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The All-Time Greats Barnstormers Tour 2020
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Signups are now open to all!
Win tickets to your favorite ballpark!*
The ATG 9 Barnstormers Tour 2020 is a great way to try a variety of different league setups and meet new Strat-O-Matic fans from around the world!
This year the tournament spans 6 Events, with participation required in at least 5 of them. If you play in all 6 Events, your lowest-scoring season is dropped.
Check out the Schedule below, the PRIZES you could win, and then SIGN UP!
For more information, or to sign up, email the Commissioner at sirmightymoose@comcast.net.
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Past Winners
BT 2003: LJs
BT 2004: Wbonn63
BT 2005: 45Beach
BT 2006: Odyssey Tigger
BT 2007: gkhd11a
BT 2008: The Last Druid
BT 2009: toyboys
BT 2010: DonFESQ
BT 2011: andycummings65
Tournament Event Schedule
Event 2
begins: June 1 or June 8
(Deadline for Tournament Entry)
Salary Cap: $80,000,000 (standard)
Draft: Auto List Draft (standard)
DH Rule: No (standard)
Free Agent Drop Penalty: 5/10/20% (standard)
In Progress Leaders*
League 1:
play starts Jun 1
League 2:
play starts Jun 1
League 3:
play starts Jun 1
League 4:
play starts Jun 1
League 5:
play starts Jun 1
League 6:
play starts Jun 1
League 7:
play starts Jun 1
League 8:
play starts Jun 1
League 9:
play starts Jun 1
League 10:
play starts Jun 1
League 11:
play starts Jun 1
League 12:
play starts Jun 1
League 13:
play starts Jun 1
League 14:
play starts Jun 1
League 15:
play starts Jun 1
League 16:
play starts Jun 1
League 17:
play starts Jun 1
League 18:
play starts Jun 1
League 19:
play starts Jun 8
* leaders determined by W/L, then run diff.
bold - league champion
Event 3
begins: June 29 or July 6
Salary Cap: $100,000,000
Draft: Auto List Draft (standard)
DH Rule: Yes
Free Agent Drop Penalty: 5/10/20% (standard)
In Progress Leaders*
This Event has not yet begun.
* leaders determined by W/L, then run diff.
bold - league champion
Event 4
begins: July 27 or Aug 3
Salary Cap: $60,000,000
Draft: Auto List Draft (standard)
DH Rule: No (standard)
Free Agent Drop Penalty: 5/10/20% (standard)
In Progress Leaders*
This Event has not yet begun.
* leaders determined by W/L, then run diff.
bold - league champion
Event 5
begins: August 24 or 31
Salary Cap: $140,000,000
Draft: Choice of Live or Auto List Draft
DH Rule: Yes
Free Agent Drop Penalty: 5/10/20% (standard)
In Progress Leaders*
This Event has not yet begun.
* leaders determined by W/L, then run diff.
bold - league champion
Event 6
begins: September 21
Salary Cap: $200,000,000
Draft: Choice of Live or Auto List Draft
DH Rule: Yes
Free Agent Drop Penalty: 5/10/20% (standard)
In Progress Leaders*
This Event has not yet begun.
* leaders determined by W/L, then run diff.
bold - league champion
Semi-Finals
Ranks #10-81 only
(#1-9 automatically advance to Champions League)
begins: Dec. 7, 2020
Salary Cap: $100,000,000
Draft: Auto List Draft (standard)
DH Rule: Yes
Free Agent Drop Penalty: 5/10/20% (standard)
In Progress Leaders*
Does not count toward tournament point totals.
This Event has not yet begun.
* leaders determined by W/L, then run diff.
bold - league champion
Champions League
the 9 highest-ranked Managers + 3 Semi-Finals league champions only
begins: TBD
Salary Cap: $100,000,000
Draft: Live Draft w. ballpark
DH Rule: yes
Free Agent Drop Penalty: 5/10/20% (standard)
TOURNAMENT RULES
I. Membership
The deadline for membership is the start date of the second Event. All members are asked to give an email address (or two) so that the Commissioner and other tournament members can contact you during the season. The only monetary requirement is to purchase your required number of teams.
To sign up, please send an email to the Commissioner, Mighty Moose, at sirmightymoose@comcast.net, expressing your desire to
participate.
II. Qualifying Events
The tournament will consist of Six (6) Qualifying Events that will be used to rank managers. Every manager must play in at least five of the tour events to be eligible to compete in the Semi-Finals and Champions League. The rankings will be based on each manager's cumulative score. If you have played all six events, your lowest event score will be dropped when compiling your overall cumulative total. If you only play in five of the events, you will not be eligible to drop your lowest event total.
III. League Assignments
Every league (including possible live drafts and semis/finals) will use the new feature to randomize all teams within the league once filled. Once a signup period has started, you will e-mail Mighty Moose of your intent to participate in that Round and he will tell you which league to join. We will try to have at least two different starting weeks to accommodate vacation schedules, so please notify the Commish which week you have a preference for. You will then have 72 hours to enter your team once Mighty Moose e-mails you with your league assignment. Once you team enters its league, do not pull your team out for any reason. If you selected a wrong stadium, e-mail the Commish which stadium you intended and we will try to get it changed before first pitch. If any games have been played, the stadium will not be changed and a 25-point (wins) penalty will be assessed if this results in a stadium duplication (see Section X - Ballpark Requirements).
IV. Semi-Finals Leagues
After all 6 events are completed, the top 9 ranked tournament managers will receive a BYE and will automatically advance to the
Championship League. The next 72 ranked players (#10-81) will compete in one of three 24-team Semi-Finals leagues, the three winners of which will advance to the Championship League.
V. Championship League
The top 9 ranked tournament managers and the 3 Semi-Finals League Winners will play in a year-end Champions League to determine the overall Champion. A vote of all 12 players in the Championship Finals will determine the salary cap and DH/NO DH for the Championship League. The Championship Round will be live draft, 16 rounds with 1 stadium drafted as one of the picks.
The draft order will be determined by your overall standings in the Tour. The (9) players who receive the BYE to the Championship Round will have the #1 to #9 draft position "choices". This means that the #1 player will be given his "choice" of draft order, and then the #2 player will choose his "choice" of draft order and on down the line until each of the Top 9 players has a draft position.
The #10-#11-#12 draft placement picks will be the Winners of the World Series in their Semi-Finals league. Order for #10, #11, #12 will be: - By most wins in their semi-final season.
This is to give due rewards for your overall tournament placement and to give priority draft positioning to the Top 9 receiving a bye to the Finals.
VI. Use of Fillers
Some qualifying leagues for an event will need "fillers" due to the fact that we won't have an even numbered membership (divisible by 12) and
we will probably have some "dropouts" during the season. "Fillers" are non-Tour players who will play in the qualifying league for the sheer
joy of competition; "Fillers" can also be Tour players who will play in an extra league just to fill out the league but whose score for that
league will not count towards their official Tour standings. For such filler players only their first team entered in a round will count for
points.
VII. Point System / Tiebreakers
- 1 point for each regular season win
- 1 point for each postseason win
- 2 points for winning a regular season division title
- 1 point for winning the wild card position
- 5 points for winning a league championship
Tiebreakers
1. Championships won
2. Finals made
3. Playoffs made
4. Regular season total wins
5. No. of events played
6. Pick 3 winner
VIII. Live Drafts
The Barnstormers Board of Directors has ruled that the SOM live draft feature will not be a part of the original 6 events until such additions are made to the feature that will allow a more leisurely 3-hour per pick pace and an option to allow a stadium to be considered a draft pick. (Finals requires a unique stadium). The Board of Directors will review the live draft feature from time to time and reserves the right to change an upcoming event to use the feature. Diamond Dope could also be used for the Finals on a special request basis to the site owner. The Commish also reserves the right to have a group of players use the live feature for an event BY SPECIAL REQUEST of 12 players in the tournament IF THEY CAN ALL AGREE ON A DRAFT START TIME and PICK DURATION. The logistics of this are still being worked out. If you are interested in a Live Draft for your event, let the commish know once you get your e-mail of an upcoming event and it will be ATTEMPTED to match you up with a group, keeping in mind that Live Draft is a new and evolving technology and glitches may be experienced. If your live draft experiences a problem, the board of directors will work with SOM and rule on how to fix the issues.
IX. Tournament Violations
The board of directors has been chosen and will consist of ATG and Barnstormers Tour Vets - Mr. Baseball World, gkhd11a, andycummings65, MonkeyMaker and Mighty Moose. The board will rule on any disputes or interpretation of the rules and has the right to cast votes to settle a dispute or to remove any member found in violation of Tournament Rules. Board Chairman Mighty Moose will cast a vote only to break a 2-2 Tie.
X. Ballpark Requirement
Managers will be required to play in a different ballpark GROUPING
for each Event of the Tournament Schedule. You may not pick the same
park GROUPING twice. A Grouping is a logical collection of stadium TYPES, such as
Extreme Pitching, Moderate Pitching, Neutral, Moderate Hitting, Extreme Hitting, Lefty, and Righty.If you do pick a park grouping that
you have used before, you will be fined 25 points (wins) off your total. In addition, all
live draft leagues will require unique ballparks (i.e. two managers in the same
league can't use the same ballpark). In the Champions League, any stadium may be used (but must be drafted in the live draft)
The groupings will be spelled out in a sticky post in the
ATG Barnstormers forum
XI. League Setup
All leagues will be set up as Advanced and use the new Weighted Waivers post-draft system. Unless otherwise specified, all leagues will use the 5/10/20% free agent drop penalty.
Disclaimer: Please note that the Tournament Board of Directors reserves the right to tweak or modify some of these rules during the Tournament if events warrant. If Strat-O-Matic releases a significant upgrade to the ATG Game (for example, ATG Version 8) during the Barnstormers Tournament, we will upgrade to the most current version of the game at the next event, as all Barnstormers Tournaments have done in the past.
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PRIZES
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The Winner of the Finals of the year-end Champions League will receive ALL of the following:
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4 tickets to your favorite ballpark*
We'll spring for 4 tickets to a game at any Major League stadium of your choosing (up to a value of $300)!
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2020 season Strat-O-Matic Board or Windows Game*
A must for every Strat-O-Matic fan - the full board game and card set of the 2020 season, OR next year's version of the Windows computer game! (To be released in early 2021)
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The Winner of the Finals will also have the privilege of choosing 5 Strat-O-Matic cards from our library to be added to the All-Time Greats 9 player set!
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The Loser of the Finals of the year-end Champions League will receive the following:
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2 tickets to your favorite ballpark*
We'll spring for 2 tickets to a game at any Major League stadium of your choosing (up to a value of $150)!
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2020 season Strat-O-Matic Windows Game*
A must for every Strat-O-Matic fan - next year's version of the Windows computer game! (To be released in early 2021)
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The Loser of the Finals will also have the privilege of choosing 3 Strat-O-Matic cards from our library to be added to the All-Time Greats 9 player set!
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The 3rd and 4th place finishers will have the privilege of choosing 1 Strat-O-Matic card from our library to be added to the All-Time Greats 9 player set!
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The 3rd through 12th place finishers will all win next year's version of the Windows Game (to be released in 2021)
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The top 9 managers in the overall standings (who automatically advance to the Finals), and the next 72 managers (who will compete in the Semi-Finals) will each win one additional Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365 team credit, on top of any he wins via the normal ways of winning credits.
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The top 2 semifinalists in each semi-finals league will each win the 2020 Season Strat-O-Matic Windows Game, to be released in early 2021.
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Signups are now underway!!
If you would like to participate in the 2020 Barnstormers Tournament, just send an e-mail to the Commissioner, Mighty Moose, at sirmightymoose@comcast.net, expressing your desire to participate, and please include your Strat-O-Matic.com member name. All communications in Barnstormers are handled through e-mail, so be sure you are always able check this e-mail for tournament business, or provide a work e-mail address so you don't miss any important announcements.
The Barnstormers is the biggest and longest running tournament which exclusively uses the ATG 9 Strat-O-Matic Card Set. The best players in the ATG Game put their skills to the test each year, playing in every different type of stadium, salary cap, card set, autodraft and live draft - all culminating in fighting their way to the championship round to play for REAL prizes, sponsored and approved by Strat-O-Matic themselves.
To prepare for your experience a valuable resource will be the Barnstormers Forum where discussions and topics will be posted and you can ask questions there, too.
You will eventually be required to purchase at least 5 single teams (include a 5-pack to save money) to use to compete in the 6 qualifying events. If you play in all 6 events, you can drop your lowest scoring season.
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What is the Barnstormers Tour?
The Barnstormers Tour is an open, year-long, non-elimination tournament that spans 6 Events, played with the new All-Time Greats 9 player set.
Participants play in 1 league in at least 5 of the Events, the top-ranked managers compete in a Semi-Finals round, and then the Champions League to determine the 2020 Champion!
Play begins: May 4 or May 11, 2020
Deadline for entry: June 1 or June 8, 2020
Tournament Standings
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