Southern Sports "COASTAL WORLD SERIES" 2Smooth

Coaches,

We need the names of your players that will participate in the Thursday evening skills contest. The only names will be the players who will be entered in "FASTEST MAN" and "FASTEST BAT". We do not need the names for the 'AROUND THE HORN" event.

Please reply to this message before Monday at 1pm with the names of those players.

Thank You!

Coaches,

Please forward this message to your families......

Our inventory is getting very low, and we anticipate being out of some sizes when this event begins. Please go ahead and order your shirts so that you are not left out!

The following link will take you to the page where you can place your order. The online orders will be ready for pick-up when you arrive at the park.

https://www.southernsportspromotions.com/tournament-shirts

Coaches,

We are excited to host your team and families at the Coastal World Series in Brunswick on June 25th-28th.

We wanted to touch on a few things in this message.

RELEASE OF SCHEDULE
We anticipate releasing the schedule on June 19th. It was be posted on our phone app and website. Please have your families download the phone app in order to have access to all of the event information (phone app = southernsportspromotions)

PRE-ORDER T-SHIRTS
We sell out of t-shirts early each year! Some sizes will be sold out before the tournament begins. You can place pre-orders for 7 or more shirts on the following link: https://www.southernsportspromotions.com/tournament-shirts
We are placing our order later this week. If you order by Wednesday, all sizes are available. If you order after Wednesday, you will be limited by what sizes are still in stock. If your team plans to get shirts, we highly encourage you to order by Wednesday to guarantee you get the sizes you want.

SKILLS CONTEST
The skills contest is scheduled for Thursday evening, and pin trading will happen during the skills competition. Below is a summary of the events for the skills contest:

1) Fastest Man - 1 player per team will participate. The player is timed running from home plate around all bases concluding when thay cross the plate. The fastest time in each group will be the champion.

2) Around the Horn - this event will be a timed throw from home plate to 3B to 2B to 1B back to home plate (and repeated for a second time in the same session). Teams can have multiple players in order to maximize the number of players involved. The fastest time in each age group will be the champion.

3) Fastest Bat - 1 player per team will participate. (Max Velo off the tee will be measured from 3 swings off the tee). Fastest Velo in each age group will be the champion.

Pin Trading
Although pin trading can happen throughout the event, the scheduled pin trading will take place on Thursday, once teams begin to arrive for the skills competition at the North Glynn softball complex. If you haven't planned to, it's not too late. You can get inexpensive pins from Crown Awards within a week. https://www.crownawards.com/StoreFront/H6R.Custom_Insert_Pins.cat

Stay to Play
This is a stay-to-play event for all teams traveling to the tournament. Feel free to respond to the email version of this message if you want us to check on our your room totals. (All rooms had to be booked thru the Southern Sports Promotions portal of Lucid Travel at https://www.lucidtravel.com/event/23130
We don't have any team hotels, you just have to book thru this portal. But many teams have elected to pay the opt-out fee of $250. If you elect to do that, please go on and take care of the fee here: https://baseball.exposureevents.com/250789/southern-sports-coastal-world-series/payments

Any questions, please ask.

THANK YOU!

Please make sure that your team understands the policy on lodging at the Coastal World Series. Below is the section from World Series webpage.....please follow these guidelines:

STAY TO PLAY EVENT
This is a "stay to play event". Any team traveling over 75 miles to play IS REQUIRED to stay in one of the tournament hotels. The majority of all area hotels and resorts will be options for teams.

If a team chooses to opt out of the "stay to play" program (and make their own reservations), there will be a $250 per team fee to opt-out with no exception.
When we designed this tournament, we tried to make the entry fee as inexpensive as possible. Most teams will need lodging for this event, so by using a travel partner, this was a way to reduce the entry fee. But we understand that some teams will want to rent homes, use hotel points, etc., so that's why we offer both.

A team will have considered meeting this requirement by booking 35 rooms (12 rooms a night x 3 nights).

We will determine final age groups by May 25. Do not book anything that doesn't allow you to cancel your rooms without a fee prior to that date.

Here is the link to the stay and play website. Rooms must be booked thru this link:
LUCID TRAVEL RESERVATIONS

Coaches,
We look forward to hosting you and your team for the upcoming Coastal World Series!
We encourage teams to trade pins with other teams.

If you haven't planned to, it's not too late. You can get inexpensive pins from Crown Awards within a week. https://www.crownawards.com/StoreFront/H6R.Custom_Insert_Pins.cat

The players always enjoy trading pins, so we encourage everyone to participate. We typically have told teams to get about 20 pins per player.

Thanks so much!