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The schedule for State has been released. Reminder that this is a full 3 day event for youth and 4 full day event for High School - teams are scheduled to play during the day on Thursday (high school) and Friday (youth) with the exception of a few smaller divisions.
Our goal this season has been to create a culminating event that takes into account how teams have preformed during the other weekends, qualified for a specific bracket and then used their overall rankings to group them with their most similarly performing teams through last weekend.
A more detailed event email will follow (likely on Monday) but in the meantime, please be on the lookout for your game changer links to join this event!
All youth questions can be directed towards Arlo Evasick at arlo.evasick@toptiersports.net and high school questions to Kelly Gau at kelly.gau@toptiersports.net
Good luck to everyone at State next weekend.
All - locations for state have been set... Please see the name of your division to see general location (fields being allocated soon) and to make sure you are in the correct division. If you have finished 1-2 in any tournament or top 4 of the Art Wright, you should be in the qualified division. If you are a more competitive team and have performed well in our events, there is a chance we moved you up to a better bracket for competitive purposes.
How the event will work: Whenever doable, divisions will be spit into groupings of 8 team double elimination brackets based on current standings (ELO). This event is slated to be played ALL 3 days, Fri - Sun (8-14u) and 4 days Th - Sun (15-18u),starting as early as 10:00am on Friday. All teams must be available to play in the AM on Friday. Not everyone will get a morning game, but the expectation is teams are able to play that day. We need 3 full days to complete a double elimination tournament bracket without the potential of teams playing more than 2-3 games in a day.
If you have any questions or need any changes, please let us know immediately as everythign will get set and finalized after the conclusion of this weekends' event.
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You are currently registered for the State Championships. Registrations will close down Monday and we will begin allocating divisions to locations. Divisions will be split into the most competitive double elimination brackets based on rankings and qualified teams (1/2 in events) and not. Reminder that this is a full 3 day event for youth (8-14u) and 15-18u will start Thursday evening.
Knowing who is in and who is out is essential for making this work well and creating a truer state championship format. If you are unpaid by Monday, you will be moved to a waiting list and we will get in if we can. If we do not here back, you will be removed as we will just assume you are out. Once we have confirmation of who is in and who is out, we will have locations per bracket set and communicate to everyone. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks!
Arlo Evasick
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Welcome to the Top Tier Washington State Championships! This season, we fully intend to bring back the meaning of a TRUE state championship. For youth (8-14u) There will be two different events; 1) Qualified divisions (must finish 1st or 2nd in any event OR top 4 in larger events) and you will receive an invitation post event and 2) Open divisions, we realize this is a massive baseball weekend and not everyone is going to qualify but will still want to play. If you know you are going to play this weekend but haven't qualified yet, you can sign up for open! We will take a MAX of 24 teams per age division. 16 qualified and 8 open. All 8-14u teams should fully intend on playing all day Friday - Sunday in a true, double elimination tournament from the start. As for 15-18u, We will also take a max of 24 teams in each age division, including an exclusive, invite only division for what we believe to be the top 8 in each division. Teams will play be expected to Start Thursday afternoon and play in a double elimination bracket through Sunday evening.
- Tournament
- All teams
- Boys: 18U, 16U-8U
- Ability: AA/AAA/Major
- $800.00-$1,300.00 entry fee
- 4 game guarantee
- Exposure Certified
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General Information
2026 Top Tier Washington State Championships
Registration NOW OPEN!
15-18U Contacts: Kelly Gau or Kyle Henington
8-14u Contacts: Matt Creaser or Kaden Kirshenbaum
Tournament Details
Game Guarantee: 4 games
Roster Rules: All players must be rostered/sign a waiver prior to the first pitch of an event. Any unrostered player will be removed for the duration of the event. Rostering Support Page - How to Roster
Game Changer: Teams are required to score in the game changer event that we create. You will received an invitaiton upon registration for an event. Game Changer Support Page
Baseballs: Provided by Top Tier Sports. Teams are expected to help return foul balls. We will not throw additional baseballs into a game if they are not being chased down.
Field Allocations: 15-18u will be played all over the Puget Sound (we generally try and schedule based on location). If traveling from out of town, please let us know where you are stayng. 8-14u locations will be set 2 months prior to the start of the event.
Bat Rules
15U - 18U: BBCOR
14U: BBCOR
8U - 13U: BPF 1.15 (USSSA stamped)
Tournament Start Dates / Formatting
15U - 18U: 24 max teams per age division split into 3 different groupings of 8 (invite only, Gold and Silver). All will start on Thursday and participate in an 8 team double elimination bracket that runs through Sunday!
8U - 14U: 24 teams max per age division (16 qualified teams and 8 open teams). Teams will participate in 3 pool play games between Friday and Saturday then split into a gold / silver 8 team bracket on Sunday.
Prizes & Awards
1st place teams in every division (Majors, AAA & AA) will receive a team and individual awards. 2nd place teams will receive individual awards. 1st place in silver brackets will receive individual awards as well.
All-Tournament Teams & Tournament MVPs
All tournament teams are selected by our staff based on how players performed at the event. It is vital that games are scored correctly within the Top Tier Game Changer event that is set up in order for a players stats to count. While we cannot guarantee representation from each team, this is something considered. Players who are selected for the All-Tournament teams will be invited to the All-State Games at the end of the season.
Registration
Registration is currently open for the following divisions:
- 9u Kings of the NW (Kirkland - Redmond) - State Championships 8-10u ($800.00) - 6 / 8 teams
- 9u Qualified (Puyallup - Tacoma) - State Championships 8-10u ($800.00) - 8 / 8 teams
- 9u Open (Puyallup - Tacoma) - State Championships 8-10u ($800.00) - 8 / 8 teams
- 10u Kings of the NW (North Bend - Mercer Island) - State Championships 8-10u ($800.00)
- 10u Qualified (Puyallup - Tacoma) - State Championships 8-10u ($800.00)
- 10u Open (Puyallup - Tacoma) - State Championships 8-10u ($800.00) - 6 / 8 teams
- 11U State Championships (North Bend - Mercer Island) - State Championships 11-12u ($850.00)
- 11u AA State Championships Open (Puyallup - Tacoma) - State Championships 11-12u ($850.00) - 9 / 9 teams
- 12u Kings of the NW (Puyallup - Tacoma) - State Championships 11-12u ($850.00) - 8 / 8 teams
- 12u Qualified (Puyallup - Tacoma) - State Championships 11-12u ($850.00) - 24 / 24 teams
- 12u Open (Redmond - Bellevue) - State Championships 11-12u ($850.00) - 5 / 6 teams
- 13u Kings of the NW (Redmond - Bellevue) - State Championships 13-14u ($900.00) - 8 / 8 teams
- 13u Qualified (Puyallup - Tacoma) - State Championships 13-14u ($900.00) - 24 / 24 teams
- 13u Open (Redmond - Bellevue) - State Championships 13-14u ($900.00) - 16 / 16 teams
- 14u Kings of the NW (Centralia) - State Championships 13-14u ($900.00) - 8 / 8 teams
- 14u Qualified (Centralia) - State Championships 13-14u ($900.00) - 16 / 16 teams
- 14u Open (Puyallup - Tacoma) - State Championships 13-14u ($900.00) - 8 / 8 teams
- 15u Division (Pierce/King County) - State Championships 15-18u ($1,300.00) - 32 / 32 teams
- 16u Invite Only (Pierce/King County) - State Championships 15-18u ($1,300.00) - 12 / 12 teams
- 16u Division(Pierce/King County) - State Championships 15-18u ($1,300.00) - 16 / 16 teams
- 18u Invite Only (Centralia) - State Championships 15-18u ($1,300.00) - 16 / 16 teams
- 18u Division(Pierce/King County) - State Championships 15-18u ($1,300.00) - 16 / 26 teams
To make a payment please visit the payments section of the event.
All event related questions should be directed to Arlo Evasick at arlo.evasick@toptiersports.net or call 360-316-9439.
