Covid Forfeits - Determining Home Team

[WilELee]

How are forfeits being handled in terms of determining home team for later rounds? Treated as if the game was played as scheduled, as a bye, or some other convoluted scheme?

[foxbat]

13 minutes ago, WilELee said:

How are forfeits being handled in terms of determining home team for later rounds? Treated as if the game was played as scheduled, as a bye, or some other convoluted scheme?

If IHSAA treats COVID missed games as forfeits by the team that bows out, then it makes it easier as it would just be handled the way it always has been.  Even if you didn't play, if you were scheduled to play at home you "won" a home game and if you were scheduled to be away you "won" as an visitor.  The potential problem comes in with treating them as byes due to the way that IHSAA treats byes with the team with a bye being considered a visitor as there's a potential for two teams to end up with "byes" via COVID.

[oldtimeqb]

I have been wondering this as well. Not to parse words, but the rules state sectional final ‘non-host.’ So in my interpretation that means if no game exists. Then the team would be a non-host for purposes of determining the next round.

[WilELee]

Just did a little research.

Looks like Jeffersonville is at New Albany for the Sectional 16 championship. Bedford North Lawrence withdrew against New Alabny last week. So the NA-BNL game must be considered an away game for NA. Just as foxbat said.

[coachkj]

Same for Heritage Christian.  We were supposed to play Northeastern last week at home.  They went virtual and had to forfeit.  We are away at Shenandoah this week.  Just as the original draw would have had us doing.