16 or 17 Teams to compete for Wifflefest 14 Championships

Cross your fingers all you Wifflefest competitors, you will need all the luck you can get. Seventeen, no wait sixteen, teams are confirmed to participate in the Justin Osborne All American Wifflefest 14. We had one team unable to secure a fifth player after registering and so they are now combining with another team.

Pregame ceremonies will begin at 9:00 am at Fruitland Community Church with first pitch slated to be thrown out at 9:30 am sharp. With an even number of teams, this year's tournament format has been adjusted to ensure an equal playing field and an abundant opportunity to play more games.

Each team will be guaranteed to play five games this year, with four of those games coming in a pool play format. After pool play, each team will be seeded according to how they performed (win/loss, runs allowed) into two single elimination brackets. There will be a Gold Championship Bracket and a Silver Consolation Bracket. Winners of both brackets will receive the traditional golden or silver wiffleball necklaces, respectively.

The championship games are slated to begin at 6:15 on the Church Field, under the lights.

Here is a sneak peak at the Wifflefest 14 Schedule can be found here: SCHEDULE

You can also download the Tourney Machine application
on your smartphone and follow all the excitement by searching for the Wifflefest 14 event.

Countdown to Wifflefest - We are buying some balls

It is really hard to have a wiffleball game, even harder to have a Wifflefest without the appropriate quantity of balls on hand. Today, I am ordering 48 official wiffle balls from the Connecticut Store. The Connecticut Store is the official marketplace for all things wiffle.... bats, books, apparel, and balls.

Our family was able to the store last summer, on a trip to the east coast. Due to a three hour traffic jam in Rhode Island, we made it to the store after closing. We were able to peer into the windows to see the wiffleball making machine as well as a 1/2 complete crossword puzzle. Needless to say, it was the highlight of our trip.

The order will be placed in about an hour, and then the wiffle balls will be hand packaged into original wiffle ball boxes. After each ball is packaged individually, they will then be combined into a much larger brown box and shipped to my location. We will then keep them in a humidified chamber to preserve their perfection until Wifflefest, ensuring that each ball will be perfectly perfect in every way.
Like a newborn babe snatched from a mother's womb, so also the Justin Osborne All American Wifflefest's wiffleballs will be handled for the first time, without blemish, at Wifflefest. Past rumors of Justin Osborne actually creating his own wiffleballs with 'magic' are not completely true. This year we will have a pretend ball detector in place for each participant to pass through upon entering the Wifflefest grounds, ensuring that no off-branded ball makes it anywhere close to a field. Wifflefest is a gun free/drug free/fake wiffleball free zone. We have ordered 50 wiffleballs for this year's event.

Wifflefest 14 Promotional Video

Here is the link to the Wifflefest 14 promo video. Prepare your hearts.
If you make it through the entire video, you receive free admission to Wifflefest!

Wifflefest 14 - Registration now Open

The Justin Osborne All American Wifflefest 14 is now open and accepting registrations for our great event. This year, the event will be held on October, 2019, starting at 9 am. Teams will compete in a pool play into a single elimination bracket. Four custom designed wiffleball fields. This year's event will take place at Fruitland Community Church.


Registration will be limited to the first 24 teams to sign up for wifflefest, with the minimum five players per team (2 girl minimum). Teams can have more than 5 players, rotating fielders and using a continuous batting order.

This year Wifflefest will benefiting the Care Portal of SEMO

. This is an awesome opportunity for Wifflefest attendees to bless a local organization. Cash, check and online donations will be taken during the tournament.



There is no cost to enter a team at Wifflefest.



To sign up, just click the sign up now link on the side of this blog and someone will be in contact with you. Start practicing!