Welcome back to one of LAOUT’s newest leagues: The Crosstown Classic! The Core+Draft format will let you play with your friends and meet new people — opt to captain your own team with a hand-selected core or enter the draft as a free agent, to be selected by a core in a structure that promotes parity and increased access to teams. The league will be split into East and West divisions with a League final pitting the best of the East against the best of the West. Choose your side and have fun!
Details:
Format: 6v6, Grass/turf fields, Core+Draft teams. 4 teams per division. Games will be 90 minutes
Finals: Division Finals will be the last week of the regular season with the League Finals on 12/15
Size: Due to field space, the league will be limited. Those that do not get drafted to a team will be entitled to a full refund
Party: There will be a bar tab for each field after Division Finals.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Sunday, August 23rd – Registration opens, and captain recruitment starts.
- Sunday September 21st – Deadline for free agent registration. Cores created and verified
- Friday October 18th – Draft, team notifications sent out to players
- Monday October 20th – League start
- Monday December 15th – Final Week of League (Championship
WHEN and WHERE:
East-side: Mondays 8-10pm at Pasadena Robinson Park
West-side: Wednesdays 8-10pm at Culver City HS Stadium
What is a Core+Draft League?
This format is designed to merge the best parts of Bring-You-Own-Team and Direct Draft formats. The goals of the Core+Draft format are to increase parity between teams as well as to make it easier for those new to town or without a yearly Bring-Your-Own-Team team to participate in the league. Captains choose players to invite to a team core according to specific rules to limit overpowered cores, similar to the current Bring-Your-Own-Team format. Free Agents (those not in cores) are then drafted by teams to fill out the rest of the roster. The draft process also has rules in place to balance teams based on the strength of their cores
Schedule
East-Side Monday Schedule
- 10/6 (Tentative): Showcase Pickup
- 10/20: Week 1
- 10/27: Week 2
- 11/3: Week 3
- 11/10: Week 4
- 11/24: Week 5
- 12/1: Week 6
- 12/8: Division Finals
- 12/15: League Finals
West-Side Wednesday Schedule
- 10/8 (Tentative): Showcase Pickup
- 10/15: Week 1
- 10/22: Week 2
- 10/29: Week 3
- 11/5: Week 4
- 11/12: Week 5
- 11/19: Week 6
- 11/26: No games!
- 12/3: Week 7
- 12/10: Division Finals
- 12/18: League Finals