Seeing as how PCTI has developed into something more than any of us thought it ever would, I figured we needed a set of written rules for anyone to go back to at any point. I will breakdown the integral parts of PCTI. First, here is a list of the Board of PCTI and a brief history:

President and Chief Financial Officer – Daniel A. Krow

Chairman of Competition Committee and Director of Player Personnel – K. Anthony Hopkins II

Vice President and Director of Media Relations - Brent D. Carney

HISTORY:

The concept of PCTI was and is in the forefronts of all pure pick-up basketball players’ minds, but was brought to conception by a group of people. Josh Pitto, along with friend Brian Eskildsen, first approached current President, Daniel Krow, about organizing a trip, similar to a golf trip; they would organize a group of players and get together for a weekend of basketball and hang out when not hooping. Little did they know it would turn into something much greater. After calling around and getting some reactions, PCTI was well on its way to being born. It escalated rapidly from there. First thing was securing a location outside of the unofficial capitol of the South, Nashville, TN (Daniel’s nemesis of a city). Daniel Krow reached out to his good friend Brent “BC” Carney, who loved the idea and had the perfect gymnasium in mind in Lexington, KY at Hoop Dreams Basketball Academy for us to use. With the gym locked down, and most members of PCTI committed, Daniel went on to get referees, Priceline a hotel, while also securing the memory of PCTI lasting forever by getting “Deuce” Hite to video tape all our games, which we would all receive a set of DVDs with all the games on them. BC then took the next big step in organizing the event by getting local staticians, WL Stats, to keep our stats for us, which turned out to be one of the most crucial parts of the weekend. I can’t mention the conception of PCTI without mentioning the man responsible for the name, Joe Thompson. Some historians believe it was a mistype, but no one is complaining anymore about the name of the event. Joe “The Doctor” Thompson was in charge of getting jerseys that had something along the lines of The Pick-up Convention. When the players got their jersey, they were surprised to see the letter P-C-T-I across the front of their jerseys. With a great name for the event, the only left to do was compete!

· Year one of PCTI was held in BC’s current city of Lexington, KY. June 4^th-6^th and proved to be all most members of PCTI could handle. With a lack of knowledge of how to schedule games for a seven (7) game series, playing four games on Sat and two one Sunday made for some ugly basketball and some serious cramps. Led by Mike Hite and Josh Stephen, both averaging over 16 a game, Inglorious Ballers became the 1^st Annual PCTI Champions. Below is a roster with no true draft order of both teams(MVP, D-MVP, All-Tourney):

*Inglorious Ballers	Team 2
(C)Anthony Hopkins	(C)Daniel Krow
Wes Murray	Dawson Huff
Ian Van Horne	Josh Pitto
Mike Hite	Ben Wilson
Josh Stephen	Brent Carney
Joe Thompson	Jeff Sabin
Brian Eskildsen	Bryan McKinney

· With such a successful inaugural PCTI, year two of PCTI was once again held in the great city of Lexington, KY held April 7^th through April 10th. This year some new additions happened that everyone was excited about. Adding some new players (Michael Orr, Chase Hardin, and IR Fill-In Scott Donley) would help the competition be better and make for a more enjoyable weekend. Another good addition was a Thursday night viewing of the previous year’s PCTI while consuming multiple bottles of wine. PCTI went to the max and after a hard fought seven (7) game series, Team Carney won in a close game seven (64-57) to win the series four games to three. Four people from Team Carney averaged double digits over the series. Below is a roster with the draft order of both teams(MVP, D-MVP, All-Tourney):

*Team Carney	Team Eskildsen
(C)Brent Carney	(C)Brian Eskildsen
Mike Hite	Chase Hardin
Scott Donley/IR – Dawson Huff	Ben Wilson
Josh Stephen	*Jeff Sabin*
Joe Thompson	Ian Van Horne
Daniel Krow	Wes Murray
Bryan McKinney	Anthony Hopkins
*Michael Orr*	Josh Pitto
DRAFT DAY TRADE:
Team Carney sends overall #13 pick, Jeff Sabin to Team Eskildsen	Team Esklidsen sends overall #6 pick, Michael Orr to Team Carney

· Year three should prove to be as exciting as ever. PCTI 3 will be held in the Dallas, TX, home of Jeff Sabin and childhood city of Anthony Hopkins, Danny Krow, and Joe Thompson. With the addition to the money making blog, Joe Thompson has once again taken PCTI to the next level, even creating a PCTI Podcast with co-host Brent Carney that is THE buzz news in the podcast world. New additions to the roster (Michael Beasley and Patrick Higdon) are only going to bolster the enjoyment of this weekend. The addition of a third referee will be a significant change for the 3^rd year that should help cover more angles. Exciting things on the horizon at PCTI changes venues for the first time. The roster below is in order of draft:

Team Breaking Bad	Team Legs Feed the Kitten
(C)Josh Stephen	(C)Jeff Sabin
Brent Carney	Ben Wilson
Brian Eskildsen	Daniel Krow
Joe Thompson	Ian Van Horne
Scott Donley	Michael Orr
Patrick Higdon*/*IR – Dawson Huff	Michael Beasley
Anthony Hopkins	Bryan McKinney
Josh Pitto	Wes Murray

HISTORY OF LEADERS:

MVP	DEFENSIVE MVP	ALL-TOURNAMENT
Brian Eskildsen (2010)	Brent Carney (2010)	Ben Wilson (2)
Josh Stephen (2011)	Jeff Sabin (2011)	Josh Stephen
		Mike Hite
		Josh Pitto
		Joe Thompson

Points:

	Total	Average
Overall – Josh Stephen	199	15.31
2010 – Mike Hite	100	16.7
2011 – Josh Stephen	103	14.7

Rebounds:

	Total	Average
Overall – Josh Stephen	106	8.15
2010 – Brian Eskildsen	50	10
2011 – Josh Stephen	64	9.1

Assists:

	Total	Average
Overall – Josh Pitto	39	3.0
2010 – Josh Pitto	24	4.0
2011 – Brian Eskildsen	18	3.0

Steals:

	Total	Average
Overall – Josh Pitto	14	1.08
2010 – Josh Pitto	9	1.5
2011 –Joe Thompson and Anthony Hopkins	7	1.0

Blocks:

	Total	Average
Overall – Brian Eskildsen	10	0.91
2010 – Brian Esklidsen	7	1.4
2011 – Michael Orr	9	1.29

CAPTAINS:

Captains are determined by their peers. Following each PCTI, each participating member from PCTI votes for an overall MVP, a Defensive MVP, and 3 different All-Tournament Team members. The MVP and the Defensive MVP are deemed Captains for the following year. Those voted on cannot turn down being a captain except for these reason:

1. If the person voted for captain has been a captain before AND in that year his team got swept, he is no longer allowed to be captain.

2. The person voted to be captain has been a captain at least once in the past two (2) years, that person has the option to be captain or not.

A) If they choose not to be captain, the second captain has to choose one of the remaining 3 people on the All-Tournament Team to be the opposing captain.

B) If this happens with BOTH captains and they BOTH choose to not be captains, The Board of PCTI will choose 2 new captain from All-Tournament Team.

C) If someone from the All-Tournament Team is chosen to replace a captain, he has no choice but to be captain.

TEAMS:

Teams are determined by the two (2) captains have a draft, in snake fashion (Captain A gets first pick, Captain B gets second and third, Captain A gets fourth and fifth, and so on). The person who won overall MVP (or his replacement) gets his choice on picking first or deferring to pick second. The following is a list of players that can be drafted (including potential captains):

Josh Stephen	Anthony Hopkins	Daniel Krow
Brent Carney	Josh Pitto	Joe Thompson
Michael Orr	Jeff Sabin	Brian Eskildsen
Michael Beasley	Ben Wilson	Wes Murray
Bryan McKinney	Scott Donley	PERMANENT RESERVE
Dawson Huff	Ian Van Horne	Patrick Higdon

For any year where we have someone drop out or be injured, Patrick Higdon will be their replacement. If there is an instance where we need another replacement, The Board of PCTI will contact their first name on the list of Replacement Options.

Each team must come up with a team name before the current PCTI.

GAME RULES:

A hybrid of (mainly) college, high school, and professional rules. Here is a list of rules that differ from the NCAA rules:

· Twenty (20) minute halves, running clock, except the last two (2) minutes and at timeouts.

· No thirty-five (35) second shot clock, until we get a gym with that capability.

· No non-charge circle.

· Two (2) time-outs per half. A team can use one (1) timeout to advance the ball to half court in the last two (2) minutes of each half.

· Six (6) fouls to foul out of the game.

· A person can enter the lane on a free throw ON the release of the ball.

· Depending on gym, will determine the three (3) point line. If college line is on the floor, we play by that.

· Technical fouls result in one (1) free throw for any player on the floor for the opposing team. Team with possession will retain possession.

· Five (5) minute overtimes.

· Best of seven (7) series over the weekend. Minimum of six (6) games. If there is a sweep or 4-1 series win, the teams will be switched up, which will be determined by the Board of PCTI.

LOCATION:

We will try to change the location from year to year. We want to go to a city where one of the people participating in PCTI lives in order to make the scheduling of the event as easiest as possible. We are going to try and avoid Nashville for the most part. The location will ultimately be determined by the entire group. The Board of PCTI, along with the participating member of PCTI that currently resides in the chosen city, will be in charge of putting the weekend of PCTI together.

SCHEDULE AND PRICING:

The schedule for the weekend will be determined by President and CFO, Daniel Krow. Usually the festivities for the weekend will start on Thursday evening with a viewing of the previous year’s PCTI and consumption of alcoholic beverages. We will then have two (2) games Friday, three (3) games Saturday, and two (2) games Sunday, with tip being determined by the aforementioned Daniel Krow. We will have an attendance mandatory Saturday evening dinner and immediately following, an optional night out.

Pricing will most likely differ from year to year, but here is a list of costs we will most likely always have:

GYM

HOTEL (3 NIGHTS)

VIDEOGRAPHER

REFEREES

SCOREKEEPER

STAT KEEPERS

TRANSPORTATION

Food and drinks will be at your own expense.

EXCESS FUND:

As some of you know, the blog we use [http://pctinvitational.blogspot.com/] has been creating some excess funds with the amount of interest and traffic it has generated. Since our award winning staff is made up of some of PCTI’s finest members, the creator, Joe Thompson, along with the Board of PCTI has decided to unselfishly invest the money back into the event. There for our President and CFO, Daniel Krow, will be in charge of distributing the “Slush Fund” how he sees fit for the good of the entire group.

Thank you for you participation. With any suggestions, questions, or concerns, please contact Anthony Hopkins at ahop31@gmail.com.