London Wiffleball Tournament Date Announced

The long awaited date for the 14th annual London Wiffleball Tournament was finally released a couple of days ago - July 14 (Saturday). Brian Wheeler, the tournament's organizer, emailed us with the date and his hopes for it this year. Some leading commissioners of leagues in the NWLA that went to the tournament last year plan on getting more leagues involved. The plan is to get as many NWLA teams together the following Sunday to play each other. The event could also serve as a meet and greet that would otherwise never take place. Wheeler said in his email that he will cooperate with the NWLA in their efforts to play on July 15. Leagues with teams that plan on attending include, Wiffle in SouthEast Michigan, Potomac Wiffleball League, Kalamazoo Wiffleball League, HRL: Twin Cities, Ontario County Wiffle Association, National Wiffleball League, and Suburban Chicago Wiffleball League. If this occurred, it would be the largest known summit for independent wiffleball leagues to ever take place - a truly historic event. More details on this event as the tournament date comes nearer.

Little Taste of London Wiffleball Tournament Footage

While I attended the 13th Annual London Wiffleball Tournament in Ohio last weekend I took over 4 hours of footage and am a little lost when it comes to sorting through it to edit some final video. So if you were wondering while you visited the site this morning why there was no post for the day...it's because I began the laborious task of editing video. Hooray. Anyway, I finally threw a small clip together as an appetizer of videos to come. Ideally most of the videos would be up by now but let's be realistic. This isn't NBC and there's not 50 people working on audio and video here. While the video is alright at 360p you can watch it in 480p, 720p, or even 1080p if you so desire. Enjoy.

Wiffler's Digest attending London Wiffleball Tournament

EXCITING NEWS --- The 13th Annual London Wiffleball Tournament is coming up and Wiffler's Digest will be there! Wiffler's Digest will be taking photos, recording game-play, and doing interviews. Tournament is on Saturday - July 16th in London, Ohio.

Tournament watch

So if you're into tournaments and have never heard of this tournament or just have never been...you should check out the London Wiffleball Tournament. It's one of the longest running wiffleball tournaments in the country. The geography of this tournament is refreshing too, seeing as to how it's in London, Ohio. Far too often are the big tournaments held near the west coast or in the New England area. So having a tournament in the Midwest is pretty rad...share the love. Fun fact: it's the largest slow-pitch wiffleball tournament in the world. Brian Wheeler is the guy who runs the tournament and he does a great job. It's a pretty elaborate set up. He sets up 16 wiffleball fields at the Bogenfire Farm in London, Ohio. So...it's no small tournament. Over 60 teams competed last year (mostly from the Columbus/Chillicothe area) in the one-day tournament. This summer the tournament will be held on July 16, 2011. It's $100 bucks per team to register and each team can have 6 players on the roster.

If you've never competed in a tournament this would be a great tournament to start out with. Register on their website and if you have any questions then contact Brian Wheeler (bwheele@columbus.rr.com)