- How does a team apply for a Wild Card position?
Wild Card applications will be included on the Region Intent to Proceed to Provincials Form. Contact your Region G&T Co-ordinator for the deadline for your region.
- Do league games qualify for Wild Card stats?
Only tournament games between ORA teams who are registered in the same division and level will be counted.
- Does a Quebec tournament qualify as an Out-of-Region tournament?
Out of Region refers only to tournaments held inside Ontario, but not in the region of the team in question.
- Do any Quebec tournament games count for stats?
Out-of-Province tournament games count if played against another Ontario team registered in the same division and level with O.R.A.
- How many tournaments must my team attend?
Every team applying to attend Provincials must attend 2 O.R.A. Sanctioned tournaments; one of these must be out-of-region; however both can be out of region (NW exemptions allowed as per Operating Manual G&T section).
- How does G&T get results from the tournaments?
Each O.R.A. tournament host must submit their results within 5 days to the Region G&T Co-ordinator
- How does G&T get results from the out-of-province games that count?
Both teams are required to submit these results to their G&T Co-ordinator as soon as possible after their game(s).
- Who ensures that the stats are correct?
Coaches are required to verify the correct postings for tournament results and to check that ranking statistics on the O.R.A website are accurate. Contact the Region G&T Co-ordinator if there are any errors immediately.
- How do we know what tournaments qualify for using stats?
Tournaments completed by the deadlines qualify. The U12 teams attending Provincials in Nepean have a deadline date of February 7 for tournament stats, along with the U14, U16, U19 "
AA" teams. The U12 teams that will be attending the Provincials in West Ferris have a deadline date of February 21 for their tournament stats, along with the U14, U16, U19 and +18 "A" teams.
- Do the top ten automatically go to Provincials?
For all divisions except U12, the Regions have a rep and the host is allowed a team in each division. Any other openings will be filled with the Wild Cards. A confirmed team may be further down in the rankings i.e. if the Host team is #13 in the rankings then only 9 teams from the top would be attending.
- How does my team know if they received a Wild Card?
Rankings will be shown in alphabetical order until the deadline. At that time the rankings will be verified and sorted by ranking. Wild Card spots will be noted. G&T will then notify their teams of the final rankings and the Wild Card selections.
- How will the U12 groups attending Nepean Provincials be determined?
The overall teams will be decided in mid-January. After that all of those teams will have their stats against each other sorted and be dealt with in a similar manner to Wild Cards. The G&T Committee will then assign the groupings. Rankings will be shown in alphabetical order until the deadline. At that time the rankings will be verified and sorted by ranking. Wild Card Spots will be noted. G&T will then notify their teams of the final rankings and the Wild Card selections.
- How will U12 stats be done for teams wanting to attend the West Ferris Provincial event?
After G&T assign the teams vying for a position at the West Ferris Provincial event, the teams’ stats will be posted removing all those which involve teams attending the Nepean Provincial event.
- Can our team choose which stats they want to use?
No you cannot.
