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| Feb. 22, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Age up: YES ... You are currently eligible to play with a 70+ team this season so long as you are otherwise eligible as to residency and prior rating experience history AND that team has one of its maximum three (3) available under-age roster exemptions available ... Good luck! |
| Feb. 21, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Top Gun Winter Classic • "DRAFT" Game Schedules/Brackets DRAFT Game Schedules and Brackets for the SSUSA's Top Gun Winter Classic 2026 in West Covina, CA, have been posted and are available from the links below and on the event's Tournament page ... As always, these DRAFT schedules are TENTATIVE, are subject to change and become final ONLY when released as "OFFICIAL" when play commences ... Good luck everyone ... DRAFT Game Schedules & Brackets (PDF's)• Men's: 40's & 50's | 55's & 60's | 65's thru 80's • Complete: All Ages & Divisions [Larger file: 19 pages] Tournament Administration (PDF's)• Master Grid & Teams List: Winter Classic 2026 |
| Feb. 20, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: Teams looking for players Discussion: 55 year old players Gary ... Please try to limit, or preferably eliminate, redundant postings ... Thanks! |
| Feb. 19, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: West Covina domer ... What's your team's name? (you post here anonymously, so I can't "look you guys up" to get started on what we might be able to do to help) ... Tiffany from our office and timmy13 worked out a good solution for his team by setting their games for 5:00 and 6:30 PM, so they're happy campers and good to go! ... We ARE going to play Friday for the 60-Men and 55-AAA divisions ... There's a total of 129 games required for this event, with just 132 total game slots available at "normal" times of day ... The 19 games combined in the 60's and 55-AAA for Friday afternoon and evening could maybe be rolled over to the weekend, but only by forcing Saturday night games at 8:00 (1), 9:30 (6) and 11:00 PM (6), plus pushing Sunday's schedule to 5:00 PM "If" games ... This would presume, of course, that the park would permit us to play past midnight on Saturday ... Please let me know so I can get a jump on getting you guys into workable late(r) game slots rather than just taking what the randomization of game times software yields ... Thanks! |
| Feb. 18, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: West Covina tribe24 ... This year's version of the Top Gun Winter Classic was never contemplated for play on Tuesday thru Friday for any age group ... It was always three days, Friday through Sunday, for everyone ... And there are MORE teams this year than either of the last TWO years ... Someone may be giving you faulty data points ... |
| Feb. 18, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: West Covina We're using all six fields for the three days available ... Also scheduling 129 games into the total of 132 maximum game slots (there is ONE open time on ONE field on each day) ... It's a pretty typical teams count for the event this year ... Past 4 year's average is 46 teams (2023=53 / 2024=40 / 2025=44 / 2026=48) Age group balance this time is a reasonable spread, too ... 10 • 40's & 50's 11 • 55's 9 • 60's 10 • 65's & 70's 8 • 75's & 80's |
| Feb. 18, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: West Covina Your comment seems a bit unclear ... Here's the current tournament plan: • There was NO CHANGE for the 40's • Still Saturday only • There was NO CHANGE for the 50's • Still Sat./Sun. • There was NO CHANGE for the 65+ and more senior • Still Fri./Sun. • There was NO CHANGE for 55-Major+ or 55-Major • Still Sat./Sun. _______ Nominal changes were made to: • The 55-AAA and 60+ Men will begin later on Friday and end Sunday • The 60/65-Platinum and 60-AA brackets will end on Saturday • The 55-AAA and 60-AAA brackets will end on Sunday (no change) |
| Feb. 18, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Yuba City Tournament Yuba City parks personnel and the SSUSA Home Office were in touch yesterday (Tuesday) ... A lot will be dependent on rain impacts for the balance of the week ... Currently the event is a "GO", but that could change quickly ... If Yuba City determines the fields are or will be unplayable, we will, of course, advise everyone of that ASAP ... Thanks! ... |
| Feb. 16, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: Major playing wants to go up an age to play AAA Well, three things haven't changed since October: [1] Your question ... [2] Our answer ... [3] The rule ... If we owe you an apology for addressing that redundancy, please accept this as it ... You've asked this question three times now, including twice today, one of which we deleted already ... Those who are giving you a different answer are not doing you any favors ... Call us and we'll walk you through it in hopes of removing any remaining doubts you may have ... That's why we're here ... |
| Feb. 16, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: Major playing wants to go up an age to play AAA Smiles123 ... Here's the answer we gave you when you asked this identical question on October 28th • No, you're probably not ... 50-Major has a Rating Index of "8" and the 55-AAA R/I = "6" ... The maximum allowable spread is one (1) R/I point ... Please call the Sacramento Office @ (916) 326.5303 during normal business hours in the Pacific time zone and ask for an eligibility specialist ... Be prepared to discuss your specific situation (your name and the teams involved) to get an official determination ... Good luck! |
| Feb. 10, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: 2 rosters at the same time FTP is correct ... A player may NOT be on two rosters in the same age division simultaneously ... He may leave Team "A" by being released and go to Team "B" if he is otherwise eligible as to residency and rating level experience ... After that release, he may not return to Team "A" for the remainder of the current season ... EXCEPTION: He may play on two teams if he has a valid "snowbird" card for the current season, but must declare exclusively for one team or the other in any event where both teams enter (Eastern/Western Nationals or World Championships) ... |
| Feb. 9, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: Roster Eligibility 243570 ... You are correct ... A player may NOT be on two rosters in the same age division simultaneously ... He may leave Team "A" by being released and go to Team "B" if he is otherwise eligible as to residency and rating level experience ... After that release, he may not return to Team "A" for the remainder of the current season ... You guys are talking "apples and oranges" ... Your original post was about horizontal rostering in the same age group, and he is typing about vertical rostering between two age groups ... |
| Feb. 5, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Picture taking in Winter Haven She's the Official SSUSA Photographer: Clover Schultz email: imagesbyclover@gmail.com & cell: (507) 273.2633 |
| Feb. 1, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: rerating Howard ... It looks like you have a start on a formal ratings appeal, but this isn't the proper venue ... We intentionally disregard all message board commentary in the context of decision making, and we do not consider or debate a specific team's rating publicly ... Check the FORMS page to get the framework and format on how best to proceed, and good luck! ... |
| Jan. 27, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: OFFICIAL 2026-27 SSUSA RULEBOOK • Web Version The first press run of the 108-page Rulebook was delivered to the Home Office on Friday, January 23rd ... Copies are currently being mailed to managers who registered their team(s) for the 2026 Season ... Please contact the office if you would like to purchase your own individual copy ... |
| Jan. 21, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Requesting an Intentional 3rd out JohnO28 ... There's nothing in the SSUSA Rulebook that allows this technique ... If something is not covered in the SSUSA book, we default to the ASA/USA Rulebook ... I was not able to find anything there, either ... Hopefully this was just a theory discussion and wasn't a tournament official or umpire "making it up on the fly" ... |
| Jan. 19, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: team registration for 2026. The form (showing $55 in two places) is correct ... The non-printing instruction (showing $52) WAS incorrect, but is now consistent at $55 ... Refresh your view and you'll have the correct numbers ... Thanks! ... |
| Jan. 19, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: rerating The SSUSA Ratings Committee evaluates all teams twice annually, at the end of May and after the World Championships in October ... Any rating changes in the earlier rating review cycle are based on performance, either up or down based on the data and Director recommendation(s) ... The season-end rating review cycle is on the same basis, but also includes automatic rating increases for teams who win or finish very high in the World Championships ... SSUSA reserves the right to move teams, up or down, at any time during the year and will occasionally do so when circumstances warrant ... There is no specific formula on how many wins in T.O.C. qualifying events will trigger a move ... Play as well as you can, try to win every event you enter, and we'll handle the rest of the process ... Good luck! ... |
| Jan. 18, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: rerating It's NEITHER ... The T.O.C. is a 2025 Season event and has no bearing on your rating for the 2026 Season ... You play at the T.O.C. at the rating you were at when you won your invitation ... If you were subsequently re-rated up, that will be reinstated after the T.O.C. ends ... Don't fear winning ... It's the reason we play tournaments! ... |
| Jan. 5, 2026 SSUSA Staff | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: T.O.C. 2026 • "DRAFT" Game Schedules & Brackets There have been a couple of changes that have affected ALL schedules ... We will be starting all facilities on Friday at 8:00 AM ... Additionally, there was a rating move of a 50-AAA team back to 50-AA, which was their rating when they earned their bid to the T.O.C. ... We missed that one over the weekend, but it has been corrected ... Revised schedules now carry a revision date of 01/05/2026 ... Please refresh your downloads to view the most recent versions ... Good luck everyone! |
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