Teams to be Frozen Starting March 27th

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On Friday, March 27th, Nations Baseball will begin freezing rosters beginning with all NCI tournaments in February and continuing through the month of March. Over the next 7-10 days, tournaments will be processed in sequential order by date so that by the April 4-5 weekend, Nations Baseball will be freezing teams from that weekend and continue weekly through the rest of the season. In an effort to assure that the program was operating as intended, they delayed the process until now.

Players can only be frozen on one roster per age division and so during this process, players on frozen rosters will be removed from other teams they may appear on in the same age. This weekend all tournament directors are pulling hardcopy rosters, and teams will be able to play through the weekend based on the rosters that are pulled on Thursday evening as rosters may change during the weekend due to the roster freezing.

All berths earned in February and March are optional and managers will have the option of declining those berths so that they are not frozen. This option will be indicated on each team’s team admin page on the website.

Managers are strongly encouraged to view your team admin site 2-3 times daily for the next 7-10 days so that you can see if your team is frozen and how your roster may have been affected because players that were on your roster were frozen on other teams. Begin now to make arrangements for roster deletions or additions based on what might occur to some players on your roster. Managers have the ability to drop unlimited players after having been frozen, but you can only add three and your roster adds need to be used wisely.

Upon being frozen, teams will then have the ability to sign up for either the South Zone (State) tournament or the Nations National Championship they have qualified for. The links to registration for these tournaments will appear on the team admin page. If teams turn down a passed down berth, the links for registration to the Zone and National Tournaments will go away. If a team signs up for a Zone or National Tournament, then the berth is no longer able to be declined.