Reminders on Entering Tournaments

• There may be confusion among some teams as to what effect entering tournaments online has on holding their place in those tournaments.  Many times a team will register for a tournament online weeks, or months, in advance believing that ensures them a spot.  Simply put, no entry is complete without the director receiving the entry fee.  Even though we use an online tournament entry process, the receipt of the entry fee is still what guarantees a team’s spot in an event.  The date upon which a team completes the online entry has no bearing on the team’s acceptance into a tournament.  In fact, if anything, the longer the time passes between the online entry and the tournament deadline, the less valid that entry becomes.

• If a team sends in one check for multiple tournaments, please include a copy of the confirmation email for each tournament to which the check applies, and make sure that the director to which you’re sending the check is the one that’s running all of those events.  In other words, don’t mail an entry to USSSA East when the tournament for which you’re paying is being run by another director.

• Do not make the check payable to the name of the tournament.  Instead, to get the payment information (i.e., who to make the check payable to and where to mail it) refer to the event notes.