COVID Cornhole Club

Greg Noble September 20, 2020

To start our year off we planned two clubs, one for Freshmen/Sophomores and one for Junior/Seniors. The purpose was to help gauge how many people would show up. Another goal was to put on a fun, yet COVID safe, club. We met outside at a church parking lot. For the Freshman/Sophomore club we did a round-robin corn hole tournament!

We planned to have 28 participants. With that number we would have 14 teams of 2 and two teams would be at each board. We would need a total of 7 sets of boards. We ended up having 24 participants and used 6 of the sets. 

How It Worked

Everyone wore a mask and everyone had the same partner the entire time. We encouraged everyone to bring a partner and come up with a team uniform of some sort.

Example: Noah and Will wear Pinecrest basketball shirts. Kendall and Rachel wear tie dyed shirts.

Our leaders came prepared with something they could use for a team outfit in case there is a kid who needed a partner. We just asked that they keep it simple.

Teams used the same set of beanbags for every game and were only allowed to touch their own bags. We asked that they did not help the other team pick their bags up.

Games were played to 11 points with points canceling out, “net scoring.” Bags on the board were worth 1 and bags in the hole were worth 3. Scoring example: Team A gets 2 bags on the board and Team B gets 1 bag in the hole. Team B receives 1 point and Team A receives 0.

THEME ROUNDS

We put a little Young Life spin on typical cornhole and played 5 different rounds with different “themes.”

Round 1: Normal.

Round 2: Speed round, points do not cancel out.

Round 3: “Dale Earnhardt round,” the first team to score three points knocks the other team out from scoring any points on that turn.

Round 4: Get three of the four bags in the hole and you automatically win the game.

Round 5: Normal

Other options for theme rounds:

  • Backward- throw the bags over your head facing the other way. Points are doubled.
  • Opposite hand- throw the bags with your “off-hand,” points are doubled
  • Kan-Jam- your partner gets to hit the bag and tries to hit it (open-palm) into the hole. See this post for more explanation.

After a winner has been determined. The winning team will move up (closer to stage) and the losing team will move down (away from the stage).  The goal was for folks to play a new team every round. 

We also used sidewalk chalk to draw a circle 6 feet apart which were used as waiting areas for one teammate while the other one tossed. 

After each round we had leaders dressed in ref outfits run down the line and give hand sanitizer to everyone.

We started a little late and ended up only playing 4 rounds. It would have taken us 1 hour to play all 5 rounds. After the final round we announced the prize winners.

We gave away 3 sets prizes:

  • the team with the most wins
  • the team with the most losses
  • the team with the best team uniform.

After we announced winners one of our leaders gave a talk. It was a fun and safely social distanced night!

One pro-tip- if you have a “Play It Again Sports store” in your town, you can often get good bags there for cheaper than other places!

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