by slapper » Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:48 pm
Valentine Massacre was a good name for that tournament.
I heard a coach from one team talking to a coach from a different team say the format changed 3 times durring the tournament. Is was a 4 gg on Friday, then a 6 pool to a single e with all pool games being 60 minute drop dead when they got there on Sat morning, then after game 3 of the tournament is changed to 60 minutes finish the inning.
From what I saw there were not enough umpires, the games were 3 hours or more behind by the end of the day on Saturday. Games were moved to different fields to speed things up but there were no umpires and in one instance 1 team was moved to another field but the team they were playing was moved to another field. I heard several teams did not come back for the 2nd day of the tournament because things were so bad. Maybe thats why the teams that placed did as good as they did.