This is a traditional draft style tournament, but the twist is we have invited coaches and scouts from all over your states to specifically come and look for new talent they can recruit for Challenge Cup opportunities and more. Many players do not have the opportunity to attend events because their team is unable to attend, and this draft gives those players a chance to stand out and show off in front of the scouts. All teams will be balanced and feature an array of players from all sanctions, and there will be a Senior division with enough eligible players.
Sign up, get drafted, and show out to be seen!
While the draft portion of the event is coed, we know that the women’s game is built a bit differently. We don’t want you stuck playing C, 2B, or RF all day either, so we have special rules and an entire game just for you.
After pool play concludes, our female participants will get a special bonus feature game that will allow the scouts to get a good look at our female talent. While the game is an exhibition match for purposes of the tournament, the all-women games are important to make sure every lady gets a chance to show off in their favorite positions.
During the event, we also have special rules that will ensure you get some innings at your primary position when the scouts are there to see you play.
So don’t worry — we’ve got you covered!
Scouts and selection committee members from every classification level will be onsite for the event, and they are there to do exactly one thing: find players. Not to watch a friend. Not to fill an afternoon. To evaluate the talent on that field and carry names back to their programs.
This is the part that is genuinely hard to get anywhere else, at any price. You can play well for a decade in the right league and never once have a selection committee member standing behind the backstop while you hit. For one day, they are all right there.
“The room where the January invite list gets built is standing behind the backstop. Give them something to argue about.”
Every registration includes a piece of exclusive Challenge Cup gear — one of the items below.
Your gear is produced in the colour of the class you register as, so the scouts can read the field at a glance and know instantly what level of ball they are watching.
Every registration includes your own set of printed player trading cards — and they are a networking tool, not a souvenir. Each card carries a QR code that takes a coach or scout straight to your player profile, so the people who build rosters can find you again long after the last out.
Sample shown. Your card is produced with your own photo, positions and profile link.
Scouts, selection committee members and coaches from every classification level are onsite to find players. Give a card to every one of them you talk to — that is exactly what the cards are for.
Somebody liked what they saw in the fourth inning, but by Monday they cannot remember which team you were on. With your card in their pocket they do not have to remember anything — they scan it and your full player profile is in their hand.
Trade cards with the players beside you too. The roster you are drafted onto becomes the first calls in your phone when a team needs a pickup, and a card is how those connections survive past the handshake.
