{"id":1529,"date":"2007-03-14T22:29:45","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T06:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2007-03-14T22:31:01","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T06:31:01","slug":"18th-annual-skins-tournament-canberra-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"18th Annual Skins Tournament &#8211; Canberra, Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alsfastball.com\"><strong>From Al&#8217;s Fastball:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nG\u00e2\u20ac\u2122day Al<\/p>\n<p>CANBERRA, AU<\/p>\n<p>As per our phone conversation we are running our 18th consecutive men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tournament in  Canberra November 30 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c December2 2007. <\/p>\n<p>This tournament has now taken on a skins format with upwards of $20,000 in prize money.  It is a club format but as you know all clubs try to strengthen themselves.  Each team is guaranteed 2 games and the final game is the two teams who have earned the most prize money in the pool games. <\/p>\n<p>We would sure love to see our first team from North America.  Teams can contact me at theharrows(at)optusnet.com.au <\/p>\n<p>To continue our big week of softball we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hosting the South Pacific Classic in Canberra at the Hawker International Softball Complex.  It starts on Wednesday 5th December and runs until Saturday 8th December.  It will consist of 5 teams (Nationals) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Japan, Samoa, World Champs New Zealand and Australia will put two teams in, consisting of the top 34 Australian players.<\/p>\n<p>The Skins Tournament is used as part of our selection process so you can see the calibre of ball it generates.  My main point of this whole exercise was to try and promote our game across Australia and hopefully like you do so well across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Yours in Fastpitch Softball<br \/>\nBob Harrow.<br \/>\n theharrows(at)optusnet.com.au<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Al&#8217;s Fastball: G\u00e2\u20ac\u2122day Al CANBERRA, AU As per our phone conversation we are running our 18th consecutive men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tournament in Canberra November 30 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c December2 2007. This tournament has now taken on a skins format with upwards of $20,000 in prize money. It is a club format but as you know all clubs try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}