Tournament Fees

Hello Convention Tournament Participants,

We wanted to include this page on the site to give you a better idea of how the fees we collect for the SOM Baseball Convention will be utilized to assist with the running of this special weekend and also to provide various prizes for the winners and runner-up of each of the three tournaments we will be offering.

While at this early stage, as we are planning the convention, the full set of prizes is not known yet, we wanted to give you an idea of how the funds will be used. At the early convention in the 70’s, we charged only $1 to play but of course the cost of living has come up. So we wanted to do a reasonable fee that anyone could afford if they really wished to join us and we felt for the change to play perhaps over 20 games during a weekend, that $10 was reasonable plus this would provide us with enough funds to buy trophies for the winners and special other prizes from the game company or related to Major League Baseball.

So please check back to this page as we hope within the next few weeks to be able to stay exactly what prizes we will offer. We are sure the winners will be very happy with what we are thinking to offer to make this a most special time. Plus we believe the convention will become a yearly event, so your interest and support, will indirectly make this happen too – thank you!!

Due to collecting our tournament fees on-line via Paypal, they always charge an extra fee, so this is why we added another $1, if you decide to officially register in this way. See below another way to register if Paypal doesn’t work for you.

In addition to trophies and special prizes for those who do well in one of the three tournaments, we also will have some expenses linked to promoting and running the tournaments plus a compensation to the main organizers of the convention for the many hours we will need to put in to make sure the tournaments run smoothly. As after all, this is an experiment in a way, but we believe that by conducting all the games via the internet (using Skype or Netplay) this cuts down tremendously of course, on the cost to have to travel to a location at a distance. Due to the current state of economies in the world, two of the Alliance partners are seeing lower turnouts at their Face-to-Face Tournaments.

If you have any question about the Tournament Fees, or you are unable to use Paypal to register, we can of course accept your registration via check for $10 sent via the mail.  Please contact us at our email address below if this is your situation.

Welcome to the 2013 Strat-o-matic On-line Baseball Convention,
Thank You for your interest and support

The SOM Convention Support Team
email: SomConvention@ultimatestratbaseball.com