Pregame meeting

[Steve M]

A pre-tournament meeting with the uic, td, and each team's head coach is very helpful in preventing this too - maybe even more so. I like to do this with each of the tournamets that I uic. Another meeting, 45 minutes before the first game, between the umps and the uic is a must. These are the meetings where we cover the tournament's "special" rules - how we're going to rule on them, time limits, ground rules, and special stuff that should be gone over at each pre-game meeting at home, and so on. That tournament you were at, Dakota, got ugly because (I suspect) that poor tournament administration was shown.