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CENTRAL JERSEY
INVITATIONAL 2011
DOUGHBOY
FIELDS, JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST NJ
GIRLS
- JULY 9-10, 2011
BOYS -
JULY 16-17, 2011
Greetings, Coach
/ Manager:
SCHEDULE OF GAMES
The
schedule of games for the Central
Jersey Invitational
will be posted on the MAPS website. We are using GotSoccer.com. The
schedules will be presented in a printable form for each bracket of
competition.
All
schedules are accessible from the Challenge Homepage located at
http://www.socceragency.net/maps/2011/1107_invitational/homepage.htm
Please check
and confirm the dates, times and fields of your games as soon as they are
posted. After Monday July 4 (Girls) and July 11 (Boys) teams will be
notified by direct email if they are involved in a material change. 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.
LODGING
If you require
lodging, contact Titan Lodging Travel Coordinator Alan at alan@titanlodging.com.
Teams staying overnight while participating are required to book lodging
through Titan Lodging.
Titan Lodging
has reserved rooms with various convenient hotels at attractive rates
throughout the year, to ensure that there is adequate lodging for all MAPS
& MSSL events. If we fail to utilize these rooms, they will be released
and unavailable to teams at other events, including many during periods of
the year when accommodations can be scarce. Hence, we appreciate your
cooperation with this policy.
REGISTRATION
We will have
Registration at the fields at the Headquarters pavilion or tent. A team
representative must arrive to register an hour before your first game.
All teams must
have:
A photocopy of
the stamped, official 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 be signed
within the last twelve months. (And preferably be notarized, as we have
heard of clinics that questioned how they could confirm that the signature
actually was that of a parent or legal guardian.)
Permissions To Travel for those out-of-state teams (non-New Jersey)
using USYS passes from state associations that require a Permission To
Travel. Guest Players must also be included in any Permission To Tavel requirements.
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.htm
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
Medals are
awarded for both First Place
(Champions) and Second Place
(Finalists) at the Central Jersey Invitational in all age groups.
Please make
sure to stop by the Headquarters pavilion to receive your awards and
medals.
MAPS ACADEMY CUP
In recognition
of the excellent work done to develop soccer in the region by the summer
programs, MAPS Flights have initiated the MAPS
Academy Cup. Whether
League Select Team, Summer Academy Team or dedicated year-round Club Team,
all programs with multiple teams at the Invitational are eligible to
participate.
The point
total of the top three finishes within a program
are counted toward the awarding of the Cup. In each bracket, 10 points are
awarded for a Championship result, 7 for Second
Place, 5 for Third
Place, 3 for Fourth
Place, 2 for Fifth
Place and 1 for Sixth
Place. Only First through Fourth place points
are awarded in a bracket that has less than eight teams.
Separate
Awards are presented to both Girls and Boys programs.
TRAVEL DIRECTIONS
Travel
directions to the fields can be accessed from the Tournament Homepage.
There should also be a field layout map posted for each venue. Make sure
you note the venue at which each of your games is located.
WEATHER-RELATED ALERTS
We avoid cancelling games due to adverse weather if at all possible, and
choose venues that have a high resistance to adverse conditions. So do not
assume games are being cancelled without firm confirmation. Also, do NOT
assume that the weather conditions outside your window are the same at the
gamesite fields; experience has shown that weather patterns in our area can be
highly localized.
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.
In the event of
precipitation or wet fields, there will be NO WARM-UPS within the four corners
of the field, including Keeper warm-ups. The fields will be used strictly for
game play.
Finally, if games are halted for lightning activity, then so
are warm-ups on the field. Some past teams have exhibited a bizarre notion
that lightning can strike during a game, but won't hit teams merely warming up
on the same field before the "all clear" signal is given.
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 at least some email addresses from
residential accounts (AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Comcast, Verizon, Optonline, Gmail, etc.)
Note that the
online registration form has space for at least three individuals (manager,
coach, contact) who can receive team email notifications. Please DO NOT
list the same person for all positions. If we are unable to get through
to this one individual, it leaves us no alternatives to pursue.
JOINT
BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST
SECURITY & ON-SITE CONCERNS
This applies to all
teams and individuals entering the military base for the event.
Please advise all team members who will be entering the base
that each vehicle must have:
** Valid Vehicle Registration
** Valid Vehicle Insurance Card
** Valid Drivers
License for the Driver
** Plus a Drivers License, Passport or other
Picture ID for each additional adult in the vehicle
The first three items are required on a vehicle by law at all
times, yet it has become surprising how many vehicles trying to enter the
base can not produce these basic items upon
request. Failure to produce these
documents has required parents to leave their vehicles at the entry gate.
Each
team also has to submit online a Security Roster, listing all team members
and spectators entering the base. This Online Security Roster is accessed
from the Tournament
Homepage by clicking on JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST ONLINE ENTRY DATA
INPUT.
We will be contacting Team Managers to provide them with their
screen name and passwords about two weeks before the event. This process
has to be completed by the Tuesday before the Tournament. If your roster is
not fully settled, if you are still waiting on guest players, and so on,
just forward the best roster you have as of the moment. If in doubt, always
err on the side of being more inclusive rather than less. This roster will
not impact the "playing roster" you present at registration.
Teams that have done such an online security roster for an
event in the last year will only need to update their existing entries.
(Same will apply to attendance at future Fort
Dix events.) You can
start preparing for this procedure by reading the JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST GATE ENTRY INFO LETTER
accessed from the Tournament Homepage and posted at http://www.socceragency.net/maps/Venues/JBMDL_Security_Info.htm. There is also a form you can print to
help you start collecting data on the Homepage, posted at http://www.socceragency.net/maps/Venues/JBMDL_SecurityData.pdf.
Make
sure to allow yourself 15 minutes additional to get through the gate, in
addition to the team’s normal pre-game / warm-up time. Security
gate entry time has become substantially less than its peak when first
introduced, as we have been working with Department of Defense Police
personnel to streamline procedures.
ON-SITE
CONCERNS
Some simple
rules for each facility we use:
·
Park
only in designated spots. You can get ticketed!
·
No
pets, on a leash or otherwise.
·
No
smoking anywhere near the showcase.
·
No
alcohol on the site of the competition.
·
Please
clean up water bottles, sports drinks, old tape and other team debris when
exiting your game site.
·
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
so restrictive, but there is no reason to feel constrained if everyone uses
common sense.
Looking
forward to a great soccer festival,
Bohdan E. Porytko
Director
973-998-9731
bohdan@mssl.org
www.socceragency.net/maps
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