Listed below is some general information that will apply to all NSA West tournaments

These rules are effective January 1st, 2025. Click Here for the 2025 rules.

1. NSA Team and Roster Insurance:
• must be uploaded to your team page on playnsa.com
2. Guest Player Requirements: (Link to Form)
   • Guest forms must be submitted no later than 8PM the day before the tournament. No weekend submissions.
   • Guest players may only be used if your teams available players fall below 11 for that weekend tournament.
   • If you have 10 then 1, 9 then 2, 8 then 3 guest players allowed
   • You can only have a maxmimum of 11 players listed on the lineup during a game.
   • All positions are eligible for Guest Players.
   • A team can only use three Guest Players in one sanction fall, spring, or summer season.
   • A player can only be used three times in the same sanction fall, spring, or summer season as a Guest Player.
   • No Guest Players are allowed for the State Championships or Western Nationals/World Series
3. Game Times:
• Saturday Pool Play 70 Minute no new inning and can end in a tie. 80 minute drop dead and can end in a tie.
• If the game is tied at the 80 minute drop dead time limit and the home team is at bat the game ends in a tie.
• All other scenarios where the home team is behind or not yet batted, the game score reverts to the previous complete inning.
• Sundays Bracket Play - Game times are 75 minutes Must Have a Winner. Championship Game 90 minute Must Have a Winner
4. Tournament Entry Fee's:
• Adults $8.00 / Kids (8 - 17), Seniors, and Military $6.00 / Kids 7 & under Free
• All Participating Players and 3 Coaches Per Team enter for Free.
5. Team Music:
• Will be allowed at the discretion of the Tournament Director.
• Keep volume to a minimum level so not to affect the opponent and teams playing on other fields.
• Can only be played prior to game starting and between innings.
• Any walk up music played must end when the batter begins stepping into the batters box.
6. Smoking, skateboards and bikes are not allowed inside the park
7. No dogs are allowed inside the park. (Service Dogs are the exception.)
8. Lock your vehicles. Do not leave valuables in sight.
9. Teams are responsible for keeping the warm up areas, the bleachers and the dugouts clean.
10. UNSPORTSMAN LIKE CONDUCT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!
    • This includes everyone associated with the team; coaches, managers, players and spectators.
    • Anyone using abusive language or behavior will be subject to ejection from the tournament.
    • All coaches are expected to control their respective teams and fans during the tournament.
11. All offense players will wear a helmet in all live play! The first offense by any player is a warning, second offense is the restriction of the player and the head coach.
12. The 5-Up rule will apply for 10U teams. (No team can score more than 5 runs if they are ahead while at bat.)
13. First come - first serve for choice of dugouts (teams will remain in the same dugout should they play back to back games on the same field.)
14. A coin flip will determine the home team for pool play only. Home team will be the official scorekeeper
15. Rule and / or player protests require a $75 cash bond per question paid in advance by the protesting team. The money will be returned if the protest is upheld. The umpire-in-chief and the tournament director will make the final ruling.
16. Sunday championship seeding will be determined by Win/Loss Record first, then Head to Head (unless more than two teams with the same record, then excluded), Runs Allowed, Runs Scored and Coin Flip in that order.

(See 2025 National Softball Association Rulebook)