The USQA National Quoit Tour

USA Nationals

The USA Nationals is one of three NEW tournaments joining our annual World Quoit Tournament for the 2005 season.  It is the third public event scheduled on our four-tournament National Tour, and is held in August of each year at the USQA Quoit Grounds, located between Reading and Pottstown, Pennsylvania.  Winners of this tournament receive the title of

"U.S. National Champions."  The seedings and rankings values arising from this tournament are used as part of the calculations for determining the "USQA World Quoit Champions" and Final World Rankings for 2005. 

Tournament Date

August 13, 2005

Rain Date

  World Quoit Championship

Tournament Date

Location

USQA Quoit Grounds

Amityville, Pennsylvania

Entry Fee

$60 per 2-person team

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 NOTE: All 2005 Events Now Start One Hour Earlier !

Check-in  Between  6:45 - 7:15 AM   

Pool Play Begins   8:00 AM Sharp

$10.00 Late Fee for Any Team Arriving After 7:15am

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Natural top-soil pits are used at

the USQA Quoit Grounds

$4,000

In cash and trophy prizes will be awarded

If a Minimum of 90 Teams Participate

Guaranteed 8 Games in Pool Play

For Every Team pitching in this Event

16 Top-Finishing Playoff Teams Win Cash Prizes

As denoted by chart at left. 

Best-of-3-Games Pitched in all Rounds of Playoffs

Tournament Reservations

Advance Reservations are required to participate in this event.  To register your team for this tournament, click on the link below, print a hard copy of the Sign-up Form, fill out the required information for BOTH players on your team, and include payment by personal check to the address listed on the form.   The Sign-up Form should be mailed as early as possible to help us better plan for each event.

USA NATIONALS  Sign-up Form

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 Team Sign-up Forms sent through the mail must be received no later than the Wednesday before the tournament date. 

Any Team Sign-up Forms received after the Wednesday deadline will incur a $10.00 Late Fee.

Any participating teams arriving after 7:15 am on Tournament day will incur an ADDITIONAL $10.00 Late Fee.

PLEASE BE PUNCTUAL!!

 If you do not mail us a Sign-up Form, you must register as a Walk-on and pay the entrance fee PLUS the $10.00 Late Fee on the morning of the Event.  Walk-ons are accepted on a First-Come, First-Serve basis while open slots are still available.

Remember, you are NOT guaranteed a slot if you wait until Tournament Day to sign-up!

 _____________________________   Food And Drink Availability  ________________________________

A Hot Food Vendor will be selling food and beverages at the USA Nationals

Hot and cold food Items and non-alcoholic beverages will be privately sold by a "Chuck Wagon" type vendor at this event. 

More info on attending vendors will be provided when it becomes available.

Important Beverage Policy

This event will be attended by families and will include Youth involvement

If you bring any alcohol to this event you must be at least 21 years of age

All alcoholic beverages MUST be concealed and consumed discretely in

Opaque plastic drinking cups or foam can Koozies. 

Please, no exposed bottles or cans.  Thank You!

Please Drink Responsibly!

  _________________________________   Hotel Accommodations   _________________________________ 

For those who will be attending this tournament and are traveling from out of the area, 

overnight rooms are available at the Mel-Dor Motel on Boyertown, PA. 

This inexpensive 18-room motel is located just off PA Route 100 on the north side of Boyertown. 

For information, directions, and reservations, call or visit their website.

           Mel-Dor Motel      610-367-2626      www.meldormotel.com

__________________________________   Camping at World's Site   ________________________________ 

Camping Overnight on the premises WILL be permitted the evenings before and after the Event, 

at a rate of $10.00 per person, per night.  You may pitch a tent or sleep in your camping vehicle. 

NO open fires allowed - Propane Stoves or Grills only.  Portable toilets available - No Bath facilities.

Guests are camping on private property in a residential area - Excessive noise or unruly activity will not be tolerated.

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The Amityville quoit grounds are located on a scenic, nine-acre, semi-wooded property just a few miles west of Boyertown, PA and just off of Route 562, in Amity Township.  It includes a large, level field area with available space for up to 100 pairs of quoit pits.  The total number of pits constructed for each Tournament will be determined by the number of registered teams participating.  A minimum field of 60 teams would require 20 sets of pits, and the number of teams pitching and the pits needed usually increases each year! 

The Tournament

Guaranteed 8 Games of Pool Play.  Every team will pitch 8 round-robin games against opposing teams within their Division, and will complete all assigned games in Pool Play even if the team loses all eight matches.  Seed positions for the playoffs are then determined for qualifying teams, and are calculated from the number of wins and the differential point total from all their games.  The seeded teams within each division will go on to compete in the playoffs.  

Best-of-Three Elimination During all Playoff Rounds!  All tournaments in the USQA National Quoit Tour will use a Best-of-Three-Game format for all  rounds of the playoffs.  By implementing an 8 AM tournament start and an 8-game Pool Play, the playoffs should be able to complete by early evening.  Electric Lighting will be available for any games that  run past dusk.

Most Events in the USQA National Quoit Tour require the construction of at minimum 20-30 pairs of quoit pits (40-60 pits).  Because of the large number of pits involved, and because the Quoit Ground property is privately owned, it is currently not feasible to construct and maintain regulation pits built with wood boxes filled with clay.  The pits at the WQC will instead be installed directly on the ground and the sod will be removed to expose bare areas of topsoil for game play.   Additional topsoil material will be available for pit maintenance between tournament rounds.

Be aware that pitching in dirt is quite different than pitching in soft, well-maintained clay, so participants are hereby notified that they shall come to this event properly prepared to pitch on dirt pits in their existing condition.   ALL participants shall be considered at the same disadvantage.

The quoits used in this tournament are cast steel, with a weight of four pounds each.  Custom casting molds were used to make these quoits. Our custom design includes the raised letters "USQA" on the top surface in addition to the raised "A" and "B" lettering.  Each "A" quoit is painted gold, and each "B" quoit is painted black.