Tournament Notes
Captains Meeting : 8:30 am @ the Scorer's Table located (TBD). 1 Captain from each team is responsible for signing in at the Captains Meeting at this time.
CRUCIAL > Prior to Tournament Day, please PRINT and REVIEW the rules. All rules used during the regular season are in effect on Tournament Day except where otherwise noted. Every team is required to have a copy of the rules with them on game day.
The Final Four finish in the money: $200 for the Champions, $100 for the Runner-up and $50 each for 3rd & 4th Place.
IMPORTANT : All teams are responsible for making sure all their trash ends up in a garbage can.
Tournament Play
An even 4 Brackets with 4 teams in each. The brackets are seeded from the Regular Season Final Standings and can be found here. Each team will play every other team in their bracket once, which represents your (3) guaranteed games.
Pre-Final 4 Tournament games will be (6) innings. No extra-innings, ties are allowed. Every effort should be made to start your games promptly and to complete them within the hour alloted.
How the Horn Works
The horn will blow at 5 minutes to the hour (i.e. 8:55, 9:55, etc.)
The horn will be handled a little differently on Tournament Day and this is IMPORTANT, so make sure that your in understanding of how this reads...
(a) If the horn blows and it is currently the top half of the inning, that inning will be the last inning played.
(b) If the horn blows and it is currently the bottom half of the inning, (1) more inning will be allowed assuming that it is not already the 6th inning (last inning of the game).
If the horn blows and the game is already in the 6th inning, that will be the last inning of the game regardless of what half of the inning it is. If the game is tied at the end of the 6th inning, that game will be recorded as a tie.
Official Scorekeeping
As mentioned above, the Master Scoreboard for the Tournament will be located (TBD). The final score of each game must be reported here by a (Captain) representative from each team involved at the conclusion of every game. If only one Captain reports and initials, that will be the score that's official, No Exceptions.
IMPORTANT : I (Nic) must be the one that writes the score down on the Scoreboard... If I am busy still playing a game or otherwise involved, you'll need to wait... it won't take that long... This is to ensure the integrity of the Scoreboard.
Guarantees
Each team will play (3) games and have (3) byes... plenty of time for bbq'ing and beer. Captains are responsible for knowing their teams schedule and having their teams ready to go at game time.
The top (4) seeds from the regular season are guaranteed a 9am bye. The top (8) seeds from the regular season are guaranteed (2) home-games and (1) away-game within Tournament play.
Tie-Breakers
At the conclusion of Tournament play (3pm)... each Bracket will send its best team to the Final Four. Bracket winners will be determined first by Record, then by Least Runs Allowed, then by Most Runs Scored, then by Head-to-Head within the Bracket, and finally, by Seed.