THE CONVENTION REPOIRRE-everything you need to know in one thread

[WEIRDWOLF]

Convention Hotel
When: August 1-3
Where: Hampton Inn 1299 West High Avenue New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663 (330) 339-7000 (SOLD OUT)
Cost: $129.00 per room

United Way Event
Held in conjunction with the Pro Football's Ultimate Fans Association http://www.pfufa.org/ and the United Way.
When: Saturday, August 2, 1-4pm
Where: J Babe Stearn Community Center 2628 13th St SW Canton, OH 44710 http://www.babestearncenter.com/home


Donations for United Way Event
Corey Johnson, aka Prettyboy has taken charge of the gathering of donated prizes for the United Way event. Please help him out by contacting him and making a donation. These prizes need not be huge in nature. Even if all you have is a bag of older painted figures or pack of trading cards it will be happily accepted. Cash donations to purchase items are also accepted. Contact Corey at yizcorey@aim.com or call him at 610-587-7238.

If you are not attending the convention send donations to:
John Martin
364 Aspen Drive
Dover, Ohio 44622

2008 MFCA Convention Itinerary
Friday
Coaches begin arriving. Those arriving early are encouraged to visit the HOF this day as we have a full schedule.
11 am – 2pm: MFCA officers meeting to discuss finances, direction, events for weekend...annual organizational meeting.
7-8 pm: Welcome dinner held in conjunction with PFUFA at nearby Elks Lodge Banquet Hall.
8-8:30pm: Return to hotel for MFCA Welcomes and MFCA HOF awards.
8:30 pm-9:30 pm: MFCA HOF awards and MFCA Welcome Ceremony.
9:30 -? Coaches Challenge play begins. Skills contest and painting/custom contest opens. Vendor setup.

Saturday
6 am: Breakfast opens (free at hotel)
7 am: Continue coach check in for late arrivals.
8 am-11 am: Challenge continues, skills competition continues.
11 am – 12 pm: Travel to Canton. Lunch on own.
1-4 pm: United Way-PFUFA charity event (expect 500 kids and their parents.)
4-6 pm: Return to Hotel-Dinner on your own or you may attend the PFUFA Tailgate party for $5.00 beginning at 6:00
6-9 pm: Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony in Canton (Dean, Green, Monk, Thomas, Tippett, and Zimmerman)
6 pm: Continued Challenge play for those not attending the Enshrinement Ceremony.
10 pm-?: Continued Challenge play

Sunday
6 am: Breakfast opens (free at hotel)
9 am: Challenge play continues (lunch on own)
2 pm: Challenge closes. Awards handed out for skills and paint/custom competition and Challenge winners.
3 pm: Convention closes
3-? pm: Tailgate at the home of John Martin
8 pm: Hall of Fame Game. Washington vs Indianapolis


Coaches Points Challenge (CPC) Rules
To best explain the CPC you must first understand that the main goal of the MFCA Convention is to bring coaches together in fellowship, to have fun, to experience new ways of playing Miniature Football and promote the game and hobby of Miniature Football in all its amazing forms thus bringing us closer together in understanding and unity.

The CPC is not like the usual tournaments that we are all used to. From the moment you have completed your registration in the hotel lobby, up to 8 games played and attendance at the United Way will add points to your final total. The coach with the most points by 2:00 p.m. on Sunday is the MFCA Coaches Points Challenge Winner. In addition we will take the top 3 scorers from each region of the MFCA’s seven regions, combine their totals and the region with the highest score will take home the MFCA Region Travelling Team Trophy which will be engraved with their names and passed on from year to year.

The rules of the CPC are as follows.
Coaches may play up to a maximum of 8 official challenge games over the course of the weekend. These can be played at any time, day or night. Coaches are responsible for issuing challenges and finding opponents to play. They can begin scheduling these games at any time.The rules used in the game are determined by the two coaches. Any rules set or variation of that rules set or “house rules”can be used but all changes to the rules set must be agreed upon by both coaches prior to the kickoff of that game. The MFCA will provide rules books which will include the current most popular rules sets played today. An official representative of each of these rules sets will be in attendance and will answer any questions which may arise. Their rulings on any question will be final.

A “game” is defined as a minimum of at least 3 offensive series by each coach. The game may be played out to the full extent of the rules chosen rather then just the 3 offensive series but this must be predetermined and agreed to by both coaches before kickoff.
A sheet will be provided that must be signed by both coaches and one witness to the game. The information on this sheet must include:
The name of the two coaches
The length of the game. (3 offensive series or full game)
The rules set used (any agreed upon variations of the rules or “house rules” should be briefly noted)
The score
The name of the winner
The signature of each coach and the witness.
These sheets will be turned into a challenge official at the completion of the game.

Before agreeing to a game the coaches should agree on:
Length of the game
Rules set and any variations or “house rules”.
(Coaches should either have the equipment needed i.e. dividers, sticks, shaker box, etc or have access to that equipment before agreeing to a particular rules set) ( the MFCA will attempt to provide sets of equipment for use but cannot guarantee their availability)
Weight of the players: 4.0 is suggested as the maximum weight but heavier weighted teams may be used as long as both coaches are in agreement. It is the responsibility of each coach to inspect their opponent’s team prior to playing their game. Once a game has begun it is assumed that each coach’s equipment is accepted by the other coach.

Points will be awarded as follows.
10 points for win
-10 points for loss
Winner gets one point for each point scored by their team
An additional 20 points each will be awarded for each different rules set played under over the course of the weekend. I.e. Play your 8 games under 4 different rules sets you will get an additional 80 points added to your total
Participating in the United Way event = 100 points


Paint/Custom Contest
You do not need to be present to enter.
If you are not attending the convention, you may send your entry with a trusted friend or you can mail them to:
John Martin
364 Aspen Drive
Dover, Ohio 44622

If you are attending just bring your entry to the convention. There is NO limit on number of entries.

Rules: The same rules apply except that it will of course be a live event rather then photos and we will be allowing previously displayed work. This means that any work you have done past or present is eligible for this contest. For more rules info go to: http://www.miniaturefootball.org/sit...fm?pageID=1286

We will also have, along with the two catagories of "individual" and "scene", a "owners" catagory.

In the Owner's catagory you can display any work you have purchased. We only require that you give credit to those who produced the piece. Imagine, you could enter work by past greats such as Doc Smeby or Dirk Thomas in this catagory.

Our goal is to display the best of the best and look forward to a number of great entries.

Skills Contest
The following coaches qualified through regional events for the finals being held at the MFCA Convention.
Before the finals, there will be one more qualifier for ALL MFCA coaches who have not already qualified at previous events. This way anyone attending the convention has an oppotunity to compete in the skills competitions.

This includes coaches who may have qualified in one event and not in another. (i.e. Coach Joe Smoe qualified in passing but wants to try to qualify in kicking. He may attempt this at the convention.)

For skills contest rules go to: http://www.miniaturefootball.org/sit...fm?pageID=1269

Fastest Man – Will Travers, Adrian Baxter, Eric Robinson, Gerald Fulton, Ray Fanara, Matt Miller, Jim Davis, Will Shropshire

Fastest Man Enhanced – Keith Chalmers, Dave Campbell. Bryan Nutt, Ty Ware, Kevin Boddie, Jeff Priest

Strongest Man – Adrian Baxter, Eric Robinson, Flynt Hendricks, Tom Ruesink, Matt Miller, Jim Davis, Will Shropshire

Strongest Man Enhanced – Renee Smith, Ajah Patterson, Kevin Boddie, Keith Chalmers, Adrian Baxter, John Martin

Kicking – Keith Chalmers, Joel Pritchard, Dave Campbell, Michael Robertson, Tom Ruesink, Mike Guttmann, Brian Healey, John Martin

Passing – Kelvin Lomax, Gary Pate, Dave Campbell, Michael Robertson, Corey Johnson, Lynn Schmidt, Tom Ruesink, Will Shropshire

Friday Night Welcome and MFCA HOF Dinner
When: Friday, August 1 7-9 pm
Where: Elks Lodge 1180 Union Ave NW New Philadelphia, OH 44663

Buffet Dinner at The Elks Lodge (Buffet, 1 Red Meat, Chicken, and Fish. Children under are 12 free.) PFUFA has several special guests that are planning to attend (media, sponsors etc) A cash bar will be available during our dinner. At 8 we will return to the hotel for the MFCA Welcome and MFCA HOF awards.

PFUFA extended our dinner reservation ordering time. Go to this link for info and ordering info.
http://www.miniaturefootball.org/sit...fm?pageID=1391
This is the same dinner where we will hand out the MF HOF awards and welcome everyone to the convention.

[WEIRDWOLF]

Hope you all are ready. Any questions? Who's fired up!?!

[5-13 Studios]

can you give a little more detail as to what we're doing? i don't think that there's enough information here.

[FORU2HATE]

I'm ready. I will sending money for dinner on friday