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| USTBA-USA® welcomes reputable, responsible individuals, teams and organizations the opportunity to host a sanctioned event. We expect the highest standards of excellence, integrity and commitment by Tournament Hosts, officials, umpires and facility maintenance crews to project professionalism throughout the event and create a positive experience for everyone. | | | 
| | | BENEFITS OF HOSTING Hosting a United States Travel Softball Association® event offers your team or organization the opportunity to generate terrific income in a single weekend. USTBA-USA® Sanctioned Tournaments are designed to reduce a team’s participation cost and and increase tournament host profits while providing more teams the opportunity to advance to a Championship Game. USTBA-USA® offers Invitational, State, Regional and National Championship levels of play. | TOURNAMENT SANCTIONING
Being the newest fast pitch softball tournament sanctioning organization, USTBA-USA® can be a new, exciting and attractive option for teams seeking competitive tournament play. Upon registering your event, and signing our event licensing agreement, you will be assured that your dates are protected and no other USTBA-USA® event will be held within your market area. This will assist you in the success of your tournament and insures that no other USTBA-USA® event imposes or competes for potential participants. | | |
| | | PROMOTION and SUPPORT
USTBA - USA will provide a listing of your event on our National Web Site at USTBA-USA.net, under “Tournaments” along with providing you your own tournament page. Your event will also be included in our monthly electronic mail Newsletter, “Hardball News”, sent to hundreds of teams in your geographic area. We'll make available all necessary graphics and forms to assist you in your promotional efforts as well as an event banner to display at your location. Upon completion of your tournament, game scores and team order of placement will be listed under “Tournament Results” with a News Story of the Championship Games. All necessary forms are available on our website at www.USTSA.net under “Forms” for Host and Teams. | YOUR PROFITS
YOU retain all team entry fees, gate admissions, concession profits, souvenir sale proceeds, and sponsor commissions. We offer the lowest sanctioning fees available! Teams submit tournament entry fee’s directly to YOU, in advance, providing the necessary funds to purchase awards, T-shirts, facility rental and miscellaneous cost!
MERCHANDISING SUPPORT
Tournament hosts can order directly from USTBA-USA®: souvenir T-shirts, staff shirts, team trophies, individual trophies, plaques and medals at a greatly discounted cost. Items are shipped right to your door before the start of your event and help’s ease your administrative functions. | | |
| TOURNAMENT FORMATS The below listed tournaments are approved formats by USTBA-USA® . It is the discretion of the Tournament Host to determine which format is used. 3 Game Elite Format
This format will be based on a 8 team minimum and will consist of a 2 game pool play, where then each team will be seeded into a single elimination bracket. The top half teams will be seeded to the AMERICAN DIVISION and the remainder of teams will be seeded in the NATIONAL DIVISION | 4 - 5 Game Elite Format
This format will be based on a non-required number of team minimum and will consist of a 2-3 game pool play, where then each team will be seeded into a AMERICAN DIVISION or NATIONAL DIVISION bracket and each will play for a championship. |
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