High Desert Showdown

📍 Big 8 Softball Complex

📅 April 11–12

💰 Entry Fee: $495

🏆 AWARDS / PAYOUT

💰 10 Teams in Division = $1,000 CASH

💰 Less than 10 = Scaled CASH payout

🏆 Championship awards + bragging rights

👉 If division splits into 2 teams

➡️ Championship = RINGS for those divisions- with 2 teams only 

⚠️ DIVISION FORMAT UPDATE

👉 Coed D / pool play into single elimination bracket 

COED E/ REC combined for pool play

👉 Run spotting WILL be enforced

➡️ After pool play:

💥 ALL divisions break into their OWN bracket & championship games

⚾ GAME RULES

🧢 MEN’S

• Strike Zone Pitching

• Juking Allowed

• ❌ Rec = NO JUKING

👫 COED

• 5/5 or 6/6

• Strike Zone Pitching

• Juking Allowed

• ❌ Rec = NO JUKING

• D’s get 4 team home runs 

• E’s Get 2 team home runs 

• Rec gets 1 team home run

1 runner per inning per gender 

Pitcher get unlimited runners 

👴 SENIORS 40/50

• Standard NCS Rules

• Game-flow adjustments- modified 

We have added a 40 Major team into the 40 AAA division.

⚠️ Run Spot Rule:

The Major team will spot 5 runs to all 40 AAA teams.

💣 Home Run Rule:

➡️ 5 Home Runs allowed (same rule applies when playing the Major team)

2 50 years old have been cleared to play as a 40 aaa player on team CHUY 

🎯 BALL RULES

• ONYX or Dudley — 44/375 MAX

• Seniors: BOOM+ or Dudley 44/525

⚠️ No NCS stamp required for this event

📋 TEAM REQUIREMENTS

✔ Rosters MUST be online

✔ Teams must be legal

🚨 Need to move up? DO IT NOW

➡️ Illegal teams will be removed

⚖️ RUN SPOTTING (IF COMBINED)

• 1 Division difference = 5 runs

• 2 Divisions = 7 runs

• (Continues accordingly)

🔥 FORMAT NOTE

• 3 Game Minimum

• Format = 2 pool play games into a single elimination bracket