Bring em' all IBP ........ cousins, second cousins, step-sister ..... the more the merrier ......... any and all who want to go to war on the field of dodgeball are welcome ........ leave the faint-heated at home or in the stands ....... no professional dodgeball players are allowed (Angry actually has a dodgeball rule book and i found out there are actually dodgeball pros) ...... can you believe it?

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Okay guys ...... how wrong is this!

How did afternoondelight get in that pic?

After letting Mr. Patton know some of our issues with attending this event, he replied with some interesting tidbits about rules from other schools and how they are trying hard to help schools participate:

Thank you for your reply Coach Sierant. It's amazing how hard state associations work to keep teams from competing, but we will certainly do everything we can to help you with the process.

First, the tournament is sanctioned by the National Federation of High Schools along with each of the states with participating teams. You can check the NFHS website to see the past sanctioning: http://www.nfhs.org/scriptcontent/Va_custom/SanctioningEvents/Index.cfm?EventID=2444 . About a month before the tournament, we get a list of restrictions from each of the participating states to which we have to comply. For example, Iowa teams may only receive paper awards individually and may not receive trophies. We work through all the restrictions and make sure that our tournament is in compliance. Technically the tournament is hosted by one of the participating schools, although a large group of volunteers (incorporated as a 503(b) non-profit organization) actually run the tournament. Excess proceeds from the tournament go to various charities. In fact, this week, we will be presenting a new laptop to a veteran of the war in Iraq who wrestled in the Clash in 2003. He was severely injured and is receiving the purple heart at his high school this Thursday.

Secondly, we move the tournament around periodically to help with the various restrictions states impose on traveling. Some states can only travel over the holidays and some are explicitly prohibited from traveling between Christmas and New Years. The dates for the next four Clash tournaments are:

2005/2006 - Clash IV, Dec 30-31, 2005
2006/2007 – Clash V, Dec 29-30, 2006
2007/2008 – Clash VI, Jan 4-5, 2008
2008/2009 – Clash VII, Jan 2-3, 2009

Regarding the mileage, that is another one that we run into each year. Strangely, there are some teams in Iowa that may participate while others, a few miles further away are prohibited from participating. Missouri also has a similar restriction. However, Oak Park High School came up two years ago from Missouri to watch and practice with some of the teams, but was not allowed to participate because of the distance. Seems strange to me. As you may have noticed, we have teams from California to New York so somehow teams are finding the time to get here. We had a team from Virginia come last year that chartered a bus. They took off one evening and arrived the next morning. Seemed to work out pretty good.

Another hurdle teams run into is fund-raising for the trip. I would not think that you would have airfare, so your main expense would be lodging. Hotels are very reasonable here ($69 for quadruple occupancy at a 4-star hotel) so expenses seem to be manageable. Please let me know if there is anything that I can do to help with the process. We'd love to see the state of Kansas represented at this fun tournament.

Steven B. Patton, Tournament Chairman
The Clash, National High school Duals
Rochester, MN Cell Phone Number: 507-261-5273

Man i meen the picture on that website is kinda sick superiorsteve. But funny anyways.

i didnt see a fat guy in that picture.

I dunno AD ........ being mistaken for MJ ........ does Carmona know what you look like?

i believe carmonas the chomo (child molester) he's the one who thinks sharing a bed with little boys is beautiful

Well my fellow forum members involved in the R.A.O.S. I just thought I should bring it to your attention that we; the N.R.A.O.S., have finally surpassed your post numbers.

we don't care about u surpassing us we're having fun here in our slice of pardise enough said about that....ms. white called me the other day asking about names 4 the tourniment my dad came up w/ the Steveville Invitational but since its not and invitational i thought Steveville Open was more suitable if anyone has any ideas lets hear him cause we need a name the tourny

do u guys go by ur steve names all the timeor just ont he forum?

Captain ........ you need to get in touch with Angrysteve ....... I think we need a good tourney name and he has one idea ..... like to hear more ...... I will be in touch with him tomorrow about making a web page for the tourney ...... if you know anyone who has experience doing this, let me know ....... we can do it for free but we need to have all our info. straight ..... we're planning on putting on a first class event and will need help gettin the word out ..... AD, we use our Steve names when we are on the foum, when we are in public as a team, and sometimes just when we're together in a casual setting just fooling around ...... it's always appropriate to use a Steve name as a greeting ....... and we support the chanting of "Steve" when we're on the mat at state

Afternoon everyone ......... Camellia White is working on the Dodgeball link to the Turner Recreation website ...... when she is done, we'll post this on the forum ...... August 13th is the date, so start talking it up and getting teams together ...... it will be fun ...... proceeds will go to the Kids Wrestling club and the HS wrestling program

steves whuthappened to ur thread? u guys used to have like 620 posts or somwthing?

This is interesting! .......... must have happened this evening while I was away ........seems apparent that someone deleted their posts ....... oh well, life and RAOS go on ....... gentlemen, thank your parents, coaches and their friends who will be sweating it out at the reacetrack this weekend to pull in a few $$$ for the program ...... sure wish some of you guys were old enough to serve beer legally so us old people didn't have to work all day in this heat! ...... oh wait, you wouldn't be able to wrestle then ...... my bad ......

hey every if ur intrested in the tourny heres the link Steveville Open

are u sure it was RAOS with 640 or were u looking at NRAOS?

Thanks for the link Captain ......... I'll give it a look ..... looks like bigosteve deleted his posts on our thread ...... no worries .... the number of posts is not really an issue ....... funny, it never really has been ..... good job getting the website up ..... we need to add some dodgeball art!

we gotta find some art then cause i can't draw and i know blue can't either

All you have to do is google in "dodgeball" and go to "images" at the top .... this will give you all kinds of photos and billboard stuff ...... find someone to help you with this ..... probably Party Boy knows how to do a website ...... maybe psycho ...... i dunno .... who's our Steve computer "geek"?