Surf Cup - Get Your Refund Now

More fun - Let's see if it spreads to more cities or the Greater Bay Area.

San Francisco's Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax announced Thursday a new travel order requiring a mandatory quarantine of 10 days for anyone traveling, moving or returning to the city from anywhere outside the Bay Area.

The order goes into effect on Friday and applies to both visitors and residents.

The order also requires anyone who comes to San Francisco to quarantine for 10 days if they spent any time outside the following nine Bay Area counties: San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Sonoma, Napa, Marin and Santa Cruz.
How is that tracked/enforced? Establishing an outer and inner cordon with traffic control points around the city? Sounds like cool training for the CA NG.
 
How is that tracked/enforced? Establishing an outer and inner cordon with traffic control points around the city? Sounds like cool training for the CA NG.
Some laws work only to the extent that people respect them. This is one of those.

I have no real desire to spread covid. When the county asked me to avoid travel, I did.

Do they also monitor your fasttrak pass and mail you a fine when your car crosses the bridge? Probably not, but I suppose they could.
 
I don't disagree that Surf would be well advised to cancel the tournament from an optics standpoint, I've been on record saying that for weeks. Unfortunately they've painted themselves into a corner with the remaining teams. They had a perfect opportunity a week and a half ago to cancel but instead they doubled down. However, comparing them to "big tobacco" or a "criminal enterprise", is not remotely factually comparable, and is a level of animosity that I can't comprehend based on the simple decision to legally and safely (based on their protocols and the actually history of recent tourneys) host a tournament. I guess calling them Nazi's is too ubiquitous. It seems there is something else underlying this venom. I know people that resent Surf's success...which I find odd that anyone resents somebody else's success.

Teams and clubs have made their own decisions to go. They should go, have a good time, be careful and take responsibility for their actions. Surf is not forcing anyone to go. Does Surf have influence? Sure, they're the 880lb gorilla that could sell ice to Eskimos, but Surf has given teams every opportunity to back out and receive a 97% refund. It seems you may be just looking for a scapegoat. I guess I'm just tired of this nanny culture where people hyperbolically criticize others for their educated choices when those choices have zero impact on them. I realize this behavior is likely born out of their own fears, but that still doesn't justify it. As my mom used to say "Mind your own beeswax".
I see we need a bit more explanation...

Analogy = a thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects. (It does not mean literally the same.)

My analogy = Big Tobacco and Surf. Both put out products that pose health risks to consumers. The vast majority of the medical community is saying, "don't do it." One is even doing it against current government mandates. Neither is illegal activity (as I've previously written so don't attribute "criminal enterprise" to me), but they are morally and ethically questionable activities. Having a right to do something is not always right (as i've also written).

It's an analogy, written to make people think. It's not venomous. Unfortunately, it caused your thinking to go to the Holocaust. Can't believe you referenced Nazi's in your post, even if it was a lame attempt at a dig. At best your reply is bad form and hypocritically insensitive, at worst...only you would know.
 
Some laws work only to the extent that people respect them. This is one of those.

I have no real desire to spread covid. When the county asked me to avoid travel, I did.

Do they also monitor your fasttrak pass and mail you a fine when your car crosses the bridge? Probably not, but I suppose they could.
I'm being facetious, these are mainly words being put to paper. I have friends in NY/NJ - they tried something similar coming into NYC. Checking temps and asking questions on bridges and subway stations coming into the city. Low compliance and low enforcement.
 
I see we need a bit more explanation...

Analogy = a thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects. (It does not mean literally the same.)

My analogy = Big Tobacco and Surf. Both put out products that pose health risks to consumers. The vast majority of the medical community is saying, "don't do it." One is even doing it against current government mandates. Neither is illegal activity (as I've previously written so don't attribute "criminal enterprise" to me), but they are morally and ethically questionable activities. Having a right to do something is not always right (as i've also written).

It's an analogy, written to make people think. It's not venomous. Unfortunately, it caused your thinking to go to the Holocaust. Can't believe you referenced Nazi's in your post, even if it was a lame attempt at a dig. At best your reply is bad form and hypocritically insensitive, at worst...only you would know.
I'll let the fact that you started a thread to bash another club, because you disagree with their decision that has zero impact on you, stand for itself...and I will let my responses stand for themselves. At least we can agree that it would have been wise for Surf to cancel the tournament.
 
I see we need a bit more explanation...

Analogy = a thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects. (It does not mean literally the same.)

My analogy = Big Tobacco and Surf. Both put out products that pose health risks to consumers. The vast majority of the medical community is saying, "don't do it." One is even doing it against current government mandates. Neither is illegal activity (as I've previously written so don't attribute "criminal enterprise" to me), but they are morally and ethically questionable activities. Having a right to do something is not always right (as i've also written).

It's an analogy, written to make people think. It's not venomous. Unfortunately, it caused your thinking to go to the Holocaust. Can't believe you referenced Nazi's in your post, even if it was a lame attempt at a dig. At best your reply is bad form and hypocritically insensitive, at worst...only you would know.

Oh Canada = Absolute Bafoonery. There's another analogy for you to ponder.
 
OMG. It’s a conspiracy to prevent children from playing kiddie soccer. What better way to lure them into a tunnel under a DC parlor. I hear there is some guy who was on a swift boat in Viet Nam who knows all about it.

Check out how many people are dying of heartburn and motorcycle accidents. A lot. Like a lot a lot.

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Who said we stopped playing soccer. I have a front row seat for you for this weekends games. Pick a day.
 
bafoonery
(n) foolishness or nonsense that results from an idiot.

Nah, I think I got it just right
Urban dictionary definition?

We've had to outlaw urban dictionary from our scrabble games. It is formatted like a dictionary, but it is not as reliable.

Either way, you're still just insulting anyone who disagrees with you about the relative value of soccer tournaments and public health.

Not a good look for Surf.
 
What I truthfully don’t get is why there are so many on here who have made it 1000% clear they have no interest in and are not going to Surf, but yet they’re still on this thread incessantly obsessing about Surf. Have they nothing better to do? It’s pathetic. Move on. Even the person that started this thread about getting refunds for Surf is not going to Surf.
 
Uh oh-- the number of teams on the (still not posted) youngers schedule is dropping:


168 teams total as of right now, that number was double yesterday.

165 teams.

Just an FYI for everyone, whenever a team drops out, an entire bracket needs to be rescheduled. This is, as you can imagine, not the easiest thing in the world, especially when you get into odd numbers of teams and you need to start doing cross-bracket scheduling. I wonder how many 1-0 forfeits we'll see.

I hope the 2000 players and their families stay safe and virus-free.
 
Urban dictionary definition?

We've had to outlaw urban dictionary from our scrabble games. It is formatted like a dictionary, but it is not as reliable.

Either way, you're still just insulting anyone who disagrees with you about the relative value of soccer tournaments and public health.

Not a good look for Surf.

The same analogy applies to several others here too. As some seem to have made it their life mission to defame a club and tournament. Pathetic is an understatement.
 
The same analogy applies to several others here too. As some seem to have made it their life mission to defame a club and tournament. Pathetic is an understatement.
You’re not doing much to refute my point that you seem to be here to insult people.
 
You’re not doing much to refute my point that you seem to be here to insult people.

Just expressing my opinion if it bothers you, then perhaps you should call a sheep meeting and get your little group to stop defaming a club and tournament that they have no vested interest in. No kids playing, no direct ties to the organization. No first hand knowledge of anything.
 
The same analogy applies to several others here too. As some seem to have made it their life mission to defame a club and tournament. Pathetic is an understatement.
Some of this is likely media overplay but you get the gist of the drama that's going to play out in your state over the next few weeks. Is it too late for a refund?

 
No true scotsman, etc etc etc... "money demands", what a shitty fucking line that is. This is why people generally dislike Surf.

What a rude and uneducated response..... you seem to be here to play keyboard warrior and throw insults rather than talk soccer......I guess you have an axe to grind with Surf and youth soccer in general that makes balanced soccer discourse impossible, shame.
 
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