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Tournaments have grown monotonous. They’re the same thing, year after year. Show up early. Warm up. Play hard. But no skipsies. No Pick 6. No pool noodle to be used on defense. Well, we’re 40 now. And it’s time to wake up! It’s time to change. It’s time to have a tournament midlife crisis. Fools Fest is upon us and it is here to shatter the dreary, mundane tournament existence with something new...or maybe something old. Fools Fest 2017 is the 40th Fools Fest. And as such it will be larger than ever. It will be special and amazing. It will be...XL.

Fools Fest XL will take place March 31st - April 2nd at Pratt Park in Fredericksburg, VA. To be a part of it, you need to come up with 2 things - a halftime game to play that echoes the midlife crisis experience and a special rule to be used during a half of each game. This rule must be either something new - a rule that you think will be part of ultimate in 40 years - or something old - a rule that you think was part of ultimate 40 years ago.

ESPN has their 30 for 30 series. Well Fools Fest XL will have 40 for 40. You must submit a commercial for our 40 for 40 series explaining your game and your rule. Your commercial must be a video that is no longer than 40 seconds. It needs to be put online and a link to it provided during your registration. Any bid submitted without the video link will not be considered. And it must start with the following image:





As always, Fools Fest will feature 3 divisions of play – open, mixed, and women’s. You may submit a bid to any division but you may not submit a bid to more than one division. For 2017, we are continuing the two bid window process. All bids submitted by 11:59 PM on January 29th will be considered early. This means three things – 1) your bid is cheaper (only $599), 2) you cannot get rejected in the early bid selection, only accepted or waitlisted for the 2nd round, and 3) if you so choose, you may adjust your bid or switch your bid from one division to another. For any teams that don’t submit their bid during the first window, the bid will be $650 and due by 11:59 PM on February 19th.

Please keep in mind that no club or pro teams are ever accepted for this tournament. Bids are accepted based on a mix of the following criteria: geographic diversity, school/origin variation, strength of bid gimmick response, competitiveness of your team, and how willing your team is to help out at the tournament (such as helping staff with tourney set-up and clean up, parking duty in the AM, cleaning up the beer garden at the end of the day, checking IDs at the beer garden, etc… Volunteering for less fun tasks is viewed more favorably by the staff volunteers than volunteering for the beer garden only, but if you volunteer for something, be ready to do it.)

All teams will be notified by Wednesday, February 22nd. Those teams will need to confirm their acceptance of the bid by Sunday, February 26th.