Schedule subject to change until Friday, August 19, 2022, 10:00 PM TOURNAMENT IS AT ALTON PARK, AUGUST 20-21, 2022. * * * Tournament is RAIN OR SHINE * * *
SAT 8/20	Field 1	Field 2	Field 4
Field Setup	League	League	League
830	Seven Sirens Brewery H v Hammerhead Hammerhead 8-7	Morales Catering H v Forward Thinking Tech Morales 23-2 (4.5)	The Scabs H v Scottys Wanderers Scabs 16-9 (6.5)
1000	Hungry Hungry Hippos H v Bru Daddys Brewing Hippos 5-4 (6.5)	Stahleys H v Softball Family Stahleys 16-4 (6.5)	Northampton Legion H v CRS Logistics CRS 16-13
1130	The Scabs H v Morales Catering Scabs 19-15 (6.5)	Seven Sirens Brewery H v Forward Thinking Tech Sirens 18-3 (4.5)	Hammerhead H v Scottys Wanderers Hammerhead 18-17
100	Stahleys H v Northampton Legion Stahleys 15-13 (6.5)	Bru Daddys Brewing H v Softball Family Softball Fam 23-19	Hungry Hungry Hippos H v CRS Logistics Hippos 26-11 (5)
230	The Scabs H v Seven Sirens Brewery Scabs 12-5 (6.5)	Hammerhead H v Forward Thinking Tech Hammerhead 20-4 (4.5)	Morales Catering H v Scottys Wanderers Morales 22-15 (6.5)
400	Stahleys H v Hungry Hungry Hippos Hippos 23-2 (5)	Northampton Legion H v Softball Family Northampton 21-18 (6.5)	Bru Daddys Brewing H v CRS Logistics CRS 23-14
SUN 8/21	Field 1	Field 2	Field 4
Field Setup	League	League	League
830	Bru Daddys Brewing H v Northampton Legion Northampton 16-14	Hungry Hungry Hippos H v Softball Family Hippos 16-10 (6.5)	Stahleys H v CRS Logistics Stahleys 16-12 (6.5)
1000	Seven Sirens Brewery H v Scottys Wanderers Sirens 16-7 (6.5)	The Scabs H v Forward Thinking Tech Scabs 15-0 (5)	Hammerhead H v Morales Catering Morales 38-18
1130	Stahleys H v Bru Daddys Brewing Stahleys	CRS Logistics H v Softball Family CRS	Hungry Hungry Hippos H v Northampton Legion Hippos
100	The Scabs H v Hammerhead Scabs 10-7 (6.5)	Scottys Wanderers H v Forward Thinking Tech Scottys 15-0 (5)	Seven Sirens Brewery H v Morales Catering Sirens 15-10 (6.5)
* 230 * semi-finals	The Scabs v Stahleys Scabs 19-4 (4.5)		Hungry Hungry Hippos v Seven Sirens Hippos 24-9 (6)
* 400 * championship field 1	The Scabs v Hippos Hippos 21-10
* * * NO METAL SPIKES * * * * * * PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE ANY FIELD EQUIPMENT UNTIL FINAL GAME ENDS * * * No kegs allowed in the park. No driving through park. No parking on grass. Do not allow trash cans to overflow. Bring trash bags for your recyclables.
Brackets BLUE DIVISION The Scabs 4-0 Seven Sirens Brewery 2-2 Hammerhead 3-1 Morales Catering 3-1 Scottys Wanderers 1-4 Forward Thinking Tech 0-5 RED DIVISION Stahleys 4-1 Hungry Hungry Hippos 5-0 Bru Daddys Brewing 0-5 Northampton Legion 2-3 CRS Logistics 3-2 Softball Family 1-4

Tournament seeding is based on standings as of August 16.
Blue Division: Seeds 1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12.
Red Division: Seeds 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11.
All games are 7 innings. Mercy rule is 15 runs after 5 innings (4.5 if home team is winning).
Eligible players must have played at least 8 games and be on the roster.
Field assignments are subject to change without notice, at any time, for any reason.
Teams must be prepared to resume play within 10 minutes of official notification.

Tournament is rain or shine. The first round starts at 8:30 AM SHARP on both days. The second round starts at 9:30 AM. After that, all other times are approximate and must start as soon as the field is available. There is no grace period. Game time is forfeit time. Game time after the first round is determined as follows:
- if a team is still playing, forfeit time is 15 minutes after their current game ends.
- if the field is still in use, forfeit time is 10 minutes after the conclusion of that game.
- if a game is forfeited, the next game on that field must start within 10 minutes.

All batters start with a 1-1 pitch count. The league provides one and only one game ball for each game. The higher seed is the home team for every pool play game, except semi-finals and finals. Confirm ground rules before every game. After the first inning, warmups are limited to 5 pitches. A new pitcher who has not yet pitched in the game is limited to 10 pitches. Immediately following each game, both teams must report the final score and number of innings/half-innings played. Please do NOT remove any field equipment until the end of the day.

This is a no-protest tournament. (Actually, we dont care for whining, either!) All disputes must be resolved before play continues.

This is a divisional round-robin tournament. The top 2 teams from each division advance to a single-elimination semi-final. Red seed #1 plays Blue seed #2. Red seed #2 plays Blue seed #1. The league provides 1 umpire for semi-final games, 2 for the championship game. The higher seed teams are the home teams in the semi-final games. In the championship game, a 1 seed is always home against a 2 seed; but if the seeds are equal, a coin toss determines the home team.

Tiebreakers: any time a team or teams are advanced or eliminated by tiebreaker, the remaining tied teams start again from the first applicable tiebreaker rule.

1st tiebreaker: combined head-to-head tourney (CHTH) record among tied teams
(1a) if 2 teams tie for first place, the winner of head-to-head game advances as the first seed, the loser as second seed
(1b) if 2 teams tie for second place, the winner of head-to-head game advances as second seed
(1c) if 3 teams tie for first, a team that beat both others advances as the first seed, then (1b)
(1d) if 3 teams tie for second, a team that has beat both others advances

2nd tiebreaker: rank tied teams by runs allowed per inning for combined head-to-head tournament games among tied teams -- the one team with lowest ratio advances and remaining tied teams start over

3rd tiebreaker: rank tied teams by runs allowed per inning for all tournament games -- the one team with the lowest ratio advances and remaining tied teams start over

4th tiebreaker: chance
(4a) if 2 teams remain tied, flip a coin
(4b) if 3 or more teams remain tied, draw straws


* Runs Allowed per Inning: the total number of runs given up by that team in applicable games, divided by the number of half-innings played on defense by that team in applicable games. Any part of a half-inning played on defense counts as a complete half-inning for the purposes of this tiebreaker. Games which are forfeit before play begins do not count in this tiebreaker. Games which start but are forfeit before completion do count in this tiebreaker.