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MEMORIAL
DAY 2012 MSSL EXPLOSION JOINT
BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST NJ - BOYS & GIRLS - U9 to U19 MAY 26-27, 2012 Dear Coach / Manager:
Welcome!
We expect you are reading this because your team has applied to the MEMORIAL DAY 2012
MSSL EXPLOSION on Saturday May 26th &
Sunday May 27th. Please review the
following information carefully, ALL OF IT IS IMPORTANT! Yes, its lengthy,
but 90% of what you will need to know is all here in one place! A) APPLICATION Please note that your application is not complete until
payment has been received. We will accept teams after their online
application has been entered and their payment received. Teams applying late or not accepted will be placed on a
waiting list. If not ultimately accepted, any refunds will be issued after
the event concludes. B) LODGING
A
requirement for acceptance for out-of-area teams is that your team utilizes
sanctioned tournament lodging. Note that we reserve blocks of rooms at these
facilities well in advance to ensure that our participating teams’ needs are
adequately met. If we do not utilize these reserved rooms, the hotels may not
make these rooms available at future events, especially at times of the year
when lodging demands in the area are greatest. Therefore, your cooperation
here is expected.
If
your room situation has still not been squared away, please contact Lodging
Coordinator Alan at alan@titanlodging.com as soon as
possible. Additional Lodging Information is found at http://www.socceragency.net/maps/Lodging/INFO_Lodging.htm.
C) JOINT BASE
MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST SECURITY & ON-SITE CONCERNS
This applies to all teams
scheduled to play at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. Please
advise all who will be entering the base that each vehicle must have: If you
have a rental or leased vehicle, make sure you have your Driver’s License,
and the documentation for the rental or lease. All documents need to be
current, and should clearly inform gate personnel that the vehicle is
properly insured. (Since the documents vary from state to state, we will NOT
be further elucidating that last stipulation.) The person behind the wheel
entering the gate must be a named driver, if one or more are listed on the
documents. No motorcycles
or bicycles can be used on the Base by visitors. The increased mobility
offered by the use of these vehicles is considered a security risk to Base
operations. We request that visitors be respectful of these concerns. Make sure to allow yourself at least 15
minutes additional to get through the gate, in addition to the team’s normal pre-game / warm-up time. We want
to make sure everyone has adequate time to prepare for their games. D) RULES & REGULATIONS
Major
items: No smoking, no alcohol, no pets, no abusive behavior. Obey traffic
directives. Please pick up your trash. Simple.
E)
TEAM REGISTRATION We will have
Registration at the fields where your first game will be played. You must
arrive to register at least a full hour 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 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. F)
SCHEDULE OF GAMES The
schedule of games for the
MEMORIAL DAY 2012 MSSL EXPLOSION will be posted on the Tournament
website, as separate schedules covering individual Age BRACKETS that you will
be able to print out. All EXPLOSION schedules are accessible from the Homepage located at http://www.socceragency.net/maps/2012/1205_explosion/homepage.htm Please check and
re-confirm the dates, times and fields of your games as soon as possible
after they are posted. Within two weeks of the Tournament, any teams affected
by changes in schedule will be notified by email. 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.
G)
AWARDS Medals will be
presented to each Bracket Champion and Finalist player. Please come to the
field HQ after your last game for a presentation if your team qualifies! H)
FIELDS & TRAVEL DIRECTIONS Directions to all venues
is posted on the Tournament Homepage on the web. You can also find field
layout maps on the Homepage. IMPORTANT NOTE FOR TEAMS PLAYING AT JOINT BASE / FORT DIX: Do
NOT rely on GPS SYSTEMS indiscriminately to get to Fort Dix, you will almost
always be directed to the wrong gate. Carefully READ the TRAVEL DIRECTIONS
posted at http://www.socceragency.net/maps/Venues/directions_JBMDL.htm . To obtain directions to the FORT DIX fields online, go to www.google.com, and click on MAPS. For an
address for the Special Events Gate
enter: “New Jersey Avenue and North Pointville Road, Fort Dix NJ” Also, READ the boxed section that comprises the second half of
the Travel Directions, for important information about your BASE visit. I) WEATHER-RELATED ALERTS In the
event of lightning, we will cease play immediately. We may also suspend play
in the event of a substantial downpour. Games in the second half will likely
be declared as completed. Please have your team get to shelter, and have a
system for contacting each team member. Twenty minutes after a stoppage, send
ONE team representative to HQ, where we will inform all affected teams of the
current status of play, and when we expect to resume. The first
place for off-site information is the Tournament Schedule Homepage, where weather updates will appear as
warranted. This is the GotSoccer page you are
directed to when you click on the SCHEDULES BY AGE BRACKETS button on the
Showcase Homepage. (This is the fastest webpage for us to update quickly.) When
circumstances warrant, we will also leave updates on a Weather Hotline at 732-432-7200. Please
do not try to leave messages on this number, it will not be monitored during
the weekend. J)
REFRESH YOUR WEB BROWSER / CONTACT MOBILE PHONE# / MESSAGING If you are
having difficulties seeing information clearly on the MAPS/MSSL Tournament
website, note that the site seems to work best on Internet Explorer. Consider
changing your Web Browser when accessing the site. 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.) Please check
your team account on www.GotSport.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.GotSport.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, Gmail, 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. ********************* Some simple
rules for each facility we use: ·
Park
only in designated spots. You may be ticketed! ·
No pets,
on a leash or otherwise. ·
No
smoking anywhere near the showcase fields or staging areas (basically, once
you enter the grounds inside the parking lots). ·
Teams must pick up their trash. The pitch
is sacred ground, and shouldn’t be buried in discarded water bottles and
wrapping tape. ·
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 to sound
restrictive, but there is really no reason to feel constrained if everyone
uses common sense.
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Thanks for your cooperation.
We are looking forward to an exciting tournament. Bohdan E. Porytko 973-998-9731
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