January 15, 2021
Dear Tournament Directors:
This is a reminder that the tournament sanctioning deadline for 2021 tournaments is February 1, 2021. Beginning on February 1, a $500 late fee will be added on to the $350 sanctioning application.
As some of you may know, MSYSA is not offering official tournament sanctioning yet. However, tournaments are able to submit all required materials for preliminary sanctioning, and they are being reviewed in anticipation that Michigan will allow for contact sports to be played in the near future. When Michigan is permitted to resume organized (contact) soccer, I will directly reach out to each tournament that has been given preliminary sanctioning and provide the documents necessary to make the sanctioning official.
MSYSA recognizes the challenges ahead hosting a tournament with COVID-19 lingering, so we worked with our team at the University of Michigan School of Public Health (UMSPH) to create a COVID-19 Tournament Best Practices document to help with your event planning. This document can also be viewed on our tournament sanctioning page on our website.
In an effort to reduce contact at tournaments, MSYSA encourages you to consider "touch-less and paperless” registration with electronic documents partner SportsForms. Even Tournament Liability Waivers can now be signed and collected electronically with SportsForms. To find out more about the SportsForms Touch-less Tournament Electronic Documents Service (TTEDS), please visit https://www.sportsforms.club/tournament-faq.html.
Sincerely,
Ryan Theisen
Operations Coordinator
