Dayton June ACL Regional brings tiered cornhole action to Kettering

The Dayton June ACL Regional is built less like a backyard stop and more like a ranking checkpoint. Central Ohio players will get a tiered American Cornhole League test at Pauer Sports in Kettering on Saturday, June 13, with the entire event shaped around CPI placement, registration discipline and a clear path for players trying to prove they belong in stronger brackets.

The logistics are strict. Doors open at 9:00 a.m., singles start at 10:00 a.m. and doubles follow after singles end. Registration closes Friday, June 12 at 11:00 p.m., and there are no day-of walk-ups. Players must pay registration fees through ACL Wallet, while cash is accepted for door fees. An ACL account is required to play, and registration runs through the ACL player app.

That setup matters because the old one-size-fits-all division model is gone. Directors will place players by ACL CPI, with current performance and win history driving the tiering. The event lists four singles tiers and four doubles tiers, and the prices drop as the field drops: singles are $30 in Tier 1 and Tier 2, $25 in Tier 3 and $20 in Tier 4. Doubles start at $60 per team in Tier 1 and Tier 2 and fall to $40 per team in Tier 4. The top tier is capped at the highest CPI, so the event is designed to reward players who have already shown they can handle pace and pressure.

That is exactly why this regional carries weight for central Ohio. It gives emerging players a nearby measuring stick without forcing them to travel into a bigger weekend circuit, and it gives more established names a chance to collect points in a field sorted by actual competitive level. Each tier needs at least six players or teams to run, and the directors can combine tiers if registration comes in light, which means the bracket shape itself could tell the story of where the local depth really stands.

The ACL’s national schedule still treats local and regional events as part of the season structure, and the league says 2025 calendar-year registration opened Oct. 1, 2025. Its basic rules set boards 27 feet apart and use eight bags per game, each bag weighing 1 pound and measuring 6 inches by 6 inches, a reminder that even regional play sits inside the same standardized framework as the bigger stops.

Pauer Sports will also enforce the usual venue rules: no outside food or alcohol, food and alcohol available for purchase inside, and a request that players bring lawn chairs. The tiered format mirrors the wider ACL ecosystem, where even lower-profile events are tied to meaningful payouts, from Tier 1 champions collecting $1,650 in Rhode Island to the ACL Pro Tour’s $104,000 ACL-funded Pro Signature payouts and $280,000 at the World Championships. Dayton’s Kettering stop is another rung on that ladder, and for central Ohio players it is the kind of regional that shows exactly who is ready for the next one.