Orlando Social Cornhole - Summer 2025
Players
Total team size is 4 to 6 players.
Orlando Social Cornhole may add players to teams, as needed, up to the maximum of 6 players per team.
Each team must include at least one male and at least one female.
Every player must wear an official Orlando Social Cornhole shirt in their team’s color.
Only registered players may pitch in the games.
Games
Teams play 2 matches per night.
Each match consists of 3 games.
Every present player must pitch at least 4 bags each match and be given equal opportunity to play. This is a social league!
Layout
Court: the total area of play consisting of two boards that are 27 feet apart from the front of the hole of one board to the front of the hole of the other board.
Pitcher’s Box: a rectangle measuring 3 feet wide by 4 feet long (length of board) on either side of a board. Each player must pitch from within the Pitcher’s Box.
Lane: two Pitcher’s Boxes directly across from one another on two different boards on one Court. Players on the same team must line up in the Pitcher’s Boxes directly across from each other in the same Lane, not diagonally from each other in opposite Lanes.
Foul Line: the front end of the board, which is also the front edge of a player’s Pitcher’s Box.
Pre-Game
Teams start each game with rock-paper-scissors (or any other mutually agreed method) to determine which team gets the election of choosing their Lane or the throwing order. If the winning team chooses their Lane, then the losing team chooses whether to throw first or last. If the winning team chooses the throwing order, then the losing team chooses their Lane.
Each team positions 2 of its players in the same Lane.
Each team selects the set of 4 bags it will use for the game. These can be any 4 of the same bag (no mixed bag types) – league bags or personal player bags.
Unless unanimously decided otherwise by all players on a Court, it is customary to complete a “down and back” practice round before beginning each game.
Scoring
Games consist of rounds in which the players on one end of a Court alternate in pitching 4 bags each at the board on the opposite end of the Court.
The team that pitches first in the first round is as determined by rock-paper-scissors, as explained above. The first pitch in every subsequent round is given to the team that last scored.
A bag lying on top of the board, or hanging in the hole, at the end of a round is 1 point.
A bag through the hole at the end of a round is 3 points.
A bag that touches the ground (or another bag on the ground) at any time after being pitched is 0 points and must be removed from the board (if all or part of the bag is on the board).
If upon the release of a bag, a player does not have one part of one foot inside the Pitcher’s Box and/or is not completely behind the Foul Line, then that bag is 0 points and must be removed from the board (if all or part of the bag is on the board).
In each round, only one team scores. At the end of the round, subtract the lower team’s points from the higher team’s points. Example: If, at the end of a round, your team scores 5 (one in the hole and 2 on the board) and the other team scores 4 (one on the hole and 1 on the board), then your team scores 1 point for that round.
The first team to reach or exceed 21 points at the end of a round wins the game.
Team captains are responsible for entering the match results in the Leage Linq app.
Playoffs
Playoff games follow the same rules as above. The additional rules for the playoffs are:
Each match is the best of 3 games. The third game is only played if necessary.
Every player must pitch at least 4 bags in one of the first 2 games. Any absent players below the minimum team size of 4 are also included in this requirement - this is effectively 4 bags off the board in a round.
No player from the first game can pitch in the second or third game until every other player on the team has pitched at least 4 bags. Any absent players below the minimum team size of 4 are also included in this requirement.