Summer/Fall 2026 PLAYOFF FORMAT

• Any team that has ever won a league championship since moving to the Papillion landing is ineligible to drop into a lower division during the playoffs.
• Currently this includes: Bandits, CSK, Martin Jewelry, Oskie, & Team Black.
• All other teams are eligible to drop a division if they lose in the playoffs
• Rec teams are the lowest division and will not have a lower division to drop to if they lose.
• Teams always can opt into a higher playoff if communicated before the final week of the session
• Gold/Pro and Silver Playoffs will be 15 minute halves
• Semi-Pro, Bronze, and Rec will be 12 minute halves
• Gold Playoffs will have 3 refs for the championship. We try to provide 3+ refs for all gold games if possible.
• Only rostered FT players are eligible unless numbers allow rostered subs. Non-rostered subs can be used at the cost of points every single game played with that sub. Check the rule book for further clarification. 
• High seed is the home team in all brackets. Home team chooses jersey color and auto-wins coin toss and pick Offense, defense or direction. Sides and ball flip no matter what at half. Higher divisions will be considered a higher seed if they match up. (example: Semi-pro 8 seed is a higher seed than Rec 1 seed)
• Game time is forfeit time.
• Roster check must be done 5 min within the illegal player playing. Results will be forfeit if a team uses an illegal player
• Only players that have signed up via the digital roster are allowed to play in the playoffs
• Teams must have 2 uniform colors and away team must change. Failure to do so is forfeit
• We will start using a reseeding system in the lower brackets. This is to create the most fair match ups and hopefully eliminate playing the same team multiple times
• Mercy rule will be on in all games that a team has played more than 1 game per night. If one team has played 2 games but the other has not it will only end the game if the team that has not played a 2nd game is the winner. (example: Team A had a bye and is playing Team B that won a game already on that same day. If Team A gets up the required amount at the specified time they will win by mercy rule and move on. If Team B is up by the required amount at the specified time they will have to finish the game). If both teams have played the mercy rule will be in full effect.
• On weeks that Kendall is playing he will be providing a "tournament director" that will keep things running for him.
• All teams are allowed to "Opt-up" to a higher tournament bracket if they would like. This must be done by Week 4 (9/10/26). This will not change their posted schedule but will put them as the lowest seed in the bracket they would like to opt-in to. The benefit to this is that the higher the brackets the easier it is to get some sort of prize.
• Gold/Pro - Free session / rings or medals / MVP prize / $300 towards custom uniforms via Shruumz
• Silver - 1/2 off next session / Rings or Medals
• Bronze  - Rings or Medals

ALL THE FOLLOWING TIMES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE - This will only happen due to a weather date, a team opting up,  or ref coverage issues.