These Thanksgiving tournament names come five at a press, from Wishbone Classic to Leftovers Invitational. The first set fits any sport; basketball, golf and backyard games have their own.
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Thanksgiving basketball tournament names
The Basketball set covers the whole long weekend: Thanksgiving Eve Tip-Off for the night before, Turkey Day Tip-Off Classic, Thanksgiving Friday Shootout, and Leftovers Threes for a three-on-three day. Varsity vs. Alumni Thanksgiving Game is for the graduates who are back in town, and Feast of Fundamentals Jamboree is for the youngest teams.
Thanksgiving golf tournament names
The Golf set leans on the scramble: Tee Before Turkey Scramble, Birdies Before the Bird Scramble, Scramble for the Last Drumstick. Wedge of Pie Classic turns a club into dessert, and Turkey Leg Dogleg Classic bends a hole around the bird.
Questions and answers
What are good Thanksgiving tournament names?
Wishbone Classic, Golden Drumstick Trophy, Gobbler Gauntlet and Cornucopia Cup work for any sport and any age group. For an event with a sense of humor there are Pie on the Line Playoffs, Pop-Up Timer Playoffs and Pass the Stuffing Playoffs.
What are Thanksgiving Day golf tournament names?
Tee Before Turkey Scramble, Thanksgiving Morning Nine and Up and Down Before the Feast Open are for a round on the day itself. Thanksgiving Eve Sundown Nine and Friday Leftovers Scramble sit on either side of it.
What is a Thanksgiving tournament name for a family game?
Family and backyard games has 29: Thanksgiving Cousins Cup, Halftime Pie Bowl and Sweatshirts vs. Flannels Thanksgiving Bowl for the yard, While the Turkey Rests Classic for a quick one, and Pie and Pinochle Tournament for the card table.
Is any of these a real Thanksgiving tournament?
None was copied from one. Each name was looked up in the English Wikipedia on 2026-10-12, and nine that matched a real competition, game, award or broadcast came off the list. A town or a school may still run an event under one.
A list of 116 Thanksgiving tournament names written by Wheel of Teams on 2026-10-12 and filed in four groups. They are our own suggestions. Every name names the event (a classic, a shootout, a scramble, a cup), not a team, and carries a word of the day or of its table: the turkey, a wishbone, the stuffing, the pie, the leftovers, or the day's own name. The basketball and golf terms in the names were looked up on 2026-10-12 in the English Wikipedia's Glossary of basketball terms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_basketball_terms), 3x3 basketball (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3x3_basketball), Glossary of golf (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_golf) and Variations of golf (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variations_of_golf), text under CC BY-SA 4.0. No name was taken from an event, a league, a school, a sponsor or a course, and the football games and road races that are known by a Thanksgiving name are left out. Each name, and each run of two and of three words inside it, was looked up in the English Wikipedia on 2026-10-12 as an article title, and each whole name as an exact phrase in the text of its articles; seven names that stood there as a real competition, game, fight card or broadcast were taken off the list. A second read the same day took off three more: one close to a football broadcast's award, one built on the name of a well-known three-on-three tournament, and one that read badly alone. That look-up does not find a local event, and no web search was run. Compared by script the same day with every other list on this site: no name is repeated. Nothing was checked against a trademark register, so a local tournament may share a name by coincidence. Licence: own work