-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 for How to Register a Team.
And check out this brief video 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 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.
Depending on the league, we post a week by week schedule for the first 2 weeks. That allows us to accept late registrants, adjust for registration cancellations, 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 games.
Well, ( spoiler alert) it will rain. And usually 20 minutes before game time. :) We we will email and text you as soon as we know we will be cancelling - often after 4pm on game day, once the City has made their Code Red decision to close the fields or not.
But it varies. Sometimes the City posts a Code Yellow and we have to drive out to the fields to evaluate ourselves. Other times, if it's still raining, and it's not obviously a rainout we won't know until it stops. As soon as we know, we'll immediately let you all know, so please wait to hear from us rather than calling or emailing to ask if we're playing.
How do we decide? Many factors go into our canceling games but forecast is usually not one of them. 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 just 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 take lightly and we will always try to get the games in if we can, but 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 -Memorial Day Weekend -4th of July -Labor Day Weekend -Thanksgiving Weekend (Wednesday-Sunday) -Christmas Eve & Christmas Day
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We DO play games on the following Holidays: -Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend (including Monday) -Valentine's Day -St. Patrick's Day -Mother's Day -Father's Day -Halloween -Veteran's Day (depending on facilities availability) -Any Holiday not listed in the previous section above 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 email the league office at trisports@trisportsnc.com prior to the Week 2 games. Once the full season schedule is published, requests may not be honored.
Ask your players at the end of each game if they will be there next game. Or you can send a reminder email 3 days prior to the game asking people whether they can make it. This will give you enough time to find a substitute if it looks like your team is going to be short a few players. And often times, if you let us know how many players/genders you are short, we can get you subs. If your team is going to forfeit, you must e-mail the league office asap, preferably 24 hours in advance or Friday at noon for weekend games, so we can get word out to your opponents. 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.
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. 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.