I just wanted to say thanks for all the feed back, the good and the bad as it will help myself and others in future tournaments. After losing the ability to use three diamonds and having to push the games back to 10am on Sunday, it truly was challenging to schedule all the games in a double elimination tournament with limited day light and fields. Then when we were faced with more time challenges, such as game delays due to injuries and other types of delays as it pushes things back even more, but these are just unforeseen circumstances which we all had to deal with and could happen at any tournament.
I want to say I am truly sorry for not being able to get times out to the coaches any early than I did on Saturday night, as we had to determine what fields we could possible get up and running for the Sundays games in addition to the ones we had operational as that would determine who would play where and times. I also want to thank all the coaches on my coaching staff and parents who worked on fields at 4am Saturday morning and then again on Sunday. If it wasn't for your determination to let these teams get some games in we would not have not played a game at all this weekend. I also want to say to everyone who may have picked up a rake and helped out or lined a field, thank you!
This tournament was the Crush Associations 4th tournament the other three went really well and this one had its challenges, but overall I felt we work hard so at least 8 teams recieved there berth to Nationals instead of throwing our hands up in the air and cancelling the whole thing.
Thanks again teams for attending our tournament and thanks Dan for all your help in determining how to handle the challenges we faced this weekend.
Congratulation to our 2010 berth winners!
