Area 8A Fall Tournament

2024 Grant 4v4 Tournament

Grant 4v4 Tournament:
Friday October 18th & Saturday October 19th

Registration Fee: $30 per player registered ($27.25 + $2.75 processing fee)

Player-Led Teams: This tournament is all about player leadership and initiative. Players are encouraged to form their own teams and come up with a creative team name as well as costume. This approach helps build teamwork and gives players a chance to take charge. Teams need to have a minimum of 3 players and a maximum of 5 players.

Team Parent Role: Each team needs to have a designated Team Parent. This is essential and involves; helping ensure the players arrive at their fields on time and assisting with player substitutions during games. Please note that Team Parents must be background checked volunteers to ensure the safety and well-being of all participants.

Who Can Register:
AYSO-Area 8/A registered players. Player must have played on a house team during regular MY 2023-2024 season.
Roster must be signed by your Regional Commissioner.
All players must be from the same Region.
Players must be at least U-10 division or older. No U-8 players.
Teams from other Areas may be accepted to fill brackets.

Format: Round-Robin type format with Semi-Final and Championship games for divisions with more than one bracket.

Divisions:
U-10 Boys and Girls, 4 v 4, maximum 5 players on roster.
U-12 Boys and Girls, 4 v 4, maximum 5 players on roster.
U-14 Coed 4 v 4, maximum 5 players on roster.
U-19 Coed, 4 v 4, maximum 5 players on roster. (Boys currently playing MHSAA need to be registered for Spring 202 to be eligible)

Age Cut-off Date: The cut-off date for each division will be the same as AYSO for the season immediately preceding the tournament.

Minimum Games: Each team will play a minimum of three games. All games will be 20 minutes long with one break at the half for substitution.

Awards: Awards will be given to the top four teams from each division. There will also be awards for the best costume for each division.

Important Documents

2024 4v4 packet

4v4 Tournamnet Website

Tournament Shirt Pre-Sale

Pre-order Shirts: Pre-order for tournament short sleeve t-shirt, long sleeve, and hoodies will be available. Short Sleeve T-shirt price $15. Long sleeve price $20. Hooded sweatshirt $30. Long sleeves and hoodies will be pre-order ONLY. Tournamnet will have limited quantity and sizes of short sleeve t-shirts.

This year Grant will have a Most Creative Uniform Contest. Teams can come up with their own uniform design, and are not required to wear their regular season AYSO uniform. Designs must still comply with AYSO rules for safety, so they must not include anything hard (clips, rhinestones, belt buckles, jewelry, etc.). Players on each team need to match each other to identify them as being on the same team. Soft hats, gloves, and pants are allowed.

Shin guards and socks are still required.

The referees will vote on the uniform designs, and select a boys team and a girls team to win. There will not be winners for each age division.

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REFEREE SCHEDULE & INFO

REFEREES!

Let’s make sure every game is covered with a Referee, the games start on time, and it’s a good playing experience for the kids. As noted below, stop by the Referee tent often as the schedule may change.

A few notes:

Stop by the tent and get your Tournament t-shirt. They’re cool.
Pick up your meal card and enjoy the food.
Start games on time and keep them to schedule. In fact, start them early and end them early. If we get behind, there are built-in gaps to catch up, but it can cause a disaster when we have some many teams and Referees moving from field to field on tight timing.
Come by the Referee tent early and often. The Referee plan will be plotted on a large paper. Confirm that you are doing your games by coloring in your name with a yellow highlighter. That way we know it’s covered. If you cannot do a game, tell one of us so we can white-out your name and look for a replacement.
Give game cards, clearly noted with the winning and losing team and score, to the winning coach after the game. Writing something like “W 3-2” on one card and “L 2-3” on the other helps.
Read the 4v4 Rules ahead of time (they're in the tournament information download to the left). Watch some games, if possible, before you Referee. Attend the 8:00 rules review if you can. ASK if you need some clarification.
This tournament is a blast. It’s good-natured and relaxed. So, have fun!