JVA

The JVA Hawkeye Cup is a power league that is hosted at the Adrenaline gym (which is also a basketball facility). It is spread out over three weekends in a few separate months. The dates are January 9&10, February 20&21, and March 12&13. This league is set up so that the first day of each weekend is the pool play, where you play all the teams in your pool first. Then the second day is the tournament, or bracket play. That is where you play the teams that did similar to you the day before in their pools and if you lose a match you are moved down or done. Each weekend they take in the rankings from the previous weekend to create the new pools for the next weekend, similar to seeding at a regular tournament.
We have already had the first weekend of the power league and we won it. Since the gym is only 3 minutes away from my house, which is very nice for practices, some of the girls stayed at my house the night before we played the first day for convenience, especially for the girls who live really far away. Some of the girls live almost two hours away from where we practice every week! They make that drive two or more times a week for practices and tournaments.We also have a food schedule for all the tournaments that tells us who's turn it is to bring breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks. We do this every tournament to make it easier on the players and parents. This makes it so that the players or their parents don't have to leave the gym to get food during a tournament or buy food ahead of time, because the concession food is not that good. At the Adrenaline gym, it is really easy for us to have our food set up at our camp because we get to go into the upstairs level where there are tables and chairs just for us and not the other people there. We are looking forward to the rest of the tournament in the future, it will be fun and I think we will continue to do well.

 It is cool to host a tournament where lots of teams from around the state come and play, and it is a great way to get started for the season.