Welcome to all the teams that will be participating in the Mayflower Fest.

SCHEDULE OF GAMES

The schedule of games has been posted on the MAPS website. The schedule is posted in both Field/Timeslot Grid Form showing all games on all fields, and posted as a separate Age Bracket schedule covering just your own age competition that you will be able to print out. Note that the Adobe PDF webpages are multiple pages that require you to scroll down until you get to the page you want. The program does allow you to print only the single page you want, once you get to it.

All schedules are accessible from the Mayflower Fest Homepage located at

http://www.socceragency.net/maps/2007/0711_mayflower/mayflower.htm

Please check and confirm the dates, times and fields of your games as soon as they become available. We will email notices to team contacts to re-check the schedule if there are any subsequent changes. After Monday November 26, any changes in the Schedule will be marked in blue on the Saturday and Sunday Field/Timeslot Grids on the website. Team Contacts (as provided on your application) are responsible for checking their emails on a regular basis, especially the last week before the event, to ensure that no last minute communications are ignored.

Occasionally a typo occurs when transferring information from the Field/Timeslot Grid Schedule to the individual Age Bracket schedules. Please bring these to our attention. Almost always, the information on the Field/Timeslot Schedule is the correct info.

Whenever checking your online information, click REFRESH on your WEB BROWSER. This ensures you are seeing the actual information available online, and not a previously-memorized page being stored in your computer cache. (Failure to do so is the most common reason teams discover they have incorrect information.)

LODGING

If you still need lodging, contact our Travel Coordinator Linda Hogancamp at MSSLlodging@gmail.com.

REGISTRATION

We will have Registration at the fields at the Headquarters pavilion. You must arrive to register 45 minutes before your first game.

All teams must have:

A copy of the team roster they can leave with Registration officials. Pencil in any Guest players being used.

Player Passes for all participating players, rostered and guest.

Authorizations for Medical Treatment, more commonly referred to as Medical Releases, for all participating players. The ones executed when the player was first registered with the team for the season are usually adequate. Remember, these documents are critical to ensure that a player can be admitted to an ambulance, clinic or hospital for treatment, especially in the absence of a parent or legal guardian in attendance. These documents have to show original signatures. (And preferably be notarized, as we have heard of clinics that questioned how they could confirm the signature was actually a parent’s or legal guardian’s.)

Permissions To Travel for those out-of-state teams (non-New Jersey) using USYS passes from state associations that require a Permission To Travel.

Remember: All players on your team must have player passes from the SAME governing body, whether USYS or US Club or AYSO, etc.

RULES OF PLAY & REGULATIONS

Rules of Play can be accessed from the Tournament Homepage or directly at:

http://www.socceragency.net/maps/INFO_tournament_rules.pdf

All team coaches, managers, players and supporters are required to abide by these Rules & Regulations, covering both competition and conduct on premises. Coaches and Managers are responsible for distributing this information to their teams.

In particular, note the summary page at the end that covers procedures on scoring, playoffs, tiebreakers, foul weather, etc.

AWARDS

There will be awards in all age groups First and Second Place. Make sure to come to HQ after your last game if you have earned your awards!

TRAVEL DIRECTIONS

Mayflower Fest 2007 will be held at Mercer County Park.

Travel directions to all fields can be accessed from the Tournament homepage. There should also be a field layout map posted as the tournament gets close. http://www.socceragency.net/maps/2007/0711_mayflower/mayflower.htm

If you use an online map service (try the MAPS function on Google.com), the address for Mercer County Park, use “1638 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, NJ 08550”

REFRESH YOUR WEB BROWSER / CONTACT MOBILE PHONE# / MESSAGING

Please check your team account on www.SoccerScheduler.com and make sure there is a valid mobile phone number listed for the TEAM CONTACT PERSON INFORMATION. This will be the first number called if there is a scheduling or weather problem at the fields.

Also, make sure you avoided using corporate or government email addresses for your team contacts entered in www.SoccerScheduler.com. These networked computer systems tend to have strong firewalls and spam filters that invariably prevent group messaging functions such as we rely upon from operating. Please provide email addresses from residential accounts (AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Comcast, Verizon, Optonline, etc.)

Finally, do NOT list the same person for coach, manager and team contact. If there is a problem in communicating with that individual, it is useful to have alternatives. That is the whole point for the system allowing multiple contact listings.

ON-SITE CONCERNS

Some simple rules for each facility we use:

· Park only in designated spots

· No pets, on a leash or otherwise.

· No smoking anywhere near the showcase.

· Cooperate with tournament officials and field marshals. Anyone caught abusing the above items will be evicted from the premises, and it may lead to early termination of an offending team’s participation.

Sorry if it sounds restrictive, but there is no reason to feel constrained if everyone uses common sense.

Looking forward to a great soccer festival,

Steve Shilling

Director

Bohdan E. Porytko
Director
973-998-9731

MSSLsoccer@aol.com

www.socceragency.net/maps