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2010 EXPLORER CUP PHILADELPHIA SOCCER CLUB, PHILADELPHIA PA
OCTOBER 9 & 10, 2010 Dear Coach / Manager: Welcome!
We expect you are reading this because your team has applied to the
2010 Explorer
Cup on Saturday October 9th and
Sunday October 10th. 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.
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 (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.
The
schedule of games for
the 2010 EXPLORER CUP will be posted on the Tournament website, as separate schedules
covering individual Age BRACKETS that you will be able to print out. All
VOYAGE schedules are accessible from the Homepage located at
http://www.socceragency.net/maps/2010/1010_explorer/explorer.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.
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.
J)
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. Do not park just park anywhere. ·
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 |