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Official Cornhole Rules and Regulations	Printer Friendly Version
CORNHOLE RULES: Overview CORNHOLE RULE 1: Court Layout CORNHOLE RULE 2: Pitching Distances CORNHOLE RULE 3: Playing Equipment (Boards and Bags) CORNHOLE RULE 4: Court Preparation and Maintenance CORNHOLE RULE 5: Play of the Game	CORNHOLE RULE 6: Length of the Game CORNHOLE RULE 7: Scoring CORNHOLE RULE 8: Appropriate Conduct CORNHOLE RULE 9: ACO Ranking and Awards CORNHOLE RULE 10: ACO Sanctioned Tournament Play

CORNHOLE RULE 9: ACO Ranking & Awards

9.1 ACO Rankings And Awards – The ACO tracks and reports results on players who are ACO members, recording all results in an exclusive sanctioned event database. Rankings and handicaps (both sanctioned and non-sanctioned) are in the works. The top 10 sanctioned players and teams in the world will automatically qualify for the ACO Nationals, bypassing the qualifying round.

9.2 Basis For ACO Rankings and Handicapping – You must be an ACO member to be considered for a sanctioned handicap and ranking. Non-members can still have a ranking and handicap but it will not be sanctioned. At this point, a player’s ranking is mainly based on his or her overall cumulative scoring percentage. In the future, winning percentage, earnings and sanctioned events played will also factor into overall world ranking.

(Additional details to follow regarding the future development of American Cornhole’s online player management ranking and handicap tool which is in production with scheduled phase one release second quarter 2007.)

9.3 Handicapping – The ACO is working hard to create a fair and accurate handicapping system that can be used in open tournaments and league play across the country. We hope that the structure will be in place by the second quarter of 2007. Each tournament or league can choose whether to use the handicap system, but we highly recommend it at the Amateur level to make the game more competitive for all participants (much like golf and bowling apply successful handicap systems).

9.4 Reporting To The ACO – Members hosting ACO sanctioned tournaments will be responsible for
submitting ACO Official Tournament Scoring Summaries to the ACO at the completion of every ACO
sanctioned tournament. The scoring summaries set forth the names and ACO membership ID numbers for each player, the number of frames pitched and the number of Cornholes pitched for the tournament, along with other scoring information.

(Additional details to follow regarding the future development of American Cornhole’s online league and tournament management system that will help automate these manual processes via the internet. The product is in development and has a scheduled release of phase one by second quarter 2007.)

9.5 Updating And Reporting – The official rankings will be updated and published on a bi-weekly basis. Up-do-date cumulative statistics will be reported for each ACO member who authorizes the release of this information in their membership application.