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| May 31, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Quad City Qualifier I'm going to guess that since payments aren't due until next Tuesday that they won't be posted until the payments are actually received. |
| May 11, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Who decides? Dave, this question wasnt to call out any director at all. This weekend was used solely to show the contrast in tourney to tourney information. I assume the individual directors don't have the ability to post their information about their tourney directly on this site. So shouldn't that responsibility fall on SSUSA to set the parameters of when the registration process and last available day to pay when the tourney is first posted on the website? Then when the tourney is officially closed to sign up talk with the director and find out how many and which teams have registered and paid and post accordingly on the page? The last persons responsibility it should be is the players themselves to reach out to anyone. Simply to just pass it off and say the directors aren't following up and telling players to do it really isn't going to solve the problem is it? National office needs to take some responsibility by setting deadlines and having directors adhere to it. We as players and teams have to adhere to deadlines and standards and we're the customers. You guys are the service providers we shouldn't have to track down information. |
| May 11, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Who decides? Nancy Allen, I fully understand they are being run by independent directors. But that doesn't really change my questions any. The National office could still set some parameters that all directors follow considering to fact that directors have to go through the National office to be able to host a tourney. |
| May 11, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Who decides? Have always wondered who is decides how many days prior to a tournament to stop taking teams and when the latest the money can be paid? Thought about it several times and was just curious and this weekend is a perfect example of why IU ask. Next weekend there is a tourney in Iowa and one in Michigan. The last final payment date for the IA tourney is May 4th and the original last payment day for MI was May 10 which now appears to be extended to May 20th the day before the tourney actually starts. Iowa tourney is closed for payment and the first wave of Play in games have already been posted and there is still 9 more days to collect money for MI. Shouldn't there be a registration date, payment date prior to a tourney start date? That way every team has ample time do decide sleeping accomodations. If they are still taking money there is very little chance of having a schedule more than a day or two ahead of time. A lot of time a hotel with discounted pricing will be listed but the cutoff date to get the discount is prior to the schedule being posted. A lot of people who live within a few hours will choose to drive in the morning of if they have a 9 00 or later start then they wouldn't need a hotel for the Friday night. If they have an 8 00 game them might need to get there the night before but if they can save a night of hotel costs then some people will. Just seems like there is no rhyme or reason as to how cutoff and payment dates are figured. Would be good if there was something set up where all directors followed the same pattern so players knew what they were doing. |
| April 1, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Teams looking for players Discussion: Michigan based 50+team new2michigansoftball shoot me your phone number... |
| March 31, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Teams looking for players Discussion: Michigan based 50+team new2michigansoftball.. You still looking? |
| Feb. 14, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Brickyard T Will be interesting to see how it pans out.. One of the few times I actually agree with Dave. This is going to create smaller competition by teams having to choose between the 2.. |
| Feb. 14, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Brickyard T SSUSA STAFF, I thought Dave had said on another post regarding the Brickyard that SSUSA would never schedule 2 tournaments back to back weekends only a few hours away from each other because it would create a conflict of which tournament to attend and lessen the turnouts at each event. |
| Feb. 7, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: TOC WINNERS Dave, You're not suggesting that SSUSA coined the phrase TOC for tournament of champions are you? |
| Jan. 29, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: Looking for 50 team NWI, SW Mich or Chicago area Where have you played before? |
| Jan. 24, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Brickyard T Reggie, From my understanding Brickyard is going to continue to be played at Midwest Sports amd Social club. But I did hear that ISSA has moved their Crown Point tourney to that complex you're referring to. We will not be playing Brickyard my team will more than likely be heading to Dayton to play there the weekend before Brickyard to see that complex. Has to be kept up better than Brickyard is |
| Jan. 23, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: NEW TOURNEY THIS YEAR Regardless of what we were told it does appear that the "Senior Opener" in Dayton OH played on the Kettering Fields will be happening. For those sick and tired of dealing with run down facility Midwest Sports and Social Club in Indy which is almost always rained out anyhow its gives us in the Midwest a chance to play a better complex that should be far more organized that Brickyard staff is. |
| Jan. 20, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Move Elgin's Windy City Tournament date @BH44, that was pretty good. @Parman, now that makes sense to move a tourney in the Midwest later in the year albeit it's only 2 weeks but its a much better move than moving it earlier into the year. |
| Jan. 19, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Move Elgin's Windy City Tournament date Weese, Couldn't agree more. This tourney has never been able to find a home which with the amount of Senior teams in the Midwest is kind of ridiculous. They went from one extreme to the other they used to play it in July and August on the exact same weekend as ISA Senior Worlds in Colombus IN. It's been canceled more times than played since it was moved. It's been brought up multiple times on these boards and it's always ignored over and over. To try to play a tourney at the beginning of April in Chicago makes zero sense. Not to mention while its a decent complex there are like 10 fields there but only 2 of them are 300'. The vast majority of them are 265-280' and like one that is like 290' all the way around. Tim, Most leagues around Chicago start after the first weekend in April but then again I don't know of any Senior leagues that actually allow the use of Senior bats. But more direct to your point I dont know any leagues that start April 1st. |
| Jan. 18, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Brickyard T Reggie, You're not alone in this assessment. Midwest Sports Complex was the place to play in the 90s but as you stated is has progressively gotten worse every year. It's the only complex we play at all year that beside BLD in Vegas that charges admission while also being the only complex that has multiple car break ins during the year while tournaments are going on. The overall conditions of the complex have gotten bad and as you stated the weather is always iffy at best and basically any rain on those fields they are a disaster. Would be nice to have it played at a more modern facility with Turf fields that if it were to rain they would hold up better and not having to worry the whole day that your car is being broken into while playing. We have played there the past few years when it actually didn't get rained out. As you said it's the first one most of us in the Midwest can play so most teams run the risk of the rainout just for the chance to play but talking with several Managers last year after the rainout and a few during the offseason the general concensus was teams weren't going to play there anymore. |
| Jan. 18, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Bats Discussion: wig popper Big Cat, In Dave's revies he made it clear that they some of the bats they were hitting in the second(final review) that some of the bats they were hitting were from the second batch. |
| Jan. 15, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: 9. Make safety bag plays safer I dont' understand how you guys think this isn't a safer option. If a one hopper smashes off the 1B and into foul territory and he runs out to get it and you want him to run back past the safety bag to step on the white bag? Ultimately having to cross right in front of the runner greatly increasing the chances of a collision. This rule has been around ASA/USA for several years now and it's seen it prevent collisions like it supposed to. |
| Jan. 5, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Brickyard Invitational Rob64, it's the 5th. Was there supposed to be an announcement of some sort on the 2nd? |
| Dec. 26, 2022 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Brickyard Invitational I've heard a rumor that the Brickyard Invitational won't be played this year at the Midwest Sports and Social Complex but some other location. Which is why the tourney was announced but no information given on what complex or price has been posted yet. Does anyone have any inside info on this? |
| Dec. 11, 2022 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Move Elgin's Windy City Tournament date I honestly don't think this tourney has been played since 2019 and there were 3 50s teams in it and it was held in August. Since then wasn't even scheduled for 2020, 2021 it was canceled as well as 2022. I agree there should be no tourneys scheduled in Chicago area for first week of April. It's ironic that it's scheduled for April Fools Day. |
