your color.

Home – White ToC shirt

Away – Color team shirt (anything but white)

Tournament Format: Each team has been placed in a bracket based on team submission order and division. Teams are guaranteed two games (friendly and first single elimination game).

Best Regards,
OC Youth Sports

Hi Coordinator and Coaches,

It has come to our attention that there are schools that player availability changes for the Winter Bowl due to the rescheduling of the state cup tournament. We have made an executive decision to reopen the Winter Bowl registration for these players that would like to be added to an existing team at their school. The registration will be open until 11:59PM tomorrow Tuesday, January 23rd. 

2024 Winter Bowl Registration

Please communicate this to any interested players that would like to be added to an existing team at your school. They have until the end of tomorrow to register. We will not be adding any new teams, just adding players to teams that were previously submitted. Once the new players are registered, coordinators or coaches please email us at [email protected] with the name of the new registrants that needed to be added with the name of the team they needed to be added to. Inform parents, we need coordinator or coach confirmation to add players to a team. Parents should not be sending in requests to have their child added. Also with t-shirt bundles already being built, new registrants may not receive a t-shirt as they were not added into the team bundle in time. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.

We hope to get the schedule sent out by the end of tomorrow and be on the lookout for t-shirt bundle pick-up details happening Thursday, January 25th.

Best Regards,
OC Youth Sports

Thank you for registering for the 2024 Winter Bowl!

By now all schools should have had or should be having tryouts this coming week. As a reminder, Teams must be submitted by 11:59pm Friday, January 12th. As a reminder, once teams are submitted players will no longer be eligible for a refund if they back out. We strongly encourage each school to verify rosters before having your coordinator or coach submit teams. If these are a concern or issue, please reach out to us as soon as possible.

Once rosters are finalized and submitted by your coordinator or coach, OC Youth Sports will build and roster teams in TeamSnap and place them in their appropriate division. All teams must have a coach to be eligible.

If nobody has been communicating with you from your school, please check your TeamSnap account for your team. Each player is automatically placed on a school team after registering (e.g.: all players from Vista Verde are on team Vista Verde – Winter Bowl).

At the bottom of each team is the non-player volunteers, which has the coordinators and coaches that have filled out the volunteer form on our website. We wish your family a wonderful holiday season!

Best Regards,

OC Youth Sports