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| July 20 biggflyy1953 Men's 60 43 posts | We are a 65AAA team (Bomb Squad)out of SW Michigan playing in the ISA World Series Tournament next Week (26-28 July). Travel time approximately 5-6 hours. We have found out we are in a 2 team division, which will require 3 days of play. Included is 3 seeding, play-in games against the only 3 65 Major teams in the tourney. These 3 games have no other purpose than playing essentially 3 exhibition games since they have no impact on the 65AAA bracket play since the 2 teams are playing a best 2 out of 3. Or, place the 65's in one bracket with the top Major and AAA team qualifying for the 2019 TOC. We have 2 games on Friday, 2 games on Saturday and 1-2 games on Sunday. 3 days to play 5-6 games. 2 days would have been sufficient to complete this TOC eligible tourney! $550.00 entry to play. $100.00 in gas (minimum), $300-400 for hotels (2 per room) and approximately $100 for 3 days of meals for a 2 team tourney. OOUCH! We are a team that pays to play. In addition, the Windy city SSUSA tourney in the Chicago area (230 miles from Columbus, IN)is the same weekend! Why is ISA and SSUSA competing against each other on the same weekend thus making teams decide on which one to play. The Windy City tourney has 3 65 AAA teams 1 more than the ISA World Series. Would have been nice to have 5 potential teams in either tourney. Finally, it would seem appropriate to give teams an option of playing or receiving their entry fee reimbursed when they find out there are only 2 teams in their bracket for a 3 day tourney. Suggestion: have the 60's, 65's and 70's play on Thursday and Friday since their seems to be a field logistics for the ISA tourney. Just a thought!! |
| July 20 biggflyy1953 Men's 60 43 posts | Should have said "field logistics problem"! |
| July 20 Nancy Allen Men's 55 1438 posts | biggflyy1953, this is not an official answer, but you have to remember that the ISA World Series is being run by Jerry Jackson, and the Elgin tournament is being run by the SSUSA office. So your concerns will probably not be answered on this board. Someone might respond from the SSUSA side about Elgin, but I do not think that Jerry ever gets on this message board and would never answer anything here. This is definitely a pick up the phone subject. |
