Here is a letter I received from the Commissioner of the CIF North Coast Section (emphasis added):
"In an effort to keep you up-to-date with the progress of the NCS Football Championships I wanted to share the following:
As you are most likely aware North Coast, Oakland and San Francisco Sections have been impacted the greatest concerning the poor air quality caused by the Paradise fire. NCS has 12-team brackets, with the authority to take up to an additional four teams, if teams apply, taking four weeks to play games. Even with the relief granted by the CIF, moving CIF Nor-Cal games back a week, NCS will not complete our D2-D5 football brackets prior to Saturday night’s deadline of determining the teams that would have an opportunity to move to the CIF Nor-Cal Championships, which will take place the weekend of December 7-8.
The Open Championship game (De La Salle vs. Liberty) will finish, as well as Division 1, where the champion is displaced by the Open Division runner-up, and D6, our 8-person championship, where there is no advancement to a CIF Championship, but will end this weekend (Branson vs. South Fork). Therefore, Division 1 will finish next weekend, Open Champion will most likely be the Open team in the CIF State Championships, and the runner-up in the Open will be placed in a high division of the CIF Nor-Cals.
In D2-D5, schools will be allowed (granted by the CIF) to complete the championship (weekend of Dec. 7-8) and not advance to the CIF Nor-Cals. NCS has polled all 16 semifinal schools and asked if they would like to finish the NCS Championship, or do they wish to advance to the CIF Nor-Cals. All schools have responded, but in the interest of competition this weekend, information will not be shared until after the semifinals are completed.
Therefore, in any bracket where there is not consensus about finishing the NCS Championships, NCS staff will follow the outlined procedures adopted by the NCS Executive Committee and determine any advancing team first based on any head-to-head competition, and if there is no head-to-head competition, a coin flip. Any coin flip will be conducted at the NCS Office, Sunday, December 2nd, 8:30 a.m. The NCS Commissioner will conduct any coin flip and use a NFHS coin. No different than a NCS game, the higher seeded team will call either heads, or tails. I will flip the coin and allow the coin to land on the office floor. Th winner will be the advancing team. The loser of the coin toss will conclude their 2018 football season.
Any bracket that does not conclude with a champion determined via competition will result in a vacated championship. No awards will be presented and no school will be listed as a champion for historical purposes. The unfinished bracket will be posted on our history page for football. For those brackets where there is a conclusion awards will be presented, champions declared, and NCS is working with the CIF and other Northern CA Section (right now Central Coast, Sac-Joaquin and Northern Sections) to potentially schedule one more game for the section champions. Any such games will not be CIF Nor-Cal Championship games, just Bowl Games, an effort to provide NCS Champions with one additional competition, as typically done through the CIF Nor-Cal Championship process..."
"In an effort to keep you up-to-date with the progress of the NCS Football Championships I wanted to share the following:
As you are most likely aware North Coast, Oakland and San Francisco Sections have been impacted the greatest concerning the poor air quality caused by the Paradise fire. NCS has 12-team brackets, with the authority to take up to an additional four teams, if teams apply, taking four weeks to play games. Even with the relief granted by the CIF, moving CIF Nor-Cal games back a week, NCS will not complete our D2-D5 football brackets prior to Saturday night’s deadline of determining the teams that would have an opportunity to move to the CIF Nor-Cal Championships, which will take place the weekend of December 7-8.
The Open Championship game (De La Salle vs. Liberty) will finish, as well as Division 1, where the champion is displaced by the Open Division runner-up, and D6, our 8-person championship, where there is no advancement to a CIF Championship, but will end this weekend (Branson vs. South Fork). Therefore, Division 1 will finish next weekend, Open Champion will most likely be the Open team in the CIF State Championships, and the runner-up in the Open will be placed in a high division of the CIF Nor-Cals.
In D2-D5, schools will be allowed (granted by the CIF) to complete the championship (weekend of Dec. 7-8) and not advance to the CIF Nor-Cals. NCS has polled all 16 semifinal schools and asked if they would like to finish the NCS Championship, or do they wish to advance to the CIF Nor-Cals. All schools have responded, but in the interest of competition this weekend, information will not be shared until after the semifinals are completed.
Therefore, in any bracket where there is not consensus about finishing the NCS Championships, NCS staff will follow the outlined procedures adopted by the NCS Executive Committee and determine any advancing team first based on any head-to-head competition, and if there is no head-to-head competition, a coin flip. Any coin flip will be conducted at the NCS Office, Sunday, December 2nd, 8:30 a.m. The NCS Commissioner will conduct any coin flip and use a NFHS coin. No different than a NCS game, the higher seeded team will call either heads, or tails. I will flip the coin and allow the coin to land on the office floor. Th winner will be the advancing team. The loser of the coin toss will conclude their 2018 football season.
Any bracket that does not conclude with a champion determined via competition will result in a vacated championship. No awards will be presented and no school will be listed as a champion for historical purposes. The unfinished bracket will be posted on our history page for football. For those brackets where there is a conclusion awards will be presented, champions declared, and NCS is working with the CIF and other Northern CA Section (right now Central Coast, Sac-Joaquin and Northern Sections) to potentially schedule one more game for the section champions. Any such games will not be CIF Nor-Cal Championship games, just Bowl Games, an effort to provide NCS Champions with one additional competition, as typically done through the CIF Nor-Cal Championship process..."
