Gym Rats Win in Menomonie, Tourneyville Brackets

#3 posting 7.10.2007
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Wisconsin Report

GREAT LAKES SHOOTOUT
The Omaha Crusaders (older team) won the Great Lakes Shootout in Menomonie last weekend. The finals had no Wisconsin teams with OC beating the Dakota Lightning 69-44. Dakota Lightning was 0-3 in pool play. Team WI Select 17, who have won two tournaments in Menomonie this year, lost in the semis to OC 54-35.
In the HS level it was Eau Claire North taking the title with a 46-22 win over Barron.

At the Bronze level the Gym Rats 14 U won the Bronze Division (15U) at the Great Lakes Shootout in Menominee last weekend. They defeated the Jr. Bison 43-33.

TOURNEYVILLE
If you notice the scores and results are powered by tourneyville.com.

Tourneyville.com provides custom bracketing and live scoring. The site hosts just logs in to the site and selects a bracket and game and enters the score. Pool play records are automatically calculated and in bracket play teams advance automatically. Tourneyville provides a desktop and handheld web interface for tournament administration, most used function is of course posting scores. Cell phone with Internet access can be used to post scores and perform other useful tournament administration functions like posting schedule changes and querying a game score to name a couple of the more commonly used administrative tasks.

Tourneyville is providing online custom bracketing and live scoring for all the basketball events run by the Wisconsin AAU this season, including their Shootouts events in July.

Basketball is not their only sport either, the service can be used for any sport. Tourneyville is running all the baseball tournaments this summer run by the Eastern New York Travel Baseball league and expect this sport to grow quickly as word gets out that they are the only player in the world that can provide an online custom bracket that model the complex double elimination brackets that are used by the major sanctioning bodies for baseball national qualifying tournaments.

Tourneyville is a Minnesota based company, and got thei start doing traveling basketball tournaments two years ago. They have 100% customer retention and this remains a company goal.

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next up: college reports; later today two more out & abouts from the Mid American tournament---the 16u games.