Entry Fee: $510

Deadline: Entry fee payment must be received by: Jan. 2, 2019

Note: There is a 4% surcharge if paying by credit card (VISA, MasterCard or Discover only).

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.

Minimum five games initially scheduled (subject to weather).  Round Robin seeding games into Double Elimination or Three-game-guarantee brackets or other acceptable tournament formats.

Special Events

Hitting Clinic
Wednesday, February 6th 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.
Players must email Ross@seniorsoftball.com to register before January 4th, 2019.

TOC All-Star Game
Wednesday, February 6th 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.

CLICK HERE to view rosters for the game

Skills Contests
Thursday, February 7th 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).
Players must email Ross@seniorsoftball.com to register before January 4th, 2019.

To view participants for each contest, please click on the below links

Precision Hitting

Home Run

Speed

Pitching

Optional Team Practice
Thursday, February 7th, Noon-3:00PM  
Auburndale and Diamond Plex Sports Complexes will be available:  Team Managers choose a complex in order of preference.  SSUSA will schedule the practices and notify managers of their practice time and location by January 14.

CLICK HERE to view practice schedule

TOC Banquet
Thursday, February 7th, 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 9th 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.

Game Scores & Bracket Results (PDF's)

• Men's: 50's | 55's | 60's | 65's | 70's thru 85's
• 40-Masters: Men & Women and 50+ Women

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

Tournament Administration (PDF's)

• Master Games & Field Grid: 2019 T.O.C.
• Participating Teams List: 2019 T.O.C.

TOURNAMENT SPONSORS

 

 

 

TEAMS CURRENTLY QUALIFIED FOR 2019 TOC

 

13th ANNUAL TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS:
Polk County Is ‘The County of Choice’

POLK COUNTY, FL. • The Crown Jewel of Senior Softball enters its 13th year here in 2019, 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. 6 through Feb. 10 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 2018 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

HEADQUARTER HOTEL

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

RATES: (subject to state and local taxes - 12%)
$129.00/night (includes hearty hot breakfast buffet)

RESERVE BY JANUARY 14

 

HOST HOTELS

Hampton Inn of Winter Haven
202 Cypress Gardens Boulvard
Winter Haven, FL 33880
(863) 299-9251

 

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

Rates:
$139.00 per night/room

Dates of Play

FIELD
Auburndale Sports Complex
Diamondplex Softball Complex
Loyce Harpe Sports Complex
Southwest Softball Complex
Walker Road Softball Complex

HOTEL
Days Inn
Hampton Inn Winter Haven
Holiday Inn Winter Haven (HQ)