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TOURNAMENT RULES AND GUIDELINES
Tournament Organization – Managers and Coaches: Removed the requirement limiting a tournament team to a manager and one coach if the team had 12 or fewer eligible players in uniform at the game site. Any team, regardless of the number of players on the affidavit or at the game site, is now permitted to have one manager and up to two coaches (provided such manager and coaches are eligible).
Tournament Team Practice: Added wording allowing Tournament Teams to practice with other players in their own chartered Little League, another chartered Little League in their district, or another chartered Little League in a contiguous district.
Selection of Fields: Added wording requiring host leagues for the tournaments beyond the District level to have an approved plan under the “A Safety Awareness Program.”
Curfew: Changes were made to allow a later curfew for all divisions of play.
Rule 4 – Pitching Rules: Removed requirement for protests to be lodged before umpires leave the field and allows the Tournament Committee to take action even when there is no protest.
Rule 9 – Mandatory Play - 9-10 Year Old Division, 10-11 Year Old Division, Little League and Junior League: Remove requirement for protests to be lodged before umpires leave, and allows the Tournament Committee to take action even when there is no protest.
Rule 9 – Mandatory Play – 9-10 Year Old Division, 10-11 Year Old Division, Little League and Junior League: Changes were made to increase the mandatory playing time if a team has 12 or fewer eligible players in uniform at a game.
Rule 13 – Regulation Game: Removed wording requiring games to “revert” to the previous full inning’s score when – after the game reaches the point of a regulation game – the visiting team ties the game or takes the lead, and the game is suspended before the home team completes its at-bat and does not take the lead, and the game cannot be resumed on that same day.
Again, the complete wording of these Policies, Rules and Regulations will be provided in the coming weeks when the rule books are made available.