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SAN DIEGO - New Year’s is a time to ring in new resolutions and new ways of doing things. For the year 2012 the Commanding General’s Cup will also have a few changes.
Normally each section in a command could form teams to compete and the points they earned went straight to the command. At the end of the year, all the points would be tallied and the command with the most points would earn the CG’s Cup of Excellence and a monetary prize.
Now, the CG’s Cup scoring system has been reworked so that when shops enter a season to play, they earn points for their team rather than their commands.
Despite the new changes, the competition is still only open to Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego’s active duty members and Department of Defense employees.
“By removing some of the restrictions for participation in the program, we believe that more people will form teams or join other existing teams,” said Renaud Villedieu, athletic director, varsity sports, Semper Fit. “One of the major changes involves the point system. At the end of the season, the section that earned the most points will receive the money. No longer will Headquarters and Service Battalion or Recruit Training Regiment collect all the points from sections which fall under them. So bottom line is, the $300, $200 and $100 checks go to the team that earned them and not up to the battalion or regimental level.”
According to Rachel Dickinson, intramural sports coordinator, Semper Fit, Headquarters and Service Battalion and the Recruit Training Regiment have been broken down into the individual shops and are now competing independently.
“We were approached by some of the lieutenant colonels and sergeant majors in the commands to see if we could restructure the program to make it fairer fight for the cup for smaller commands,” said Dickinson. “This has been a long process to make this happen and now that offices are competing for themselves instead of a huge command it may make for an interesting year.”
Any section aboard the depot may enter a team for the CG’s Cup, but at least 75 percent of the team’s roster must be members of that section. Also, at game time the team must maintain the 75 percent of their section playing.
According to Dickinson, if a section doesn’t have enough players to form a team they have two options. They can either recruit free agents from any section on the depot, or they may become free agents themselves and play for any team on the depot. A player can only be a free agent if their work section does not have a team.
If there are shops out there that continually sweep other teams off the field at sports such as soccer, softball and dodgeball they should not worry if they will be able to participate again this year.
The fun runs will also remain a part of the CG’s Cup competition and count toward point occurrence as well as doubles events.
Doubles events are events were a team is comprised of two players. Placement points will be divided 50 percent to each player, if the players are from different shops.
For all events one entry point is given to teams for males and another entry point for females. If there is an all male or all female team, they will only receive one point vice two. So it pays to have a coed team.
Each event has a different amount of points awarded for teams that place first, second and third.
According to Dickinson, all of the events that are normally offered with the CG’s Cup will still be offered this year.
“The prizes have remained the same,” said Dickinson. “First place wins the Commanding General’s Cup of Excellence and $300 towards their party funds, second place wins $200 towards their party funds and third place $100 towards their party funds.”
This revamp will have to take baby steps in the beginning, but it should develop into a change that is here to stay.
“I believe this could be a beneficial change,” said Dickinson. “I am excited to see how this new format develops as 2012 gets under way.”
| Date Taken: | 12.16.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 12.20.2011 12:24 |
| Story ID: | 81612 |
| Location: | SAN DIEGO , CALIFORNIA, US |
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