Home Team vs.

Visiting Team September 18, 2020

Agenda
These times may seem overly meticulous. They follow what Ive typically seen happen in my years of doing this but they will b e different for every league. In the event of double-headers, I suggest you use the half-time as a nice buffer zone and have your teams aware of the fact that it may go longer or shorter depending on the timeline requirements. MAKE SURE TO CLEAR THIS WITH YOUR BOUT PRODUCTION PEOPLE half-times may be written into bout contracts, you cannot change them in that case.

Pregame
5:30pm 6:30pm 6:45pm 6:50pm Volunteer Check-in Doors open Crowd Welcome (See Scripts) National Anthem- To be sung by

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Introductions
Team Introductions (See Scripts) Should be about 2 minutes per team, 1 for the refs/NSOs Visiting Team Rollout (See Scripts and Rosters) Home Team Rollout (See Scripts and Rosters) Refs & NSOs (See Scripts and Rosters)

6:53pm 6:55pm 6:57pm

First Period
6:58pm 7:00pm T-2 mins Equipment check and Spectators Rules First Whistle Period lengths vary; approximately 45min per period Remind Crowd Skaters/officials have right of way

Halftime
Too many times this aspect of the bout is done last minute. If youre doing a raffle, consider giving notes on the individua l items in the Script area and add (SEE SCRIPTS). If youre doing a show or something, consider creating a timeline and have a conversation with your announcer to ensure theyre on the same page . If its not worth your time, why are you doing it?

7:45pm 7:55pm 7:58pm

Remind crowd, skaters/officials have right of way Raffle, Contest or show or whatever (See Scripts) Announce 5 minute warning I always say smoke em if you got em, do your own thing Equipment check

Second Period
8:00pm T-10 mins T-2 mins First Whistle Information about next home bout on against Remind crowd not to approach track until told

Ending
8:45pm Read game ending notes (See Scripts)

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Scripts
Allow your announcers to be extemporaneoussay it how it comes naturallyuse your common sense as to what information to give them. Note where I point out how many words per blurb. Many BPs forget that actual time and effort should go into writing those blurbs and that there is a finite amount of seconds in which to say things between jams. Oh, the bloody horror of a shittily written bout script. Even worse when you end up with a BP that insists you read things ver batim; nooooooOOpe.

Crowd Welcome
Say hi in your own way First whistle is at National anthem to be sung at

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Visiting Team Rollout Gangham Style

Coming all the way from WFTDA Rank of (See Rosters) hometown , with a 2014 season record of , I give you and a

Home Team Rollout Enter Sandman

I advise against a scripted home team rollout. Just give pertinent stats and info so the announcer can be extemporaneous i.e.:

Season/All-time record Current WFTDA ranking Recent accomplishments Skating for tonights charity (See Rosters)

Refs/NSO Intro
Thanks and praise blurb (10-35 words) followed by roster (See Rosters)

Spectator Rules
(read during equipment check; feel free to mix these individually between sponsorship as well) VIP section is not free; people paid extra. Please respect that. If you spill, please alert League Representatives immediately so we can clean it up Do not physically interfere with any player or official at any time Please allow officials and skaters right of way Trackside is dangerous and only allowable for adults 18+ at own risk Have a good time, take lots of pictures, and make friends

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Sponsorship and housekeeping:
Read these every other jam or so at your discretion. Check the boxes to keep track. League Recruiting skaters blurb 1 (7-25 words) blurb 2 (7-25 words)

1st period 2nd period

League Recruiting officials blurb 1 (7-25 words) Sponsor 1 blurb 1 (7-25 words) blurb 2 (7-25 words) Sponsor 2 blurb 1 (7-25 words) blurb 2 (7-25 words) Raffle Announcement blurb 1 (7-25 words) blurb 2 (7-25 words) blurb 3 (7-25 words)

2nd period

1st period 2nd period

1st period 2nd period

1st period

Closing Notes Dont approach track til told by announcer Next bout is against at Please help clean up your area

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Rosters
Wait, youre not in Microsoft Excel right now. That must mean that youre WRONG! Youll need to do this separately for each team unless you know excel well enough to specify named ranges. If that makes no sense, read everything up to unless. 1. Go into excel, 2. Column headers should be Number, Team Name 3. When populating, before each skater number, add an apostrophe (this thing ) 4. When its all filled out, sort by skater number. 5. Pat yourself on the fucking back. 6. Copy/Paste that roster into this packet. 7. Use the intelligence God (or Shiva or Carl Sagan or whoever) gave a tapeworm and format that thing so people can read it. BOLD, ALLCAPS IMPACT FONT IS FUCKING HARD TO READ. STOPIT. Heres an example of a good roster. Im not going to give you its cousin, the Fuck the announcer roster You already know what that one looks like.

Number 13 28 320 4 42 444 5 51 512 8 8380 L33T T2

*Captain

Home Team Pain Ga Laura Amber Dextrous Sheer Luxe Joss-Hole Esteemed Bun Bun* Bonnie Doom Chick Norris Cass Warfare Legs Fatal Dreidel Hazel Raw Thrasha Nova T-Wrecks

Number 0 187 31 57 664 72 76 86 9 99 V8R XOXO

Visiting Team Blood Thirsty Bad to the Bonita Sew Evil Cemetery Mary Lisafer Nasty Drew Dutch Crunch * Ivy Creepin Prim & Improper Wheelie Hot Darth Shannonigans Bam Bam Bootyslam

If youre a new league and you just plain need help, reach out to me. Im on the facebook. <3 Bob Ueckerlele