State Cup 2019 Rainout?(Galway Downs)

So frustrating...our wonderful trip to Lancaster this weekend now has to be pushed back to the President's day weekend. Which means our hotel has to move all our reservations. Don't even get me started on what a cluster it was just trying to get reservations for the original dates. While we were fortunate to get all rooms at the same hotel, many teams weren't. Now we have to wait for other teams to cancel to if their games were rescheduled to another weekend as well. Cal South really messed up by not even telling the local hotels about the tournament schedules so they could plan on the cluster that came their way - every team manager had to call hotels directly and they were not prepared.
 
There is rain in the forecast, but its currently listed as "light." That shouldn't impact the facilities, especially because they will have a few days to dry out. If anything, the fields should all be beautiful this weekend, especially those that overseeded with a cool season grass (not Galway).
 
Keepers_Keeper said:
So frustrating...our wonderful trip to Lancaster this weekend now has to be pushed back to the President's day weekend. Which means our hotel has to move all our reservations. Don't even get me started on what a cluster it was just trying to get reservations for the original dates. While we were fortunate to get all rooms at the same hotel, many teams weren't. Now we have to wait for other teams to cancel to if their games were rescheduled to another weekend as well. Cal South really messed up by not even telling the local hotels about the tournament schedules so they could plan on the cluster that came their way - every team manager had to call hotels directly and they were not prepared.
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It is probably not fair to blame Cal South. At the San Bernardino Soccer Complex, we notify our hotel partners of our schedule so they can be prepared. Last week we were in constant phone and email contact with all the hotels in our area, keeping them up to date of the rain situation and likelihood of cancellation. We also let all the hoteliers know that Cal South posts their schedule and "Venue" utilization, so any hotel can simply check the Cal South website and see what is coming in the near future.
 
timbuck said:
Cal-South has a lot of blame on a lot of things. I'm not sure "calling all of the hotels in Lancaster to tell them it's raining" should be on their priority list.
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The post wasn't meant to blame cal south, only to vent a bit about having to deal with adjusting hotel and travel accommodations. BTW, If you are going to quote, then quote directly. I didn't say ""calling all of the hotels in Lancaster to tell them it's raining". I said that the hotels (inferred Lancaster as I referenced it in the post) were not informed of the upcoming tournament dates, which is why they didn't expect to be inundated with direct calls from team managers like me to request room blocks. If the San Bernardino complex notified their hotel partners of the upcoming tournament - great. Based on my conversations with at least 3 different hotels in Palmdale and Lancaster, they were not as aware.
 
G05 National Cup schedule has been revised to the following weekend starting Mar 2nd. Looks like the rest of the National Cup schedule is out also.
 
Keepers_Keeper said:
The post wasn't meant to blame cal south, only to vent a bit about having to deal with adjusting hotel and travel accommodations. BTW, If you are going to quote, then quote directly. I didn't say ""calling all of the hotels in Lancaster to tell them it's raining". I said that the hotels (inferred Lancaster as I referenced it in the post) were not informed of the upcoming tournament dates, which is why they didn't expect to be inundated with direct calls from team managers like me to request room blocks. If the San Bernardino complex notified their hotel partners of the upcoming tournament - great. Based on my conversations with at least 3 different hotels in Palmdale and Lancaster, they were not as aware.
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Quotation marks have been removed from my response.
 
Does this push everything back? National Cup olders still says April 6th start date. Wondering if we should expect that to change now.
 
Aaaaaand it looks like rain again this weekend. Do we think they will still play this weekend? These rainouts are killing our family schedule.
 
The amount of rain in the forecast for Southern California is not significant, it should have no impact on State Cup for all of the private facilities
 
Easter is pretty late into April this year (April 21). Can anyone say off the top of their heads if in previous years have State Cup/National Cup games been scheduled Easter weekend?
 
BananaKick said:
I wonder how it looks for Silverlakes this weekend. Saturday looks good as of 10:00am today but looks like 70% rain on Sunday
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from CalSouth website : " WEATHER . . (Updated: Friday Feb 8th @ 1:00PM). All scheduled venues are OPEN and ready for play Feb 9-10. Games will play in the rain until the fields are pulled by the venue owners."

should be a full weekend of games
 
Does anyone know if Lancaster shut their fields after the 9am games? I'm not seeing updated scores for any of the 10:50 games and beyond.
 
jrcaesar said:
Good weekend in Del Mar. A pleasure to watch referees fully committed to the match, getting into the right positions and communicating with the players.
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Not so much at Galloway downs . Some refs seemed to need some help and guidance on positioning not once but twice on a 7v7 game being smack in the middle of the 18 box during action and with her body blocking a ball being cleared only to have it drop right in front of other team player to score what happened to being the deciding goal.
 
Coach_JimmyZ said:
from CalSouth website : " WEATHER . . (Updated: Friday Feb 8th @ 1:00PM). All scheduled venues are OPEN and ready for play Feb 9-10. Games will play in the rain until the fields are pulled by the venue owners."

should be a full weekend of games
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How does it look for this weekend at Silverlakes 2/16-17 with the rain and all. if we have anymore delays, the Finals could be postponed to March 2-3 any thoughts?
 
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