Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Updates

Seeding Brackets – All of the seeding brackets are posted, only the B10, G10, B12, G12, B18D-1 and G18D-1 are close to final we hope to make them final with 24 hours (we will make an official announcement when they are final). The other divisions are still wide open and there are a lot of changes being made. Save a tree, don’t print them yet. Click Here To See Brackets

Note to Coaches – please feel free to make requests for changes, we do what we can. Keep in mind we do random brackets, so we don’t check to see of you have your boys varsity and girls varsity playing at the same time on Monday – if we do will change it if you let us know. We cannot do the same for Tuesday’s games as there are only so many time slots and programs with a four or more time slots will overlap.

Notes to parents – we know many of you have numerous children playing in the tournament. Our goal is to make sure the varsity teams do not overlap with your other teams before Friday. If you have a lot of kids in the 10-16 age groups, you will have a conflict that is just the fact. One positive note is when I was doing it with four boys in those ages we were driving around San Antonio for Nationals and that was often forty-five minutes of traffic and driving between games, Springfield is a much friendlier town to get around.

Players Names Missing – We have had a couple of dozen players who have registered not appear on the post on the website, we are sorry about that and not really sure what happened. If you were on the first posting but not the second or if you have a receipt and are not on the list – don’t panic you are all set.
What to bring to Nationals – we recommend that you bring your confirmation for your t-shirts or player registration fee if you have them.

Water bottles
– We received a phone call today from the company we ordered the water bottles from. They informed us that our guaranteed delivery date (tomorrow) would not be met and that we would not have the water bottles until after Nationals. Needless to say we canceled the order and we will not have water bottles. If you purchased a water bottle we will give you a refund. If you were to receive a free water bottle please accept our sincere apology as this was beyond our control. If you are really upset about this I would like to make a suggestion:
Do – please send me a letter
Do NOT – give our volunteer staff a piece of your mind because:
1. They are not responsible for this error
2. They cannot help you (none of them make water bottles)
3. It is a long week and you might need that piece of mind later in the week

Team USA 16U Players need to be at the Team USA Meeting at 4:45 on Monday.

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