Battle At The Barn 2023 - Bearpaw Lacrosse Events

One of the most prestigious and oldest box events in the USA

Battle At The Barn

Welcome to the Battle At The Barn Box Tournament 2024! This tourney has become a must-attend event for all serious box teams to be tested by the best around! This tournament is one of the original box tournaments in the region with a long history of great competition and competitive games. Teams come from all over the US and Canada to test their box skills in an action-packed weekend of box!

One of the first and definitely one of the best USBOXLA tournaments in the country!

Battle At The Barn

When: January 6-7, 2024

Where: The Plex North 1807 E California Rd, Fort Wayne, IN 46825

Fantastic 2-pad arena!
Turf playing surface – Cleats are NOT Allowed
Concessions are available at the facility.
Boards all around – no opening behind goals

Divisions:

High School Elite
High School A/B
Grades 7-8 A/B
Grades 5-6

Players/Teams may play up a division but never down. Bearpaw customizes its bracket creation based on placement calls with program directors and reserves the right to move a team’s placement to promote fair play.

Estimated Game Times:
Saturday Times: 8:00 AM – 11:00 PM
Sunday Times: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
All times are Eastern Time Zone.

Schedule: A full schedule will be available approximately 3-5 days before the event.

Fee: $2050* per team
$500 deposit due upon registration / Balance is due October 1st, 2023.

Failure to meet the final payment deadline will constitute non-acceptance of the tournament registration and a forfeiture of the tournament spot and deposit fee.

We have partnered with TRAVELING TEAMS® to secure discounted room blocks at a variety of tournament-approved hotels close to our venues. This is a Stay to Play event. It is required that all teams traveling to this event reserve their hotel accommodations through TRAVELING TEAMS®. Thank you in advance for your cooperation! Click Here To Book Your Hotels

A full schedule will be available approximately 3-5 days before the event.

We only use certified Athletic Trainers that are equipped with AED’s.

This is a USBOXLA Sanctioned event. All players & coaches must have current memberships. http://membership.usboxla.com

Pre Order Cool Tourney Swag with SIMAX - Available 11/1

Key Tournament Points
USBOXLA Sanctioned - All Players and Coaches must be current members
College coaches on site
Excellent Location & Facility
2-3 Experienced officials per game.
Concessions are available at the facility. Please do not bring coolers, outside food or drinks. Water for Teams - Please bring your own water bottles for the benches.
4 Game Guarantee w/ some getting 5
Turf playing surface - Cleats are NOT Allowed
Boards all around - no opening behind goals
30 Second Shot Clocks
Certified Athletic Trainer(s)
Videographer/Photographer

Tourney History

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Format & Rules

We will follow the USBOXLA rule book with the following changes.

No cleats are allowed at this facility. Just flat bottoms shoes.
Goal Sizes = PeeWee Goal Size 4’x4′ and Bantam & HS Goal Size 4’x4’6″
3 x 12 min running time periods.
2 min rest between periods.
Last minute of the 3rd period is stop-time if teams are within 2 goals.
Game clock starts on time whether the teams are ready or not. Any team in violation will be given a 2 min delay of game penalty.
1 30-second timeout per game per team. A time-out stops game & penalty time.
Pool & Bracket Play – If tied after regulation time teams immediately proceed to a USBOXLA Shootout (3 shooters each and the home team decides on whether they will shoot first or second). If tied after that, there is a sudden death shootout round (all rostered players must shoot before any player shoots twice).
The championship game will play One 5 minute sudden victory over-time. If it is still tied then a shootout will decide the champion.

USBOXLA Rule Book Can be found here: OFFICIAL-USBOXLA-Rule-and-Situational-Book-NO-PRINT

Tie Breakers (Updated 1/4/2023)

Points – 2 points for a win. 0 points for a loss
Head to Head – This breaks ties based on the record (or points, if points are used) against the teams tied with. For example, if 3 teams have the same overall record at 4-2 and all 3 of the teams played each other an equal number of times and one teams record against the other two was 2-0 and another was 1-1 and the other was 0-2. This tie-breaker would order them accordingly. If all three teams had identical 1-1 records, this tie-breaker would not be used.

It should be noted that this tie-breaker is completely ignored if all of the teams tied do not play each other an equal number of times. For example, if there are 3 teams tied and one team played the other two, but the other two did not play each this tie-breaker will be ignored (regardless of the outcome of the two games played by the first team)

Goals Allowed – The total of a teams opponents score. The smallest total wins the tie-breaker.
Goals Scored – The total of a team’s score. The higher total wins the tie-breaker.

Max Score Differential Per Game 10