These are metal bat tournaments, unless otherwise stated in tournament description.
Age Requirements: 18U: Any player who has graduated high school in 2011 or has not yet graduated high school is eligible to play. Any player who graduated high school in 2010 or earlier must not have turned 18 prior to May 1st, 2011. 17U: Any player who entering into their senior year of high school (or younger grades) is eligible to play. 16U: Must not have turned 17 prior to May 1st, 2011. 15U: Must not have turned 16 prior to May 1st, 2011. 14U: Must not have turned 15 prior to May 1st, 2011.
Teams will be subject to 7 inning games or 2 hour time rule. No new inning will begin after the 2 hour time limit has elapsed.
The Championship rounds will be subject to a time rule. The Championship Game WILL NOT be subject to a time rule.
The Championship rounds will be subject to our normal run rules. The Championship game will be subject to a 10 run/5 inning rule only.
Run Rules: 15 runs/3 innings, 10 runs/4 innings, and 8 runs/ 5 innings.
Tournament will be operating under pool play with a minimum of 1 team from each pool advancing.
Pre-Game
Unless given permission by a tournament official, there will be no infield prior to any games.
Please stay off infield and mound areas prior to all games.
Please, no soft toss with hard baseballs against fencing.
Please, no throwing or ground balls taken in front of dugouts.
Teams should be ready to play a minimum of 30 minutes prior to their scheduled game.
Teams will be given 15 minutes of prep time between all games.
Any game that finishes early will result in the early start for all following games.
Coaches should meet 30 minutes prior to game time for coin flip to determine home and visiting teams.
Any Pre-Game rule that is not followed could result in a forfeit at the Tournament Directors discretion.
Game Rules
Courtesy Runner: a courtesy runner will be allowed for pitchers and catchers. And this will be required for catchers with 2 outs. The courtesy runner must be a player that is not already in the game or the player who made the last out only if there is no other available players on you roster.
DH & EH: Teams will be allowed to use both a DH and up to 3 EHs. If a DH enters the game defensively, the DH will be eliminated for the rest of the game. The EHs may be used as defensive substitutions but must remain in their position in the batting order. The player he replaces in the field will in turn become an EH.
In the event of an injury and there are zero eligible players left on the bench, and a team is using an EH or EH & DH (meaning using 10 players in the batting order) the automatic out rule will NOT be in effect. You may simply skip the injured players spot in the order. However, if a team is playing with 9 players only (and zero eligible subs) the automatic out rule will be enforced.
Pitching Restrictions: Coaches are responsible for the health of their player’s arms. Please use common sense.
In Game Tie Breakers: Any game that enters into the 9th inning will go into the hurry up mode. The last batted out of the previous inning will start at 2nd base with no outs. This will continue until a winner has been determined or any applicable time limit has elapsed. In pool play, the game will result in a tie. In Championship Play, we continue until a winner is determined.
In Championship and Consolation play, the higher seed will always be home team until the Championship or Consolation Final. Then a coin flip will determine home team.
Other than what is stated above, all tournament games will abide by the NFHS rules. NO jewelry will be allowed to be worn during a TPT event.
Team Advancement
The team with the best record in each pool will advance into Championship Play. In the event of a tie, head to head results will determine the Pool Champion. If the teams involved in a tie have not all played each other and head to head cannot be used, the following stats (in the same order) will be used in order to determine which team will advance: runs allowed, runs scored, and run differential. If there is still a tie, we will go to a coin flip to determine a winner. (In a three way tie, once the first team advances we will always revert back to head to head play as the determining factor with the two remaining teams.)
Tournament Policies
Inclement Weather: games will be considered “official” after 4 innings of play (3.5 if the home team is winning). All final scores will be recorded on the last FULL INNING of play if game is suspended for any reason.
In the event of a rain out, that game will be either pushed back or cancelled. The teams that are scheduled to play the following game should be ready to play at their scheduled time.
Please understand that we cannot control Mother Nature, and she could cause the cancellation of games. Our tournament staff will do everything possible to keep games on schedule and get all teams as many games as the weather permits.
In the event of some game cancellations, the official tournament record of all teams will only be reflected by the total number of games that the teams who had games canceled. Example: If one team in a pool only played 4 games, we will only use the first 4 games of all teams in that pool to determine a Pool Champion. Any game 5 by any team in that pool will not count toward pool standings or tie breaker standings.
Teams will receive a 70% refund of all tournament fees if the entire tournament is cancelled and zero games are played due to weather.
Teams will receive a 100% refund of all tournament fees if the tournament is cancelled by Triple Play Tournaments for any reason other than weather.
Once a team’s game 2 has begun, there will be no refunds.
Teams that withdraw from the tournament 60 days prior will receive a 100% refund. Teams that withdraw after the 60 day grace period will not be entitled to a refund unless that teams spot can be replaced by another team. There will be no refunds 30 days prior to tournament start date.
Gate fees and or registration fees are non-refundable.
Tournament Guidelines
All teams MUST carry insurance.
Coaches must complete and submit the tournament Team Scout Page 2 weeks prior to the tournament start date (for 16U and 18U only). To make this a scout friendly event, please be sure to fill out the form with all of the information it calls for.
Appeals: Judgment calls are not subject to appeals. All other appeals will call for $100 to the tournament director. If the appeal goes in your favor, the $100 fee will be refunded.
Ejections: Any player, coach, or fan that has been ejected from a game will be asked to leave the complex before the game can resume. All ejections call for a 2nd game suspension and possible tournament suspension at the Tournament Directors discretion. Any ejection that is deemed violent or of violent intent will result in a full tournament ejection.
Code of conduct. We are in the business of “Promoting the game of Baseball” the best we can. We are not interested in “Behavior Unbecoming a True Ballplayer” or coach for that matter. We will not tolerate the throwing of equipment or use of foul language. Please police your own players so that our officials or our tournament staff does not need to get involved.
Last but not least, discussing calls with umpires. All “discussions” with our officials will need to be done in a professional manner. And, all talks with our officials MUST be done on the field ONLY. Any player, parent, or coach that follows or approaches an official outside the field of play will risk his or her team’s disqualification from our event.
