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Dear Coaches and Managers:

Welcome to the Manhattan SC KOC 2020 Showcase. We appreciate your support and look forward to hosting you on our home fields of Randall's Island and providing your teams an ideal opportunity to showcase and prepare for the spring in one centralized location.

We are very close to completing schedules but in the meantime flights/brackets are now live at the link below

https://www.gotsport.com/asp/directors/tournament/vieweventteamscleanb.asp?EventID=77513

Additional details regarding online check-in and other salient points will be forthcoming in the next 5 days

Once again, thank you on behalf of Manhattan Soccer Club.

No Barca , No bulldogs, No Sesa. ??

Wow, crazy how this has been downsized. Shame. Watch, mother nature will be kind this year.

The shame is you for your totally uninformed comment. Simply a stupid comment based on knowing nothing. Now I could tell you the story, but I'd rather not because I don't think you would lucid enough to grasp what really was behind the change to an invitational event.

Insurance

So enlighten us o Carnac the Great. Not seeing anything that's offensive in that post to warrant the defensive remark. The fact is it's smaller than in previous years and surprising for teams that have applied in the past.

The truth is the tournament bit off more than they can chew. It got out of control with games all over on top of it gets canceled most of the time. A lot less refunds! So they only invited the weak teams?

That sounds more like it. There are some strong teams on there, but many that seem to be there because they are available. Local teams most likely didn't bother applying anymore.

As far as I am aware of don’t teams applied. The Manhattan club reached out. Did clubs decline for one reason or another that’s possible but the club reached out and more importantly the format of the tournament has changed it’s now an invitational and the club itself wanted the teams limited to 100 at most.

What happened to the powerhouses of yesteryear in the older bracket?? Brentwood, Hota, NHP, Met Oval?

Manhattan only invited mostly big clubs I’ll wash your back you wash my back mentality.
Good luck to all the teams and hopefully weather holds out. Maybe they’ll change the date in the future so it can regain the proper Manhattan Kickoff Classic with much more quality teams.

Susa, Cedar Stars, DUSC, World Class, East Meadow thruout all the brackets

Bigger clubs! Small clubs or teams were left off the list.

The tournament this year is being held at only one location, Randall's Island. The tournament was limited to 90 teams.

Your little team wasn’t asked ?? Sorry don’t hate

were the divisions for girls cancelled, thought they were playing but see no sign on anything?

There are no girls teams. The tournament was limited to only 100 teams and not enough girls teams applied.

Larry, Is this the NESS tournament scheduled for this weekend?

No this is the Manhattan soccer club kick off classic weekend

Definitely disappointed. Years past they never had an issue with girls teams. So this is now a boys tournament on Randalls Island. Good for them but what does that say about girls soccer in this area that they say there were not enough teams? I would think the girls division parents cannot be happy they are home while the boys will be playing.

In previous years the tournament took hundreds and hundreds of teams. This year they changed the format to an invitational limiting the total amount of teams to 100, and the girls side did not step up. Do not blame the tournament or the club. The club and tournament reached out to girls teams, but the girls sides did not show interest.

Division parents should reach out to their clubs and start complaining. It says nothing except clubs that were invited chose not to go.

NESS tournament is cancelled. Supposedly because of the cold.

I don’t think the cold weather has anything to do with the fact that the NESS tournament isn’t happening. As a matter of fact, I know it has nothing to do with the cold weather.

Lack of teams or lack of fields, I would assume the former but it could be a combination.