We were told before June 1 to treat it like walking into the box with an illegal bat. Whether that is correct leads me to wonder as we are all over the place with procedures. I am going to see if I can word a proposal for tournaments that offer the option to hit-your-own that maybe can get us on the same page and is also in print.
I was one who never thought HYO would ever work. I also did a lot of business with Worth back then and they would sponsor my state tournaments with gear, etc for buying so much quantity. Those were the good ole' days. I would use the same balls in June/July that we supplied in late March/Early April and just get shredded over it. The same ball they couldn't remotely keep in the yard in March was dying like a quail 15-25 feet from the fence. I had a B state tournament game around 2005 that was on a 90+ degree day that was 6-3 with one over the fence home run. A storm blew thru and when we got back on the field it was 20 degrees cooler and now we have DBO's in the bottom of the second because they were already over the 4 HR's in the first inning and the other team hadnt gone into one-up yet using the exact same ball as earlier in the day!
Our first year of HYO was tough the first few times out, but we adapted. One team come up to me complaining about the ball being dead and I almost burst out laughing because they supplied it not me.
Of course I sold them some Dudley's and they went away happy.
The D Worlds we supplied the ball, the only problem I ever had with me supplying them was I spent all day on the other side of the fence chasing home run balls. Someone would ask me how good a team was and all I could say was I saw about 1 inning per game they played so I don't know.
