Bag Manufacturers Upset Over Newer Policy Caveat
Several bag manufacturers have received emails this past week stating they were in violation of the 2021-2022 Bag Manufacturer Guidelines. These companies are “manufacturing and selling bags to the public without an ACL stamp.”
On June 28th, 2021 the American Cornhole League updated their “Cornhole Bag Manufacturer Licensing Guidelines”. The updated guidelines now state,
“All ACL Approved Licensees must put the appropriate designation {stamp} on all bags manufactured and sold to the public.”
How is this different? Well previous policies allowed manufactures, with approved licensees, to sell unstamped bags to the public, with the understanding that those particular bags would not be able to be submitted for ACL approval in the future. Simply put, if you now have a series of bags, approved by the ACL via pro or comp stamp…the remainder of the bags you make and sell to the public MUST have some ACL designation on them.
Who cares? Why would they be mad? If you dive a bit deeper into the bag policy……
Recreational Stamp bags or “Rec bags” are free for ACL submission. It costs the manufactures nothing to get these bags approved! But (always seems to be a but doesn’t there?)…..the ACL gets 5% royalty…..off of bags that cannot be used in ACL sanctioned competitions, because of their “rec stamp” designation.
One bag maker replied, “This situation has to stop. We are the ones supporting them and they rip us apart and change everything.”
Going forward, it seems, bag Manufacturers will need to determine whether they are all in or all out with the American Cornhole League.
As always, I hope you throw it straight and its nothing but four baggers from here on out!
-Sean
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