Quote: MPSC knew well before the first kick off that the tournament wasn't going to be completed. The fields were closed almost all week the week before> They chose to start a tournament that they knew they couldn't complete so that they could keep the money.
If player safety was really an issue in their decision to stop the tournament then they never would have started it. There was not a heavy downpour after the tournament started on Saturday. That is why people are upset. If the fields were too bad to play on at 1:30 that afternoon then they were too bad to play on at 7:30 that morning. MPSC knew that they wouldn't complete the tournament and wanted to protect the field. That is why they started off with abbreviated games- so they could protect the fields and keep the money.
Okay...your argument is full of holes...
I'm not sure where you were, but there was a downpour Saturday afternoon (in the Patriot's Point/Town Hall fields area) after our first match was completed; easily rained enough to add another inch to fields that already had water up to my ankles.
And what do you think deems fields unplayable? Your argument states that if the fields were bad at 1:30, then they were just as bad at 7:30 that morning. When you already have standing water on the fields, as matches are played the fields get worse and worse. Thus, the fields were NOT the same between 7:30 and 1:30--they were playable (by the standards of the powers that be) at 7:30 that morning and NOT playable (by the standards of the same people) at 1:30 on that same afternoon. Get over it.
And did you ever think abbreviating games to start off with could have been a measure taken (due to the threat of bad weather) to ensure that all teams were able to participate at all on Saturday?
