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Banners
by Amy Dahlin 30 Jun '26

30 Jun '26

Do you have your tournament banners say “Washington State” or just “Washington”? Amy Dahlin District Administrator WA District 11 Little League

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Building Brackets
by Rob Little 09 Jun '26

09 Jun '26

Since many of us will be building brackets over the next several weeks, I wanted let folks know that I've built an add-in for Excel to help build and format brackets that match LL double elimination brackets. If you want to use it, just click on Add Ins in Excel and then search for "Bracket Builder". Let me know if there's anything I can do to help out (using bracket builder or any other way I can help with your brackets). --rob (trying to be a helpful state website guy)

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State Website
by Rob Little 05 Jun '26

05 Jun '26

Just a little update on our state website. Our state site is moving from https://littleleaguewa.org to https://littleleaguewash.org I have moved all of our content and updated our site to the latest, secure versions of things. I have also updated a lot of old content (like the tournament history - the last 5 years are all updated now). I haven't redirected out old site, yet, but I will be doing that soon. If I did everything right, you shouldn't notice a difference other than the new website is much faster and more secure. (for our upcoming tournaments, here is the administration page where I will post all of our editable brackets as well as all the state packets (as I get them): 2026 Tournament Administration - WASHINGTON STATE<https://littleleaguewash.org/state-tournaments/2026-tournament-administrati…>. The password for the admin page is Wash2026 (if you want to hear the reasons behind moving to the new site, let me know and I can fill you in privately) --rob

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Constitution/bylaws
by Melanie Heaton 30 May '26

30 May '26

Hey all, Im curious who has a constitution and or bylaws for their districts, and if you do, would you mind sharing them? I know it's not a requirement from LL

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Tournament Combination Forms - How to Reject
by Brian Marantz 29 May '26

29 May '26

>From chatting with a few of my fellow DA's, we are all in the same boat that we have leagues that are incorrectly filling out Tournament Combination Requests, and the deadline is June 1. Such as listing only their All Star player counts on the form instead of their Regular Season Player counts-as it says right in the section on the form. When this happens, there is no way to edit. LL needs to fix this. BUT... I have confirmed that there is a way short-circuit the rejection needed so that the leagues can create a new form without it having to wade all the way through the process, to the DA and to Regional. KIT confirmed it with me and that we should be using this method! IF a partner league has not completed their own section, but we already know the initial data from the previous leagues is incorrect and that the entire form will need to start again, just have the partner league reject it. It kills the form right there and the HOST league can start the form again. In addition, you don't even have to have the partner league reject it. As DA, you can log in as them and go and reject it yourself! Even with several emails and screenshots to my leagues in the past 10 days, I have had to reject multiple Tournament Combo forms so far because leagues are entering All Star player counts and not Regular Season player counts. If the form is already on the DA to approve and reject, then unfortunately the DA has to reject it, and then ask Regional to Reject BEFORE the HOST league will even be allowed to create a new form and try again. But this sometimes takes time. NOW, if you see its already wrong and in-process, since there is no way to edit it, get the partner league to reject it (or go do it yourself as DA) and then they can start again and shorten the process of getting it started again. Just passing this along since we are all up to our eyeballs in Tournament Combo forms right now and the deadline looming in 3 days. Brian Marantz District Administrator Washington District 8 Little League (425) 785-9400 brianmarantz(a)hotmail.com<mailto:brianmarantz@hotmail.com> https://www.llwadistrict8.org<https://www.llwadistrict8.org/> https://www.facebook.com/wadistrict8/ [A cartoon octopus holding a baseball bat AI-generated content may be incorrect.] [cid:image002.jpg@01DCEF72.64DD09B0]

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LL Reminders for this week (2 DA meetings + more)
by Brian Marantz 26 May '26

26 May '26

>From Brian the Secretary… Reminders: * This evening, Tue May 26: Western Region DA’s Webinar 6pm. See attached. * Tomorrow evening, Wed May 27: Tournament Excellence DA’s Webinar (Williamsport). 5pm PT. You must register (via attached) to get the link. * Please update the linked chart<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sHDQ2fhajNQ--fb2mne6DFA74wWOFDen/ed…> tracking if your District will be sending teams to the various levels of WA State Tournaments, AND if you are hosting, list it at the bottom of the same chart. * Please communicate the location of your State Tournaments, State Packets, and State Brackets to Rob Little<mailto:rlittle@d9ump.org> for posting on the new WA State LL website<https://littleleaguewash.org/>. * This Sunday May 31 is the final regular Little League Day at the Seattle Mariners at TMobile Park. For those coming to the parade and the suite afterwards, Doug (D1) and myself (D8) are each going to draw our State Bracket Seedings. If you want in on this and also do your draws, we can do that too. Brian Marantz District Administrator Washington District 8 Little League (425) 785-9400 brianmarantz(a)hotmail.com<mailto:brianmarantz@hotmail.com> https://www.llwadistrict8.org<https://www.llwadistrict8.org/>

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2026 State Softball 8/10 will be at Bar-S in West Seattle
by cammie pekonen 21 May '26

21 May '26

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood! I am confirming that District 7 will be hosting 2026 State Softball 8/10 at Bar-S Fields in West Seattle. Smiles - Cammie Pekonen WA D7 Little League District Administrator 206-419-3501

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Little League All Star Tournaments - Will you have a Team or State
by Brian Marantz 21 May '26

21 May '26

Hi, Instead of an endless stream of emails answering an array of questions like "will your District have an All Star Team at < enter your level of play here >", how about we do this: Go to this link on my shared Google drive and enter your District info if you will have a team at each level. 2026 WA State Tournaments by District and level (LINK)<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sHDQ2fhajNQ--fb2mne6DFA74wWOFDen/ed…> If you enter "Yes" in any cell, it will automatically total it up. I gave everyone full access to this file to edit it. If you are technology challenged, just reply to me and I will post for you. We know its not even May 1. But as you know info about your District, you can enter it here. I have also copied the dates and locations as listed from the WA State LL website for 2026 Tournaments<https://www.littleleaguewa.org/state-tournaments/2026-state-tournament-date…> (LINK). If you know where your State Tournament is please remember to enter that info and let Glen know so that he (via Rob) can keep the State website current. Lots of missing locations still. Brian Marantz District Administrator Washington District 8 Little League (425) 785-9400 brianmarantz(a)hotmail.com<mailto:brianmarantz@hotmail.com> https://www.llwadistrict8.org<https://www.llwadistrict8.org/> https://www.facebook.com/wadistrict8/

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FW: Office Hours Follow Up
by Brian Marantz 21 May '26

21 May '26

For anyone who wants the links to the GameChanger recording and slide deck from the webinar they held on Tue May 19. --brian From: Anna Nickel <anna.nickel(a)gc.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2026 9:28 AM To: brianmarantz(a)hotmail.com Subject: Office Hours Follow Up Hi Brian- Thanks for the tremendous turnout last night and the great questions asked! As promised, here are the links to the resources: Link to the Recording<https://c2qm604.na1.hs-sales-engage.com/Ctc/F8+23284/c2qM604/JlF2-6qcW8wLKS…> Link to the Deck<https://c2qm604.na1.hs-sales-engage.com/Ctc/F8+23284/c2qM604/Jks4YGXpW69t95…> Resources: Join us on Facebook<https://c2qm604.na1.hs-sales-engage.com/Ctc/F8+23284/c2qM604/Jl22-6qcW7lCdL…> for the best GC expert support. This is also a great place to invite your scorekeepers. Thank you! Anna Nickel Sr. Marketing Manager anna.nickel(a)gc.com<http://anna.nickel@gc.com/> gc.com/softball<https://gc.com/softball>

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Senior Softball
by Amy Dahlin 20 May '26

20 May '26

Checking in to see if anyone is planning to have a Senior Softball team this summer... -- Amy Dahlin District Administrator WA District 11 Little League

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