Posted by Arnie Burke/NTX USSSA on December 3, 2015, 7:03 am
North Texas USSSA Team Bumps for 2016
North Texas USSSA teams automatically reclassified by the USSSA By-Laws for 2016, as of November 1, 2015:
PLEASE NOTE: Teams required to compete at a higher classification in 2016 by the USSSA By-Laws that may be inadvertently omitted from the list below are not exempt from being reclassified. All tournament result are rounded up. Teams that do not participate in the World tournaments, and teams that are playing up (i.e., a D team participating in the C World tournament), are not included when tabulating the size of the for the purpose of reclassifying teams).
AUTOMATIC MOVEUP OF 2015 OF WOMEN'S CLASS D TEAMS:
Famous Freaks/x-r5/Diamond Sports (Sanger, Texas)
RECLASSIFICATION OF 2015 USSSA TEAMS BY THE NATIONAL CLASSIFICATION COMMITTEE:
The USSSA Slow Pitch By-Laws grant the USSSA National Classification Committee authority to reclassify teams at any time. Teams being reclassified for 2016, by the National Classification Committee, are listed below:
Strokers N Tokers (Dallas) T-Birds (Dallas) We Dem Boyz (DFW) Thrive 254 (Greenville)
RECLASSIFICATION OF 2015 USSSA TEAMS BY THE NORTH TEXAS USSSA CLASSIFICATION COMMITTEE:
2015 Men's D Teams to Men's C
Men's D to Men's C
Hittin Bottom (Longview) Juiced (North Richland Hills) Landstar/VRCP (Lewisville) Legion of Boom (Tyler) Meineke Car Care (Mansfield) NTX Powerhouse (Arlington) Powerhouse (Waco) Silverstar (Dallas) Spartan (Ft. Worth) Texas Empire (Ft. Worth) UA1 (Dallas)
Men's E to D
AM Foundation (Ft. Worth) Goin' Deep (Cedar Hill) He Gone! (Dallas) Players Only (Burleson) Smash It Sports (New Boston) Southern Mercenaries (Carrollton) Stranglers (Burleson) Texas Takeover (Irving) Twisted Ballers Reloaded (Irving)
Mixed D to Mixed C
Don't Tread On Me (Allen) DTF (Benbrook) Royalty/Ashlyn Construction (Cleburne) Psychotic (Dallas) Texas 12 (Irving)
Mixed E to Mixed D
Balls-N-Dolls (Ft. Worth) Dingers and Stingers (Little Elm)
Women's D to Women's C
Fully Loaded (Seagoville)
All team reclassifications, INCLUDING those by the North Texas Classification Committee, are to be considered NATIONAL bumps. There is no such thing as a "local" bump.