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Anonymous wrote:So do the new restrictions mean the tournament will be canceled?

No. No new restrictions since last week. Press conference was pointless. FYI AAU basketball and club volleyball are in full swing right now. Outdoor soccer is the least of our problems.

I didn't want to reference other sports before, but that's another thing that makes these soccer spectator rules so ridiculous. How can indoor sports like hockey, volleyball, basketball be continuing or starting and then we have organizations acting like a few dozen people standing around a soccer field is a concern. Heck the car pools that might occur due to restricting parents is a bigger risk.

+1 the thought process is asinine at best. Nothing can be more clear than this being a money grab only. Boycott...

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know how they expect this to work, people driving 90 minutes each way to sit in their cars for 8 hours straight? Unlikely.

These performative rules are an unnecessary pain in the neck. Bars and restaurants are still open but these tournaments are going to prevent a single parent spectator outdoors which presents basically zero COVID risk.

Yeah, it really is stupid. How is it "safe" to be indoors at a bar/restaurant, but somehow less safe to be outdoors watching a sporting event? In both scenarios, one can socially distance (in fact, it's much easier to maintain social distance outside) ... some reasonable limit like 1 or 2 spectators per play would be more than enough to keep folks very spread out.

Our governor is stupid so nobody should be surprised that his COVID order is stupid.

I think Northam has been great. It is not Northam creating these Tournament policies. It would have made more sense to stick with no Tournaments and avoid this mess but sponsoring clubs could not resist the money and everyone wants the dog and pony show. Now there is this pressure to just do something to show you are concerned (while still collecting all the money) and here come the nonsensical policies.

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Anonymous wrote:So do the new restrictions mean the tournament will be canceled?

No. No new restrictions since last week. Press conference was pointless. FYI AAU basketball and club volleyball are in full swing right now. Outdoor soccer is the least of our problems.

I didn't want to reference other sports before, but that's another thing that makes these soccer spectator rules so ridiculous. How can indoor sports like hockey, volleyball, basketball be continuing or starting and then we have organizations acting like a few dozen people standing around a soccer field is a concern. Heck the car pools that might occur due to restricting parents is a bigger risk.

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Anonymous wrote:So do the new restrictions mean the tournament will be canceled?

No. No new restrictions since last week. Press conference was pointless. FYI AAU basketball and club volleyball are in full swing right now. Outdoor soccer is the least of our problems.

I didn't want to reference other sports before, but that's another thing that makes these soccer spectator rules so ridiculous. How can indoor sports like hockey, volleyball, basketball be continuing or starting and then we have organizations acting like a few dozen people standing around a soccer field is a concern. Heck the car pools that might occur due to restricting parents is a bigger risk.

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Anonymous wrote:So do the new restrictions mean the tournament will be canceled?

No. No new restrictions since last week. Press conference was pointless. FYI AAU basketball and club volleyball are in full swing right now. Outdoor soccer is the least of our problems.

Anonymous wrote:So do the new restrictions mean the tournament will be canceled?

Anonymous wrote:Remember when he did blackface and the Democratic Party voters didn't care?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know how they expect this to work, people driving 90 minutes each way to sit in their cars for 8 hours straight? Unlikely.

These performative rules are an unnecessary pain in the neck. Bars and restaurants are still open but these tournaments are going to prevent a single parent spectator outdoors which presents basically zero COVID risk.

Yeah, it really is stupid. How is it "safe" to be indoors at a bar/restaurant, but somehow less safe to be outdoors watching a sporting event? In both scenarios, one can socially distance (in fact, it's much easier to maintain social distance outside) ... some reasonable limit like 1 or 2 spectators per play would be more than enough to keep folks very spread out.

Our governor is stupid so nobody should be surprised that his COVID order is stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:So do the new restrictions mean the tournament will be canceled?

whats the point of this tournament now? Parents should protest by not going at all. Money grabbing tournament organizers... Either allow one parent to attend AS IS CURRENTLY ALLOWABLE by law or don't have it at all. Rise up parents

by law? The executive order say no spectators over 25. Why rise up against it and lose the opportunity for the kids to play. As much as it sucks to miss the games I think its a fair middle ground to let the kids play before the real shelter in place happens. Winter is coming.

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Anonymous wrote:So do the new restrictions mean the tournament will be canceled?

whats the point of this tournament now? Parents should protest by not going at all. Money grabbing tournament organizers... Either allow one parent to attend AS IS CURRENTLY ALLOWABLE by law or don't have it at all. Rise up parents

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know how they expect this to work, people driving 90 minutes each way to sit in their cars for 8 hours straight? Unlikely.

These performative rules are an unnecessary pain in the neck. Bars and restaurants are still open but these tournaments are going to prevent a single parent spectator outdoors which presents basically zero COVID risk.

Yeah, it really is stupid. How is it "safe" to be indoors at a bar/restaurant, but somehow less safe to be outdoors watching a sporting event? In both scenarios, one can socially distance (in fact, it's much easier to maintain social distance outside) ... some reasonable limit like 1 or 2 spectators per play would be more than enough to keep folks very spread out.

Our governor is stupid so nobody should be surprised that his COVID order is stupid.