#2102 Sep 10, 2023

2023 Fall League signups run from September 10 through October 8. Fall League play will start on November 6.

The capo's meeting will be held on Saturday, October 28, at 10:00am at the bocce courts. Attendance is optional, but recommended, especially for new capos and players.

Friday Time Change

The starting time for the Friday Night group is changed from 7:00pm to 6:30pm.

Signing Up

Each team in the 2022 Fall League has a slot reserved in their same group in the 2023 Fall League. As long as you have your roster in order and you pay your registration fee by the end of the signup period your slot is guaranteed.

By default, your 2023 Fall League team will have the same logo as your 2022 Fall League team. Capos may keep the same logo, opt to not have a logo, or upload a new logo. The team signup page now displays the team logo, and has a button to change it.

For electronic scoring security, each team is assigned a four digit team identification number (TIN). Note: your team will be assigned a new TIN for the 2023 Fall League. To score a match, a player has to enter the TIN for one of the teams playing the match. This is to prevent mischievous outsiders from messing with our scores. Your team TIN is displayed on your team signup page, and will be displayed on your team schedule during the season. You may freely share your team pin with your players, but it should not be shared outside your team.

An electronic scoring manual is available in the documents section of this website. There is also a demo system where you can try out electronic scoring at http://Demo.ClaytonBocce.live.

Signup Rules

The signup rules:

• Your roster must have at least six (6) and at most ten (10) players.
• You must keep at least five (5) players from your 2022 Fall League team on your 2023 team.
• After your five returning players, you may add players that have played in the league before, or players that are new to the league, in any combination
• The waiver form was redesigned at the start of the 2021 Spring season. All players who have not yet signed the new waiver will need to sign a copy before the end of the signup period. On your team signup page there is a button to print a waiver form for each player on your team. Or you may download the waiver form here. Once a waiver is signed email a scanned copy to us. Waivers must be actually received by us by midnight October 8 to be accepted. We will not accept waivers after midnight on October 8.
• Every team member must have an email address, telephone number, and zip code of residence on file. If this information has changed for any of your returning players, please update their info.
• The registration fee is $350 per team, regardless of the number of players on your roster.
• You may not make any roster changes after the signup period ends.
• If, at the end of the signup period, you have fewer than ten players on your roster, players from the waiting list may be added to your roster by the League. If the league adds players we charge a $50 per person fee. This fee goes to the league and is not a credit against your team fee.

Signup Procedure

The signup procedure:

• The capo of each team is responsible for signing up their team.
• If you want to change your capo or your team name, please email us with the details.
• If your team will not be playing in the 2023 Fall League, please email us with the details.
• Capos should each have a login account on the bocce website; capo login accounts remain active. However, after a delay, some account links may have been lost. In this case you will need to re-register your Facebook or Google account using the registration code supplied to you via email. New capos will be given instructions on how to create a login account.
• During the signup period, each capo may log in as often as needed to update their roster and pay their registration fee.
• Please update any of your players' emails, phone numbers and/or zip codes that may have changed.
• Registration fee may be paid online using a PayPal account or a major credit card.
• Please help us by paying online. If you cannot pay online, you may pay by check as long as we receive it by the end of your signup period.

#2101 Aug 22, 2023

The CBCA is pleased to announce that the seventh annual Skip Ipsen Memorial Bocce Tournament will be held on Saturday, October 14, 2023 at the Ipsen Family Bocce Park. This tournament honors Skip Ipsen, the man whose vision and generosity set in motion what is now one of the nicest bocce venues anywhere and our very popular open, league, tournament and rental play.

Click here for details.

Click here to sign up.

#2090 Dec 1, 2022

As announced at the Fall Capo meeting, we no longer require that paper scoresheets be filled out and turned in for each match. If your electronic score is complete and correct, there is no need to turn in paper.

We have had electronic scoring for almost two years, and teams have become proficient in keeping score electronically. Over the last three seasons we have had three invalid e-scores out of 847, for a success rate of 99.65%.

With the elimination of paper scoresheets, we can now post results and update standings and stats within 15 minutes after completion of the final match of a session.

Things to Keep In Mind

1. With no paper score, it is important for teams to pay attention to the scoreboards and notify the scorekeeper immediately if there is an error.
2. Our scoring system runs on servers in a secure, commercial grade data center. In the rare case of a system outage, you need to be able to complete the match score on paper. You may want to have a paper scorecard handy, and maybe keep track of the score without bothering to fill in team names, player names, etc.
3. The scoreboards are not essential for electronic scoring; they simply show the results. If the scoreboards are not working, you should continue to keep score electronically.
4. We have wifi at the courts, but it is recommended that you use a device that can connect using cellular data as well as wifi. Then, if there is a wifi outage, you can continue to e-score using your cellular connection.
5. Be sure the device you use for e-scoring is fully charged before the match.

If You Do Not E-Score

Teams are strongly urged to use e-scoring. However, if both teams in a match decline to e-score the match:

1. You must complete, sign, and turn in a paper scoresheet.
2. Players will not receive credit for games played in the match for the purpose of determining playoff eligibility.
3. Team and player statistics will not be compiled for either team, for the season.
4. You will create more work for the league scorekeeper, and bad karma will follow.

#1007 Jun 1, 2016 rev. Jan, 15, 2023

Microsoft No Longer Supported

Microsoft no longer supports federated logins. We can now accept only Google or Facebook account links.

Federated Login

Website access control systems can be quite complicated: userids, passwords, secret questions, password resets, two-factor authentication and more. For the ClaytonBocce.org website we decided not to include another access control system; instead we will use well known existing systems. If you are issued a ClaytonBocce.org account, you will need to have a Google or Facebook account, and you will login using your Google or Facebook userid and password. The technical term for this is Federated Login. We did this for two reasons:

1. These two providers have full-featured, robust, and secure access control systems.
2. Many persons have an account on one of these systems. By leveraging their existing account, they can avoid having yet another userid and password to remember.

How it Works

The process for logging in to ClaytonBocce.org:

1. Click Login in the upper right of this page.
2. On the login page click one of the three buttons to select the login service you wish to use: Google or Facebook.
3. Login on your selected service. (This step may be skipped if you are already logged in to the service.) The first time you login you may be asked to authorize Clayton Bocce to link to your account. After you login you will be returned to the Clayton Bocce website.
4. You will only need to do this the first time you login. Register your Google or Facebook account with your Clayton Bocce account. When your ClaytonBocce.org account is set up, you will receive an email with a one-time registration code. Enter your one-time registration code on the registration page and click the Register button. This will create a link between your Google or Facebook account and your ClaytonBocce.org account.

Notes

• The ClaytonBocce.org login page has a checkbox labeled Remember Me. If you are using a private computer, you may want to check the Remember Me box on the login page. This will cause your browser to store your login credentials on your computer and automatically log you in when you access the Clayton Bocce website. Note: your login credentials are sensitive, so you must use https for automatic login. (ie. https://ClaytonBocce.org).
• This website does not access any of the information in your Google or Facebook account. Your contact list, calendar, friend list, etc. are not visible to this website. Your userid and password are not passed to this website.
• When you are logged in, Login in the upper right corner will be replaced by your name. Click or hover over your name to open a pop-up menu where you may logout or view and update your account profile.

What If I Do Not have a Google or Facebook account?

We anticipate that most bocce league members will have a Google or Facebook account. If you do not have one you will need to create one. The alternative would be for the bocce website to have its own userids and passwords, but then you would have to create one of those, so what's to be gained?

Google accounts are simpler than Facebook, so if you just need an account to access the bocce website, we suggest a Google account.

• To create a Google account:
  • Go to the Google Home page.
  • Click the Sign in button in the upper right corner.
  • Enter your email address, click Create account and select the type of account.
  • Click the Next button and follow the prompts to enter your information.
• To create a Facebook account:
  • Go to the Facebook Login page.
  • Click the Create new account button.
  • Fill in your inforamtion and click the Sign Up button.