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Most teams have been able to follow the registration procedure and get their team registered and on the schedule for the first night. Thanks to those teams and their captains.

About 10% are finding varying reasons for not completing the process. I have found in the past that teams that keep delaying registration, payments and getting AVPNext #s are the teams that either drop out or even do not show up the first night, or drop out after a week or two and also have high forfeit rates. No one likes it when you come ready to play and the teams you are scheduled to play do not show up.

So EEVB has instituted a clear step by step registration procedure this year and it is working great. The procedure is online at www.eevb.net/LeagueRegister.htm.  At Long Beach almost every team showed up and was able to go straight to their court to get started. The only teams that were supposed to show up and did not did so because the weather was questionable.

Of the teams that had pre-registered and did not pay or send in a roster and whom we left off the schedule, 75% of them did not show up, These teams would have messed up the schedule for  teams that had followed the procedure.

Therefore we will continue to follow the simple registration procedure. If your team is not on the schedule you need to finish the procedure which is very simple:

1.       Send in a roster

2.       Pay the entry fee

3.       Send in the AVPNext #s

Any team not on the schedule this week will have to send in a roster and show an effort to get most of the AVPNext #s. We will accept payment on the beach as long as it is a check or money order which you place in an envelope, write your name on the front and hand to us at check in. No team will be on the schedule the 2^nd week that does not have all AVPNext #s and payments finished.

The teams that have done everything correctly will be able to come to the beach and go straight to their court to start playing. Teams that are not finished can finish at the beach as described above and then will be assigned to courts. So you will be able to play but your start time/playing time will be delayed as we handle these late registrations.

Thanks again to those teams that are done registering. We expect a full and fun start up week. See you on the beach.

Richard Heiles

East End Volleyball

PO Box 49

Hampton Bays, NY 11946

631-728-0397 or 631-355-1293 (Cell)