You should create a rulebook document, or charter, for your weekly pickup hockey game. I play a lot of pickup hockey and, through running 20Skaters, I’ve played in a wide variety of games. While they are all quite similar, each is also unique. If you...
Attendance for most weekly pickup hockey games runs today on promises. The organizer contacts their list of subs and asks who wants the x available spots this week. Ideally x people promise they will play. One of the main lessons we learned in early...
Rather than us explaining our platform and how our organizers and players feel about it, we’ve started the process of interviewing them directly. We’ll be posting video snippets from these interviews. It’s no secret that we love hockey and pickup hockey a...
95% of the pickup hockey games I play in already so what I call the pickup hockey faceoff. The 5% that don’t......drive me a bit bonkers to be honest. It’s such a simple practice and takes up no real additional time, I think every game should play …
I wrote a longer post over a month ago about the auto response issues triggered by aggressive email virus checkers, and our attempts to solve it. As expected, our fix did impact many of our players negatively in that it required them to login where they...
I recently read over my previous post “Where’s My Email Invite?” and I wanted a redo on that post. Consider this the TL;DR version of that post. via GIPHY You only need to know two things. As soon as you are invited to any game on our platform …
The quick story For games in which you are a full timer or a goalie, when you accept/decline to that game on a device which you are not currently logged into 20Skaters on, you will have to click “Confirm action” on the resulting page. It will now take 2 …
Hey, welcome back to hockey season. Fingers crossed, this may be our first full season after a few years of pandemic impacted ones. A few quick updates. We are operating and more importantly we are hungry to add more weekly pickup hockey games to our...
We get asked this one fairly often. Getting an email from us through and into your email inbox is no easy task. Between us and you, a lot of computers have to receive the email, review it and then decide if they’re willing to pass it through to it …
I recently came across this great post by Justin Bourne. His post is about how you should handle playing with off-season pros but almost all of his points directly apply to your weekly pickup hockey game. I’ll highlight a few here with some weekly pickup...