***NEW TOURNAMENT OPTION FOR MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND***

[Pony Boy]

You are right about the Stockton fields. With all the budget cuts their fields are not taken care of the way they use to. Arnaiz are good fields except you have to bring your hard hat, but I hear he is putting nets up finally!! Definately they are some things that need to be fixed locally!!
There is nothing wrong with competition as far as tournaments go!! Let's keep all the Organizations/TD accountable!!

[grass stain]

BTW, the 14U friendly at Granada High School in Livermore this past Sunday was really well run. Volunteers were out on the field between every game dragging the fields, chalking etc.. Things pretty much ran on schedule and the umpires were solid. For the $ per team, it was definitely money well spent.

Kudos to the organizers and volunteers for this event.

[triplecrown]

WHEN ARE GAME TIMES GOING TO BE POSTED

[fatcat]

Brackets and times posted.

[lv2earat8]

Can't wait for some real SOFTBALL!

[Mustafa]

Wow! Brackets out already?! Looks like it should be a lot of fun. Lot of good match-ups in the 18G division. Good luck to everyone!!

[lookingIN]

{ Anyone else noticing the 12u Lincoln Memorial Day Monday brackets seem a little off? Seems there are some 2 seeds that will make it into the gold bracket while there are other 2 seeds that will not make it.

Examples:

The most glaring example is Pool 10 which contains the Breeze 98 and TC Smash yet only the #1 seed gets to go to the Gold bracket.(Not being able to have 2 of the top 5 Norcal teams play in the same Monday Gold bracket is kind of silly. I would imagine either one would easily walk away with the Silver bracket.)

Pool 2 has the EC Hotshots and Valley Stompers but only 1 gets to go to the Gold bracket

Meanwhile Pools 1, 3, 5 and 7 all get #1 and #2 seeds in the gold bracket where the likely #2 seed will probably have an early exit(no disrespect to those teams).

The system does seem to work for Pool 6 which has the Red Grapes(shot out to Tenshun...haha) and Hype 98. Both those teams should be worthy enough to make it into to the Gold bracket.

Not saying whoever made the brackets didn't put in alot of work and maybe there are some teams that are flying under the radar that are ready to step up but a better bracket/pool system seems to be needed. Maybe something like all the #1 and #2 seeds go into the Gold or just all #1's go into Gold and all 2's and 3's go into the Silver and the rest go into Bronze or Red.

Commence Flameage...lol }

Saw this on the 12U page and thought someone might want to take care of this before the tourny....................

[dittoz]

Having no clue about the 12u division, maybe I'm off here but exactly how is the TD or the scheduler or whomever is doing this supposed to know what teams are talented and what teams are not? Is S/he supposed to go out and research all 150+ teams? Should s/he have come to HB or some other site and ask people here...?

Aside from the 12u division, and being that this is the first tournament of the year at the 16/18/G level, the only *real* knowledge available even at that level is based on what division a team is actually registered. Being as this is not the stadium at Huntington where the same top-level teams always play, I cannot imagine how this tourney would know the difference from a Hype team to a Starz team to a Comet team...

Just sayin, y'know...?

[Mr. Monday!]

{ Anyone else noticing the 12u Lincoln Memorial Day Monday brackets seem a little off? Seems there are some 2 seeds that will make it into the gold bracket while there are other 2 seeds that will not make it.

Examples:

The most glaring example is Pool 10 which contains the Breeze 98 and TC Smash yet only the #1 seed gets to go to the Gold bracket.(Not being able to have 2 of the top 5 Norcal teams play in the same Monday Gold bracket is kind of silly. I would imagine either one would easily walk away with the Silver bracket.)

Pool 2 has the EC Hotshots and Valley Stompers but only 1 gets to go to the Gold bracket

Meanwhile Pools 1, 3, 5 and 7 all get #1 and #2 seeds in the gold bracket where the likely #2 seed will probably have an early exit(no disrespect to those teams).

The system does seem to work for Pool 6 which has the Red Grapes(shot out to Tenshun...haha) and Hype 98. Both those teams should be worthy enough to make it into to the Gold bracket.

Not saying whoever made the brackets didn't put in alot of work and maybe there are some teams that are flying under the radar that are ready to step up but a better bracket/pool system seems to be needed. Maybe something like all the #1 and #2 seeds go into the Gold or just all #1's go into Gold and all 2's and 3's go into the Silver and the rest go into Bronze or Red.

Commence Flameage...lol }

Saw this on the 12U page and thought someone might want to take care of this before the tourny....................

Just took a look at the pools and brackets......It seems as if they created some brackets that they may be calling stronger than others. Which doesn't make sense to do something like that for such a big tourney. I'm confused a little. Maybe Gary can give us some clarification???????

[lookingIN]

[[quote{ Anyone else noticing the 12u Lincoln Memorial Day Monday brackets seem a little off? Seems there are some 2 seeds that will make it into the gold bracket while there are other 2 seeds that will not make it.][/quote]

I think that is the point trying to be made...