-Attend your games each week; missing a game is okay, if you told the team not to expect you. -Ensure all of your players have team shirts and have agreed to the waiver. -Make sure your team members are wearing their team shirts each week. -Manage aspects of your team. Includes (at a minimum) making a lineup, ensuring that you have proper number and ratio (M/F) of players on the field; ideally, prior to arriving at the field. -Ensure that everyone playing on your team is actually on your official team roster, this includes subs who must be registered. -YOU, as Captain, communicate with referees when your team has a question. Do not let your players address the refs; especially if they are emotional. -Rally your team to come out to our post-game sponsor bar to participate in the post-game socials. -Be knowledgeable about and follow all the rules for each sport you're a team captain for. -Have a great time! Let your teammates see you having fun! Engage everyone on your team.

Check out this brief video f(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_uvHvepbrq-VEwhORjkskDIvNlDx0sUS/view?usp=sharing)or How to Register a Team. And check out this brief video (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wKpBZcGDkmmbyjblUZYgHyuoLWG320xU/view?usp=sharing)to see How to Invite Players to Your Team and Manage Your Team.

No. We understand that it takes time to put together your roster and can be difficult to get up with players and get their portion of the teams fees, etc. So we've moved to a new registration process that will offer captains (and participants) a quick and easy way to get signed up for sports. Captains can register a team and then have the option of paying for the team in full -or- the captain can invite their players to join, assign them dues to pay, and the team members will receive an email letting them know they can log on and make their portion of the team payment. If your team has a sponsor that will be covering your team fee, you can register as a sponsored team by paying a $100 deposit to hold your spot, and once we receive your sponsor's check, we will refund your deposit. The balance of the team fee is due prior to the 1st night of league play. In most cases, the balance must be paid before your team will be placed on the schedule.

The 1st week schedule usually comes about 4 days prior to the 1st night of play. This is because it takes a little bit to organize everything once the registration deadline closes. Your game start time will fall between 6pm and 9:15pm every night of play. Some sports begin earlier than others based on venue availability, demand, and other factors. Depending on the league, we post a week by week schedule for the first 2-3 weeks. That allows us to accept late registrants, adjust for registration cancellations, assess the level of play from each team so we can create/adjust divisions to get parity, as well as gives captains time to organize any specific scheduling requests they might have. It also allows us to add/drop a team to/from the league without having to release an updated schedule. We always have a full season schedule out to the leagues by week 3-4 of the league. Any weather cancellations in weeks 1-3 may cause delays in getting a full season schedule out because we need to see the results data to ensure teams are playing at the appropriate level. Our goal is to limit blowout wins and losses whenever possible.

Well, ( spoiler alert) it will rain. And usually 20 minutes before game time because, it's Raleigh and the weather is unpredictable. :) We we will email and text all league participants as soon as we know if we will be cancelling or not - often after 4pm on game day because the City has until 4-5pm to close fields. If they leave fields open, it is up to us to decide whether or not we can play based on the field conditions and present and future weather forecasts. We inspect fields often when the weather is questionable. We also monitor lightning since it is also. potential hazard. Do I need to do anything? It's 3pm and I am not sure if we are playing. If you have not heard from us, assume that games are still on. Emailing or calling us won't change that fact so please wait for us to make an official call. We get hundreds of emails per day because we often have over 3000 individual players playing per week. Emails about weather will go unanswered if more urgent emails need to be addressed. We're not trying to ignore you; we have a policy and a protocol in place already. How do we decide? Many factors go into our canceling games but a forecast only plays a small part In that. Sometimes we get torrential rain in one part of town and not a drop in other parts of town. Other things like: How much rain have we had lately? What temperatures are we experiencing/how fast can the fields dry? Sometimes that's an hour and sometimes it'll take several days. If you look out your window and see even a small puddle in the street, the fields probably aren't dry. Sometimes it's the end of the year and the fields are about to close for months, so we may play on a really cold date in Fall that, were it Summer, we wouldn't. Sometimes if we don't finish that last game of the night, it'll delay the end of the season by 1-2 weeks, so we may try to push through. Certain sports have different thresholds for canceling. Bare feet in beach volleyball and aluminum softball bats don't react well to colder temps, while football is usually on, regardless of the temperature. So, a lot goes into these decisions. Please bear in mind that we understand you all want to play your games, and we want you to play your games. Canceling isn't something we ever want to do and we always try to get the games in if we can. However, if it's in the best interest of the league to cancel - all factors considered- we will have to do that. Thank you for your understanding.

HOLIDAY GAME POLICYWe DO NOT play on the following Holidays: -New Year's Day/New Year's Eve -Easter Sunday (unless games are after 4pm) -Memorial Day Weekend -4th of July -Labor Day Weekend -Thanksgiving Weekend (Wednesday-Sunday) -Christmas Eve & Christmas Day ​ We DO play games on the following Holidays: -Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend (including Monday) -President's Day Weekend (including Monday) -Valentine's Day -St. Patrick's Day -Mother's Day (usually after 4pm) -Father's Day (usually after 4pm) -Halloween -Veteran's Day (depending on facilities availability) -Any Holiday not listed in the previous section above -We try not to schedule playoff games over the above Holiday weekends but regular season games are always fair game HOLIDAY BYE REQUESTS - We are happy to do our best to accommodate all schedule requests regarding bye weeks. If your team has a specific request for a bye week, Captains should receive a scheduling request sheet link from their League Director prior to the start of league play. Requests are not guaranteed but we will do our best to accommodate. Once the full season schedule is published, requests may not be honored.

-Once a player is on the roster, they are considered a permanent player. Due to insurance and other considerations, TRI SPORTS does not allow you to substitute another player in for one not participating. -You can always add an additional player to the roster by having them register.

Ask your players at the end of each game if they will be there next game. Have them use the RSVP tool on their dashboard while logged into our site. Or you can send a reminder email 3 days prior to the game asking people whether they can make it. This should give you and your teammates enough time to find a substitute if it looks like your team is going to be short a few players. If you don't have the first game of the night, just ask some players to play again when their game ends. If your team is woefully short-handed on game day you must e-mail the league office (trisports@trisportsnc.com)and your League Director asap, at least 4 hours in advance or Friday at noon for weekend games, so we can triage the situation. A "short-handed" email looks like this: Subject: Team X Co-Ed Football Monday - Short 2 Girls and 2 Guys For 6:30pm Game Tonight Body: Can you help us get subs for this game or do we need to forfeit? Please advise on next steps. Nobody wants to get stood up and waste their time & gas for a no-show opponent; please do not ever no-show. Even if you just bring the players you have, we can get a scrimmage going and have some fun. We do have penalties for forfeits so this is a last resort: • 1st forfeit results in a loss and a warning • Late notice (less than 4 hours) or no-show results in a $50 dollar fine that goes to your opponent and/or possible forfeiture of playoff spot • 2 forfeits results in playoff removal • 3 forfeits results in removal from the season Bottom line: Have players RSVP early and communicate early so everyone plays.

The number of players for a team varies from sport to sport. If you want to form a team but need an extra player or two, you can contact us after you register and we'll do our best to get you any free agents Indys that may be available. But, please bear in mind, we have an obligation to fill out our Indy teams first, so there may not be any players available.

Post a Facebook or X or Insta status saying that you need a few extra people for your team. Post to our facebook groups (by sport) (https://www.facebook.com/TRISPORTSNC/groups)that you are looking for more people to join your team. These are public facing and a great resource. Ask everyone else on your team to do the same, and you'll be surprised by how many people decide to help out. You can also send an email out to co-workers asking if any of them, or their friends, would be interested in joining. If you want to form a team but need an extra player or two, you can contact us after you register and we'll do our best to get you any free agents Indys that may be available. But, please bear in mind, we have an obligation to fill out our Indy teams first, so there may not be any players available.

-We recommend you do not allow anyone to play until they pay their dues online or to you directly. Anyone who does not at least accept the invitation to play and sign our waiver in the process, cannot play. This is the bare minimum requirement to stepping on the field. -Send friendly reminder emails every few days to ensure prompt payment. -In all sports other than Kickball, which is paid individually, captains are responsible for paying excess balances once the payment deadline hits. If you struggle to get people to pay, consider registering as an indy and inviting players to join your small group. That small group may end up being a full team or we will subsidize your roster with other indy players to create a full team.

-Once a player is on the roster, they are considered a permanent player. Due to insurance and other considerations, TRI SPORTS does not allow you to substitute another player in for one not participating. -You can always add an additional player to the roster by having them register.