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My Son's Soccer Tournament in Germantown is ON!
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Anonymous
| This is so nuts to me. Last game is in the late afternoon. Anyone else? |
Anonymous
| Sounds like muddy fun! It'll be alright. |
Anonymous
| leave it to the coaches, seriously. let your son grow up a man not a wimp. |
Anonymous
But how is he going to fit in in DC if she doesn't leave it to the coaches? 
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Anonymous
| No one is putting a gun to your head to be there. |
Anonymous
| I think it's ridiculous, too, OP. Good luck. How old is your son? |
Anonymous
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It's barely drizzling out right now. They will call it if the weather gets serious.
Muddy and inconvenient is not a reason to cancel a tournament. |
Anonymous
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It's not bad out right now. If it looks as though it will get worse, I'm sure they will postpone the rest of it.
I can remember playing a soccer game in the rain when I was 5 or 6. We survived. |
Anonymous
| We are doing one in Herndon today and tomorrow. They scaled back to 2 games per team and tomorrow is turf fields only. They are playing right now. It's really just raining at the moment and soccer tends to be played in the rain. |
Anonymous
| Hope your kid went. The weather was fine for a game. |
Anonymous
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The thing about soccer tournaments is that teams pay an entrance fee of several hundred dollars to the host team or organization, and this entrance fee is generally non-refundable -- because by the time the tournament will start, all the money will have already been spent on things like renting the fields, getting the fields lined, if needed some new goals and balls and nets, portalets, special fees to the township for picking up the anticipated extra trash, medals and statuettes, et cetera.
So tournament hosts want to hold the tournament if at all possible, and not just take everybody's entrance fees for nothing. The teams are forking out bucks to enter, and it's not like the tournament hosts stand to make a profit if they cancel the tournament. As a former volunteer soccer tournament organizer, I can say that it sucks for everybody when a hurricane is bearing down on you. Call it off soon, before the out-of-state teams leave? Wait until the last minute to see if there's any chance the storm turns away from you and you can hold it? |