9-1-1 Festival Cornhole Tournament prize $1,000

HALEYVILLE  - You can have fun competing in the Haleyville 9-1-1 Festival cornhole tournament and maybe win $1,000!
The tournament will be held on Saturday, June 2, starting at 9 a.m. in the parking lot in front of City Hall. Registration will be from 8 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. There is a 64-team limit. Entry fee is $40 per two-person team. Checks should be made payable to the Haleyville 9-1-1 Festival. You may send your form and check to: Haleyville 9-1-1 Festival, P.O. Box 634, Haleyville, Alabama 35565. For more information, call Jade Bice at 205-486-2312 or send an email to elliotthdw@centurytel.net. This is an Alabama Cornhole Association sanctioned event.
The first place team will receive $1,000. There will also be a custom design and built set of cornhole boards given away. The wrap for the boards was designed by Alicia Ward, of iShine Design. Ronnie Harris, of Haleyville, then built them with premium wood and other products, resulting in a beautiful quality product. The boards are wrapped in a rustic design of the American flag, featuring the recently created city medallion that commerorates the 50th anniversary of the first 9-1-1 call made in the nation in Haleyville. Ward commented, “It took me a long time to get the design created, but when I did, I knew it was right. I am very happy with how the boards came out.”
The hole in the board is surrounded by LED lights that change to a multitude of colors and is operated by remote control. To stay with the patriotic theme in relation to
9-1-1, the bags are red and blue.
Some say the cornhole game or bean bag toss was invented in 14th century Germany. Others credit the Blackhawk tribe of Illinois. Still others point to a Kentucky farmer in the 1800s.
Whatever its origins, the game cornhole emerged as a favorite pastime in Cincinnati about 15 years ago and soon spread like wildfire to backyards, beaches, and campgrounds across the United States, even in the Empire State.
In 2011, the New York Times declared that the Midwest’s favorite game is ‘’sweeping the Northeast.’’
If you’ve been to a professional football game and walked past pre-game tailgating parties in the parking lot, you probably saw people playing a version of the game, often called tailgate toss. That’s because fans of the Cincinnati Bengals introduced cornhole to fellow tailgaters from opposing teams, and it spread from NFL parking lot to NFL parking lot after that.
Today cornhole games are sold everywhere in every imaginable form. In addition to traditional boards decorated with sports teams, family names, and college logos, there are floating versions for pools, portable sets, and even (of course) a mobile app.
Boards are placed 27 feet from front edge to front edge and the game is played to 21 points.
The term “woody” refers to any cornhole bag that has been pitched and remains on the cornhole board playing surface at the conclusion of the frame. Each woody is one point.
Cornhole refers to any cornhole bag that has been pitched and passes through the cornhole board hole at anytime within the frame. Each cornhole is three points.
A bag that comes to rest touching the ground and the board does not count as a point.
Cancellation Scoring: The approved method of scoring for the sport of cornhole is “cancellation” scoring.
In cancellation scoring, the points of one player cancel out the points of their opponent. Using this method, only one player/team can score in each frame.
Both players play one board at a time, and stay in their designed lane for the whole game (right or left).
Players start the game at board one and alternate pitching bags until each player has pitched all four of his or her bags.
Players then walk to the end of their lane to the other board, take score, and resume pitching back to the other cornhole board.
Players must deliver the bag with an underhand release.
Feet must tay behind the line of the front of the board at the time of releasing the bag.
The player/team who scored in the preceding frame pitches first in the next frame. If neither player/team scores, the player/team who pitched first in the preceding frame shall retain first pitch in the next frame.
If bags become piled inside the cornhole board hole and may interfere or obstruct with the next pitch or if there is question whether a cornhole bag would have naturally fallen through the hole, a player may request to “rake” the cornhole bags that have fallen inside the hole.