AYSES Fun

County Road 317..cow pasture with do drainage...BALLOONS to indicate directions?...scheduling teams for 3 games at 3 different fields over a 20 mile radius(Is this too difficult to figure out how to make the seedings work?)....canceling the tournament after some light drizzle.....Officials who were more concerned with finishing the game to go to the house rather than calling an appropriate match?

Thank you AYSES and Sammy/Sammi/Sami(SP?) for a waste of a weekend...Your reputation was confirmed this weekend....

I hope that many/all will choose to avoid these disasters in the future.....

Ibra,
I think your comments are way out of line here.... No one, I mean no one has any control over the weather and to attach a teams reputation to Mother Nature and a Municipality?
If you haven't done so already, you should try volunteering the hours needed to get your clubs tournament ready and hope that North Texas weather does not effect it like it did here and the Texans tournament a few months ago.
When this kind of thing happens, and it will again...No one feels any worse than the volunteers putting in the effort to meet your expectations.

Well at least they are applying lessons learned. lol. How about applying some refunds? I bet if the cancellation hit the clubs bottom line, they would figure out a way to finish it. As it stands and cancelation only cost the participants. In the end, not a bad deal they cancel the games, cut expenses, pocket the money.

I agree this was a very poor run tournament. We were playing at the The Five Star Complex and they didn't seem to have a clue of how the fields were layed out. We showed up for our Saturday morning game at 7:00am for our 7:30am game and of course it was dark and difficult to warm up because the lights were not on. Also, the way the fields were set-up didn't match the map they provided the link for on their web site. They moved all the teams around, some twice, so it made it difficult to have a proper warm up. We showed up in the afternoon for our second game, which was suppose to be on the same field as our first game and they moved us again to a different field, and then we were told to move to a third field. Then we had to wait on the refs to show up. I also had issues on how they set up the gold and silver brackets and how they put classic teams in with the Plano and Arlington teams together. Let's just say we won't be back next year.

posted that in another thread :I just emailed :aliceolali@hotmail.com. (which is the email listed under ayses contact info...). Pff it is funny, I have never complained to anybody in my life and had to begin with soccer ! I guess that's more important to me that verizon, ATT, mayor, cops, city services, lawyers, insurance companies and the very very long list of people who previously screwed me...I hope I am not starting some bad habits !