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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

Hello, 

The 9th Annual Winter Bowl is going to take the field next weekend on Saturday, January 27th. We hit a new record of over 150 teams submitted, https://ocyouthsports.org/tournament/winter-bowl/teams/. At this point in time all teams have been built and rosters finalized. Anyone not placed on a team will receive a refund next week. Here are some updates to prepare:

No Promoting/Solicitation: As a friendly reminder, there is zero tolerance for promoting or soliciting unless an approved vendor or sponsor of OC Youth Sports. If you would like to become approved, you must contact us. If an individual, group, or organization is found doing this without approval, they will not be invited back to participate in our tournaments indefinitely.  

T-shirt Pick-Up: OC Youth Sports will be providing a ToC t-shirt for all players. We are currently building out each team’s bundles and will have it ready for pick-up by Wednesday. Coordinators and coaches, please be on the lookout for pick-up instructions/details this coming week.

Schedule: We understand everyone is waiting to see their game times and schedule for the Winter Bowl. Please understand, we are diligently working on building out the schedule in collaboration with the Great Park to make sure the event runs adequately. We hope to have the schedule released by next Tuesday, January 23rd. As a reminder, there are no schedule requests. Games will be played between the times of 8am-7pm. 

Have a great weekend!

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

Thu, Jan. 27th, 2022

Winter Bowl Schedule and Game Day Info

We are excited to announce that the schedule for the Winter Bowl on Jan 29th is now live! View here: https://ocyouthsports.org/tournament/winter-bowl/schedules

Important: Schedules are divided into a friendly game (game 1) in the “Schedule” section above the bracket. The second and additional games are single elimination bracket play with winners advancing. Please make sure to check the schedule as several teams have two (2) friendly games in divisions with an odd number of teams.

Please note that there are no schedule requests or changes.

Great Park Fields

Address: 6990 Marine Way, Irvine, CA 92618
Map of the OC Great Park
Each field has multiple smaller fields denoted with A, B, and C . Games will be played on fields 19–24 and the closest parking is Lot 4. Additional parking can also be found at Lot 3 and Lot 5.

Game Day Equipment: If your school has their own flags we strongly encourage them to use your own flags.

  1. Mouthguards are required!
  2. For those schools who are not using their own flags, flags can be found at each field. Do not take your belts to the next field.

Game Day Shirts

OC Youth Sports Tournament of Champions Shirts: Your coordinator or coach should have your team’s shirts for distribution on game day.

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)

Thur, Jan. 20th, 2022

Winter Bowl Update 2

By now all teams have been built and fully rostered. You can find your team by logging in to TeamSnap. The code for the team is gender,grade,team number – School name – Coaches Last Name (B boys, G girls or C CoEd)
Ex: C73 – Rancho San Joquin – Hackett or CoEd 7th grade team

Please do not change the name of your teams

Any players that are still on School Name – Registered are not currently on a team.

If you are still on the School Name – Registered team and know you made your school team please reach out to your coordinator or coach to make sure they submit their team immediately as team registrations were supposed to be submitted by January 16th.

Players that are not placed on a team will receive a full refund after the event. We will go through each School Name – Registered team and issue a refund directly. We ask for your patience as our main priority is to focus on the event.

T-Shirts – We will reach out with an update regarding shirts closer to the event. Each team will receive an official white Tournament of Champions T-Shirt to be worn by the home team of each game.

Away teams are required to bring their own T-Shirts. We suggest using the school PE T-Shirt or school color as your team shirt. Each team may choose its own color if they would like but it must be the same for the entire team. You do not need to notify us of your color.

Home – White ToC Shirt

Away – Team’s Shirt color (not white)

Schedule – Schedule details will come out closer to the event. There are no schedule requests. The structure of the tournament will be 1 friendly exhibition game followed by single elimination bracket play. For coaches with multiple teams we will try to ensure that games do not take place at the same time.

Tue, Jan. 11th, 2022

Welcome to Winter Bowl

Thank you for registering for the 2022 Winter Bowl!

By now all schools should have had or should be having tryouts this week. As a reminder, Team Submissions are Jan. 14th–16th.

If nobody has been communicating with 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 Alderwood are on team Alderwood – Registered).

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.

If your school does not have a coordinator and you would like to volunteer, please fill out this form: https://ocyouthsports.org/tournament/volunteer

We look forward to the first event of the 2022 Tournament of Champions.