November 26, 2024 Minutes
Idaho Esports Association, Inc
50 Jeffres Lane
Sandpoint Idaho 83864
Location: Virtual https://meet.google.com/kke-etew-tmy
Time: November 26, 2024 2:00 Pacific/3:00 Mountain
Call to Order
Attendance
- Dalton Hawkins
- Nate Sarrazolla
- Gericke Kohn
- Riley Boyd - BSU
- Mitch Young - late
Approvals
Reports
New Business
- BSU - Riley Boyd - Winter Major & State
- Winter games branding created - pretty similar to last year
- Overwatch, Val, RL
- Date: Jan 30 - Feb 1
- BSU to reach out to UI and ISU
- Looking at start time 4:30 to 9:30 mountain Thurs and Fri
- Saturday Earlier
- In-person not required, but preferred
- Idaho Falls regional on Jan 25
- BSU Welcome to LeagueOS
- MS Showcase
- HS commentators
- State -
- Theater - SSBU possible 4 setups (8 teams) - no real time provided for Friday for start and end - Riley to get back to us
- Winter games branding created - pretty similar to last year
- Exclaim - have as preferred apparel company - approved
- Dalton comfortable with quality, timing, and company responsiveness
- Alt option is SPIN - eh
- Side note: gear for board members - approved
- Polo
- Quarter zip - Nate to esign them!
- Other side note: “Ref Jerseys” specific BSU people for state?
- A kind of thank you for working the event
- Set welcome meeting
- Jan 15 4:45 pm Mountain/3:45 pm Pacific
- Form
- What time out each day
- Spring Break
- At school or home or hybrid (hybrid=explain)
- Hybrid or Home - Longest commute time to home if home
- Set weekly office hours to help teams with registration
- Wednesdays from 3 mountain to 5 mountain (Nate 3-4, Dalton 4-5)
- Open registration on welcome meeting day
- Age and current registered at active team school
- Honor system
- Challenge - if discovered not eligible, all school teams may be subject to immediate disqualification for the season with no refunds.
- Send all team's season graphic Nate made
- Game-specific graphics like HSEL One pager
- Posted season graphic on front page of IEA with clickable links to each game
- Mountain, Pacific, 1A-6A discussion - tabled for 2025 Spring Season to be worked on going forward
- Dalton:
- Mountain and Pacific are just teams you play similar to how tsports play teams near them, not necessarily in division
- Will need to modify playins because of next point
- State transforms to top 4 small and top 4 large, double elimination?
- Nate:
- Pros
- Multiple locations
- More “rivalries”
- Cons
- More big than small
- Who gets “the stage?”
- Less “participation?
- Less chance of a “cinderella story”
- Disconnects the state?
- Maybe top 6/8 large and top 4 small?
- Divisions like VHEL or top X qualify for “champions bracket” like HSEL?
- I still want to do my tournament design
- Change for 2026?
- Gives us a year to fully develop and get coach/IHSAA feedback?
- Pros
- Dalton:
- Create and add in trophies and titles for 2025
- Old trophies
- Game 1st - 3rd
- 1st medal - starting + 2 subs
- Coach oty - remove
- Mvp/game - challenge coins
- Academic
- Game 1st - 3rd
- New Trophies
- Best overall Esports team
- Calculated based on performance of all teams that qualified for state and points for participation in season limit one scoring team per school
- sportsmanship - no
- Best overall Esports team
- New titles
- Online only State Championship/no state but free?
- CFB 25 - console only - SQ - Sat 3mst/2pst
- SF6 - Smart Queue system - Sat 3mst/2pst
- F1 2025/EA WRC? - tabled
- Intramural league
- Free
- Smart que
- Reduced game length
- Ssbu solos?
- Valorant Bo3 swiftplay
- RL 3s bo3
- Mario Kart HS
- Bed wars - $500 so either not free or just take from general fund
- Old trophies
Old Business
- Dalton spaced sending rules scrum out to folks so not happening for 2025 season