The Hampden Middlesex Monroe Silver Spring (HMMS) Soccer Club is sponsoring the 30th Annual Hampden Memorial Day Soccer Tournament on Memorial Day Weekend, May 26-27, 2012. The tournament will be held in and around Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania (close to Harrisburg). HMMS is a member of the Central Pennsylvania Youth Soccer League (CPYSL) and the Eastern Pennsylvania Youth Soccer Association (EPYSA) along with Philadelphia Girls Soccer (PAGS) and (DELCO). The tournament is USSF approved and this tournament is open to both travel and classic teams.
The Tournament’s new World Cup format features two rounds of play.
Qualification Round: Teams will be randomly placed into Four Team Pools for a round-robin tournament format during which each team plays three 20-minute games. Teams are awarded points based on their wins, losses, and ties. Total points earned are used to seed the teams into Eight Team Divisions for the Championship round of play.
Championship Round: Each eight team division will start its own series of championship elimination games on Saturday afternoon. The four winning teams will advance into Sunday’s winners’ bracket and the four losing teams will move into the losers’ bracket. In Sunday’s Championship round’s elimination format; one team will advance from the losers’ bracket to challenge the team from the winners’ bracket for the division championship. Teams will play at least 3 championship round games. All games are now 40-minute games and drawn matches are decided by a Shootout format.