Entry Fee: $550

Deadline: Entry fee payment must be received by: Jan. 2, 2020

Note: Senior Softball-USA charges a 4% convenience fee for all payments other than cash or check.

Important reminder: The US Postal Service is experiencing delays in their deliveries, so please let us know if you intend to play in this tournament. Team lists for tournament are published on the tournament pages at the entry deadline. If your team is not listed, please call immediately. Teams are not officially entered until payment is received.

Refund policy: Entry Fees are non-refundable after the deadline. Full refunds are given to teams withdrawing BEFORE the deadline. NO refunds are given after the deadline.

Tournament Format

Note: SSWC reserves the right to combine divisions of three or fewer teams within one age level and/or skill level.

Five games minimum initially scheduled (not "guaranteed"), with Round Robin into Double Elimination or Three-Game-Guarantee brackets or other acceptable tourney formats.

Special Events

Hitting Clinic
Wednesday, February 5th from 10:00AM - 2:00PM at Auburndale Softball Complex
This clinic will give players a chance to warm up and to sharpen their skills before the tournament with some of the best hitters in the sport.

TOC All-Star Game
Wednesday, February 5th 6:00PM at Auburndale Softball Complex
Each TOC-competing team will select one player to compete in the game. Two TOC managers will be selected for the All-Star teams. Winning team will play an exhibition game against the Louisville Slugger Warriors on Saturday evening.

Skills Contests
Thursday, February 6th from 09:00AM - 11:00AM at Auburndale Softball Complex
Contests in four divisions (40/50, 60, 70/80, Women) including: Precision Hitting (winners receive bats), Home Run (winners receive bats), Speed (winners receive shoes), Pitching (winners receive gloves).

Optional Team Practice
Thursday, February 6th, Noon-3:00PM  
Team Managers choose a complex in order of preference.  SSUSA will schedule the practices and notify managers of their practice time and location.

CLICK HERE for practice schedules

TOC Banquet
Thursday, February 6th, 7:00PM
RP Funding Center 701 W Lime St. Lakeland, FL 33815
There will be a free banquet for participating TOC players, their friends and family during which each team will be recognized.

Louisville Slugger Warriors vs. TOC All-Stars Game
Saturday, February 8th 7:00PM at Auburndale Softball Complex
Winning team from Wednesday's TOC All-Star Game will play an exhibition game against the Louisville Slugger Warriors.

RECAP

SCORES

DRAFT Game Schedules & Brackets (PDF's)

• Men's: 50's | 55's | 60's | 65's & 70's | 75's thru 85's

• 40-Masters & 50+ Sr. Women: Men | Women

• Complete: All Ages & Divisions [Large file: 31 pages]

Tournament Administration (PDF's)

• Master Games & Field Grid: Tournament of Champions 2020

• Participating Teams List: Tournament of Champions 2020

TOC Practice Schedule

TOC All-Star Rosters

14th ANNUAL TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS:
Polk County Is ‘The County of Choice’

POLK COUNTY, FL. • The Crown Jewel of Senior Softball enters its 14th year here in 2020, pitting the best of the best on the softball diamonds.

There simply is no other tournament in the sport that comes close to the SSUSA Original Tournament of Champions: Free rings for winners, special edition bats for MVPs, gift bags for every manager, a gala sit-down banquet for 1,500 players and their families – and that does not even include the hitting clinics, skills contests and the All-Star Game!

This year’s tournament will be held Feb. 5 through Feb. 9 and only winners of qualifying tournament are invited. In short, it’s the tournament for champions, only. Second-place teams stay home. This is the original Tournament of Champions and it’s only for those teams that have been previously crowned king of the hill at a Senior Softball USA sanctioned tournament during the 2019 season.

“The TOC here offers the most elite event in the sport to celebrate winners of the top tournaments in the country,” said Terry Hennessy, chief executive officer of SSUSA. “No one offers a tournament that even comes close.”

“It’s a battle of tournament champions taking on tournament champions to determine which team is truly the top team of the year,” he said. “There’s really nothing like it and that’s why teams go all out to come back each year.”

The Tournament of Champions handsomely rewards its winners who received free championship rings and each player earns a TOC certificate. In addition, the most valuable players in each division win a bat.

Playing Facilities

Auburndale Sports Complex
99 Florida Citrus Blvd.
Jan Phyl Village, FL 33880

Diamondplex Softball Complex
85 PSC Access Road
Winter Haven, FL 33881

Loyce Harpe Sports Complex
500 W. Carter Rd.
Mulberry, FL 33860

Walker Road Softball Complex
1035 Walker Road
Lakeland, FL 33810

HEADQUARTER HOTEL

Holiday Inn Winter Haven
200 Cypress Gardens Boulevard
Winter Haven, FL 33880
(863) 292-2100

HOST HOTELS

Hampton Inn of Winter Haven
202 Cypress Gardens Boulevard
Winter Haven, FL 33880
(863) 299-9251
Rate: $119/night

Days Inn & Suites Lakeland
4502 North Socrum Loop Road
Lakeland, FL 33809
(863) 683-5095

Courtyard Winter Haven
6225 Cypress Gardens Blvd SE
Winter Haven, FL 33884

Booking information: contact Desiree Howell, Director of Sales, directly at 863-656-5046 or Desiree.Howell@Marriott.com.  

Dates of Play