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MAPS CUP 2012 BOYS U12-U17 - JUNE 16-17, 2012
GIRLS U12-U17 - JUNE 23-24, 2012 Dear Coach / Manager: Welcome! We expect you are reading this because your team
has been accepted to MAPS CUP 2012. 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 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) RULES & REGULATIONS
Major
items: No smoking, no alcohol, no pets, no abusive behavior. Obey traffic
directives. Please pick up your trash. Simple. D) 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 (non-New Remember:
All players on your team must have player passes from the SAME governing
body, whether USYS or US Club or AYSO, etc. E) SCHEDULE OF GAMES The
schedule of games for the MAPS Cup will be posted on the Tournament website, as separate schedules
covering individual Age BRACKETS that you will be able to print out. All
schedules are accessible from the Homepage located at http://www.socceragency.net/maps/2012/1206_mapscup/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. F) FIELDS
& TRAVEL DIRECTIONS The location of the fields is very simple: From the
intersection of US Highways 206 and 30, take Highway 30 West (North White
Horse Pike) for three miles, then take Fleming Pike North for one mile.
H) REFRESH
YOUR WEB BROWSER / CONTACT MOBILE PHONE# / MESSAGING 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. RESPECT THE FACT THAT WE ARE PRIVILEGED TO BE USING GREAT LIMITED ACCESS FACILITIES, BUT THEY DO HAVE PARKING REGULATIONS! Do not just park anywhere on the grass, and follow all directives! ·
No
pets, on a leash or otherwise. ·
No
smoking anywhere near the showcase. ·
Please
pick up your 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 no reason to feel constrained if everyone uses
common sense. ********** Thanks
for your cooperation. We are looking forward to an exciting tournament. Bohdan E. Porytko 973-998-9731 Tournaments and Showcases: www.socceragency.net/maps |
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