The tentative 2012 schedule is posted here. Please check back often for additions, subtractions or changes.
If you are interested in hosting a tournament in the upcoming 2012 season, please contact Gordon Patterson, Stephen Schiller, Lisa Walt, Mike Via, Jerry Clipse, Vince Tucker, or Dennis Browning.
Entry Fee $395 before March 1st; $495 after March 1st
All 8U-14U teams must qualify to play in the USSSA World Series. 16U & 18U teams do not have to play in a State Tournament to qualify; however, to participate as a "B" team, they must participate in a least one USSSA qualified event to get "B" status.
To qualify, teams must actively participate in a least one qualifying USSSA tournament and one of the USSSA State Championships.* To get "B" status, your team may be required to play in more than one qualifying tournament. Registering, paying online, and reserving hotels does NOT qualify your participation in the USSSA World Series
or State Championships.
Your team's A or B status is determined by the State Director and/or the USSSA National Office. Registering in a "B" division does NOT guarantee you will play in your age group's "B" division if the State Director or National Office classify you an "A" team.
* Some Special Events may be announced to automatically qualify teams for the USSSA World Series
World
Championships
July 21-28, 2012
USSSA heads
back to Orlando with ESPNHS and ESPN
Wide World of Sports for the
USSSA/ESPNHS Games World
Championships in July. This
event doubled in size from the
previous season and looks to
continue the growth into this
season. Please see the links
to the right or click the link below
to see all of the information on
this great event.
USSSA Road to
Orlando
World Series
July 28-Aug 4, 2012
In 2011, 275 teams descended on the
Orlando/Kissimmee/Osceola County
area for the USSSA Road to Orlando
World Series. This event
featured teams from across the
country in ages 8U-14U (including
the 11U and 13U single-age
divisions). For 2012, we look
for this event to continue the
growth that it has shown by jumping
from a 129 team event in 2009!
We invite your team to Orlando to
spend a week at this great event.
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USSSA World
Series
Lodging
Special!!
Buy 7 Get 5
FREE!
For 2012, USSSA has negotiated an unbelievable
opportunity for your teams. We have
contracted with hotels that will
offer your team a great deal. With
the purchase of 7 rooms (for a
minimum of 6 nights), your team will
receive 5 rooms free PER NIGHT!!!
On a property that has a rate of $79 per night (and your
teams uses 12 rooms for the 6
nights) you will save $2300+ for
your trip to Orlando.
CLICK
HERE for an
updated list and contact information
for these properties.
Early
Registration Discount!
Deadline
February 29, 2012
The 2012 USSSA Road to Orlando World Series will again have an early entry discount. The regular entry fee is $495, but if you complete your online entry and payment BEFORE March 1st, it is only $395. |
Here is some important information about re-classifying your team to an even-numbered age group.
If a team manager created an odd-aged team for the fall (9U, 11U, 13U or 15U), then he/she has one of three options for the new year:
1) Play this spring/summer as a one year younger team (example, 15U back to 14U). Delete the players who are too old to play in the age group. For example, let's say a 14U team in 2011 decided to play in the fall with their 2011 players (which included 1996 girls). They registered as a 15U in the fall. However, in 2012 they want to be a 14U team again, then the manager would delete any 1996 girls from the roster and email (gordon.patterson@usssa.com) the Florida office requesting that they be reclassified as a 14U team.
2) Play this spring/summer as a one year older team. Let the Florida office know that as well. Following the above example, if a team registers as a 15U team in the fall, but then this spring/summer wants to pick up players born in 1995, then we would have to reclassify that team as a 16U.
3) Teams can do nothing and just stay as an 9U, 11U, 13U or 15U team for the spring/summer of 2012. Odd-aged teams will have to play in the even-numbered age events since there are no odd-number age tournaments in the spring/summer except the World Series.
Here is a link to an age calculator:
http://www.usssa.com/sports/AgeCalculator.asp?SportID=16
If you have any questions, please contact your State Director, Gordon Patterson, at gordon.patterson@usssa.com or your area director.
PLEASE DO NOT EMAIL THE NATIONAL OFFICE. They will refer you to the State Director.
Thank you for playing USSSA Fastpitch. We are looking forward to another exciting year.
NOTE: Tournament Directors reserve the right to deny "A" teams playing up in older "B"
1) Winning Percentage
(Win = 2 points, Tie = 1 point, Loss = 0 points)
NOTE: 2 Ties = 1 Win (Florida USSSA Fastpitch)
At this time, the USSSA online system does not recognize
2 Ties as the equivalent of 1 Win; Florida USSSA does
2) Head-to-head if 2 teams are tied with same winning %
No head-to-head when 3 or more teams are tied in seeding
3) Fewest Runs Allowed
4) Most Runs Scored
5) Coin flip
Florida USSSA Fastpitch does NOT use average run differential with a maximum of (8) as indicated on the USSSA online system
In the event a tournament is shortened due to weather on Sunday, the following tiebreaker system will be used in the event a tournament cannot be completed:
1) An undefeated team in ELIMINATION BRACKET will be placed 1st.
2) If more than one team is undefeated, or tied with same number of losses, it will be decided by average runs allowed per game in single or double elimination.
3) "7-inning" coin flip would be last resort if the above still ends up in tie.
The final order of finish will be decided by AVERAGE RUNS ALLOWED PER GAME in ELIMINATION GAMES ONLY (provided every team has played at least one game in bracket play). We do not include seeding games in average runs allowed per game.
If RUNS ALLOWED ARE IDENTICAL, we use a "7-inning" coin flip (best 4 out of 7 wins). The highest remaining seed calls the 1st inning, the next highest remaining seed calls the 2nd inning. Each team calls an inning until 4 innings are "won." That team will be declared CHAMPION.
NOTE: We do NOT use RUNS SCORED (we discourage "running up" scores) in determing final order of finish in the event of a weather-shortened tournament. We use RUNS ALLOWED then 7-inning coin flip (unless a team has not played an elimination game (bracket game on Sunday).
In the event a team has not played an elimination game (bracket game on Sunday), we will revert back to the HIGHEST REMAINING SEED wins the tournament.
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