Rules & Format

4 Game Guarantee Tournament Format

4 Teams in the Tournament in a Round-Robin setup.  Each team will play three round-robin games.  The top 2 teams will play where the 1st place team will play the 2nd place team (for the Gold Medal game) and the 3rd place team will play the 4th place team (for the Bronze Medal game). 

Point System

Tiebreaking Rules for position/placement

Teams receive points; 3 points for a SHUTOUT win, 2 points for a regular win, 1 point for a tie, and 0 points for a loss

  1. Winner of head to head, during round-robin play

  2. Least goals scored against during round-robin play

  3. Total goals for during round-robin play

  4. Team to score first goal scored in head to head during round-robin play (if applicable)

  5. TOTAL least penalty minutes total taken during round-robin play.

  6. a rule will be make by the tournament staff

Game Forfeits– Game forfeits do to a no show will automatically result in a 1 to 0 score.  The team causing the forfeit will automatically be assessed the loss.  Games ending prematurely due to a referee decision, or a team leaving the ice will automatically end with a loss being assessed to the team causing the forfeit and a win to their opponent regardless of the score.  If the opponent of the forfeiting team had been winning then the score will remain as is, if the opponent was losing then the score will revert back to a 1-0 score.  Teams causing forfeits under these circumstances will not be eligible for semifinal or championship games.

Tiebreaking Rules (Example)

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