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Sunday, February 1, 2009

Thank You for your patronage

Near the first of the year, I emailed the coaches that attended last year about the difficulty of getting sanctioned by WSYSA. WSYSA wanted the tournament to get rid of the hay bales for Surviror Sunday as our unique way of settling ties on Sunday. You guys wrote in and flooded the WSYSA email box with responses, enough that District 6 called me at home to call off the bombardment of responses. Some of you CC'd me and I appreciate the overwhelming response that you guys did. It is you guys that get what this tournament is all about. The primary focus of this tournament and the reason this tournament exists was to have kids, parents, and coaches drive home and say "I had a good time" regardless to wins and losses. It is this response that makes me proud because you guys get it. The problem is the state doesn't get it.

We lost the battle of the hay bales and so the rules will be modifiyied to reflect this. We are still not sanctioned as of now with WSYSA. They at first gave me three things to fix to be sanctioned, one of which was the hay bales and the other two were clerical issues. I resubmitted those three corrections and now they have come back with seven additional modifications that needs to be fixed. I guess this is punishment for being vocal about the unnessecery changes that needs to fixed IAW FIFA rules. I seriously doubt that FIFA people (wherever they are) really care about a silly tournament in Yakima, Washington.

Thank you all that wrote in to the state but I really want to thank you for making the Yak Attack apart of your summer tournament season.

Gregg and Jane

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SURVIVOR SUNDAY

Survivor Sunday is a special feature that this tournament offers that no other tournament has. All teams, U-11 and above, play three games on Saturday. Points are tallied and each team in the age bracket is awarded a seed number at the end of the day. Sunday play is based on seeding where play is similar to the NCAA basketball tournament. All teams play on Sunday. Survivor Sunday simply means if you win, you play again. If you lose, your tournament play ends. Before each game, we play the Survivor theme song then sound the buzzer and drop the ball. Of course, the higher the seed, the easier the path. Survivor Sunday is designed to play every other half hour which depending on the size of the bracket, you could end up playing an additional four games on Sunday. If a game ends in a tie on Survivor Sunday, both teams go to Tribal Council where a shootout Yak Attack style occurs; a shootout against my hay bale goalie.

CODE FOUR UNIFORM CONTEST

Once again, Code Four Athletic Apparel Company is sponsoring a uniform contest. This event is one of the trademarks of the Yak Attack. Teams are encouraged to make their own uniforms for this event and many teams come to the event with some awesome looking and funny looking uniforms. We parade all the teams across the main stage and introduce each team to the crowd. Uniforms have to in good taste and three winners are awarded; Boys, Girls, and Grand Champion. Each winning team wins a $200.00 gift certificate from Code Four Athletic Apparel Co. Contest starts at 12:45 on Saturday.

YAK ATTACK ~~FOOD~~ SOUP DRIVE

Another unique feature of the Yak Attack is our Northwest Harvest Food Drive. In years past we have had a food drive where teams bring in food and win a ride a limousine. The past two years we have seen food donations plummet which might be caused by the economy, we don't know. This year we will be doing it a little different. We are asking each participant to bring 1 can of soup to the tournament. This has the potential of gathering 1800 cans of soup which the food bank would be gratefull.