Goals For Gianna 3v3 Soccer Classic Fun-damentals

Hello Everybody,

A couple of things:

Waivers
Great job on the online waivers. Please encourage your parents to find their email and sign their waivers.

Here is a list of team's with multiple waivers unsigned. If you are on this list and don't plan to have your players sign online (likely just that you need to enter a parent email address on your roster) then your entire team and guardians will need to come to the welcome tent to check in and sign. If we don't signed waivers before the first game, those players and or teams are ineligible to play and will result in a forfeit.

Blue Moose, 2012 BSC Purple, Hussars United, Pink Fluffy Unicorns, United, Donuts FC, Blondies Beef FC, FC Owls, Evo.

Schedules
We have had a lot of parents reaching out asking about schedules. Please share the schedule with your teams and also encourage them to download the 3v3 Live app for live scoring updates all day tomorrow.

https://soccer.exposureevents.com/241956/goals-for-gianna-3v3-soccer-classic/schedule

Hello,

The excitement is building! Fields were freshly cut and painted today. The Polo Farm is an amazing setting for this wonderful event. We can't wait to share it all with you!

A couple of Updates

Schedules are Final
Thank you for your patience while we worked through some divison and scheduling changes.

They are now final as we prepare all the game day logistics.

Please note, there were several division and schedule revisions that happened since the schedule was published on Tuesday. Please make sure to double check your field and game times. Failure to be at the correct field at the assigned start time will result in forfeiture.

3v3 Live App
If you have not yet, please download the 3v3 Live App. This is the best way to stay updated on scoring, standings and bracketing throughout the day. Encourage your parents to do so also!

Event Layout
We have attached the event layout for your information. One note, we encourage all those bringing 10x10 tents to set up in "Tent Alley" in front of the stage.

Please pay attention to signs. The main polo field, stables and farmhouse are strictly off limits for our event.

Let's have a great day of soccer and community!

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Hello,

From all of us at Goals for Gianna, thank you so much for your participation.

Registration closes in a few hours! Once that happens we will begin the process of building divisions, brackets and our schedule. Here's a few things to expect.

Spirit

What sets Goals for Gianna apart from most soccer tournaments is the spirit of the event. Remember, we are coming together as a soccer loving community to honor the life of Gianna and raise money for local charity.

That doesn't mean the soccer won't be competitive. It will, just like Gianna would have wanted!

But like Gianna, the spirit of the event is about fun and bringing people together. We have a zero tolerance policy for any confrontation between players, coaches, parents or refs. Any individual found to violate the spirit of our event will result in the ejection of the individual's entire associated team from the event.

So many people said that last year's event was the best soccer tournament they had ever been too. "The vibe was great." It certainly was, let's all do our part to keep it that way!

Divisions

This is the most challenging part of organizing a tournament. In a perfect world, we'd have 5-8 teams sign up at every age group. This is not a perfect world.

Some groups have way more teams than that. Some have less. We are going to do our absolute best given the information we received to balance the groups to create competitive matches (and crown as many champions as we can). It won't be perfect, but please keep in mind the spirit of the event and give us some grace!

With that said, we are going to distribute a divisional draft for review. What we are looking for is any major misses on our part.

Next Steps

Monday-Finalize Divisions
Tuesday-Distribute First Division Draft
Friday-Schedule is posted

Registration

You likely received a roster link email (or two) from 3v3 Live tonight. Online waivers are really handy. Many of you have already completed your waivers and we thank you.

If you have completed your waivers online all you need to do is have one representative from your team stop by the registration tent and check in.

If you haven't completed your waivers online then you will need your entire team AND a parent/guardian of each child to come to the registration tent Saturday morning to manually fill them out.

Here is a current list of teams that have not completed any waivers as of today:

2012 BSC Purple, Ballers FC, Blue Moose Soccer Academy, Gianna's Angels, Hot Shots, Hussars United, MMJ FC, Sons of Pitches, Team TY.

Thank you again and here's to an exciting week!