RSC fields are Playable.
Post for the weekend of May 15-16.
BRCL -- Rainout/Bad Weather Game Reschedule Procedure
Automatic League Approval- Games cancelled by the field coordinator (or a club official acting as the field coordinator) due to rain or other unplayable field conditions are automatically approved for reschedule by the league. No request to the league for a reschedule is necessary. The home team’s field coordinator needs to make their field closure decision by 9:00am on game day.
- The Home Team’s Field Coordinator (or designated club official) is responsible for notifying the assignor by 10:00am of games cancelled due to weather or unplayable field conditions. The assignor needs to know the field(s) and time(s).
- The Home Team is responsible for notifying the visiting team by 10:00am that the game is cancelled.
- Email the League Administrator (BRCLsoccer@cox.net) by Monday that the game was cancelled. Your email is to include the game number, game date, time and field. If all of a club’s games are cancelled due to weather, one email from a club official to BRCL Administrator stating the cancellation will suffice.
- The Home Team contacts the Visiting Team about reschedule dates and then checks field availability with your club. The field link in your team’s division schedule provides a field schedule. Teams must honor the other team’s no play dates. Team no play dates are published on BRCL’s website (www.brclsoccer.org) and click on the “Season Schedules ” button.
- Within 9 calendar days of the cancelled game, the Home Team emails BRCL Administrator (BRCLsoccer@cox.net): (1) your division name (2) each team’s name as it appears on the online schedule including gender (3) the new game date, time and field. When BRCL’s Administrator updates the online schedule, each team’s contacts, the home team field coordinator and assignor are notified via email of the rescheduled game information.
BRCL -- Inclement Weather Procedure
In case of inclement weather, the home team is responsible for notifying the visiting team and referee assignor if the match needs to be cancelled. Proper protocal and common courtesy require that the change in schedule be worked out with the opposing team first, before the assignor is notified, particularly if the opposing team is traveling in from out of town. And, notification has to happen early enough so that traveling families and coaching staffs will not be unduly inconvenienced.
Because Mother Nature is sometimes fickle and inclement weather does not always arrive properly announced, we usually have a choice of either 1) cancel the match first thing in the morning so everyone who needs to be notified in time can be, or 2) wait and let the referee decide once everyone has arrived at the pitch (as is usually done with baseball during the summer months).
If early notification of cancellation cannot be accomplished, then both teams are obligated to report to the pitch as scheduled, ready to play. If the visiting team just assumes that the match is cancelled and does not show, then it is subject to forfeit; if the home team fails to properly notify the necessary parties in advance and does not show, then it is subject to forfeit. If both teams report to the pitch as scheduled and then the referee calls the match due to inclement playing conditions, then neither team is subject to forfeit.
If one team forfeits, then it is subject to fees being charged against its performance bond and the opposing team is awarded a win for the match.
