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Note:  Due to summer vacations, accepted teams will not be updated until August 15th

The success of our tournament relies heavily on the combination of great volunteers and partnerships established with our sponsors. New this year, HTG Sports is the exclusive travel partner for all our annual Tournaments. Effective immediately, one of the criteria for acceptance into our tournaments is that any team requiring hotel accommodations must be secured through HTG Sports. Any team not complying with this directive will be denied entry into the tournament. HTG Sports has secured blocks at the participating host hotels so be sure to contact them early to book your team.

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NOTE - I would like to correct some misconceptions & answer some common questions.

Q.  Are we limited to only certain hotels?

A.  No - if there is a specific hotel you want, HTG will work with you to try and secure rooms at the hotel of your choice at a great price.  Last year, my son's team went to a tournament in Ottawa and we knew what hotel we wanted.  I had gotten a price from the hotel directly before realizing that we were to use HTG -  the price I got from HTG was $10/night cheaper than the price that I had gotten from the hotel directly!  They are committed to working with you to get the accommodations you want at the best possible price. (*In a very few cases, HTG may not be able to provide certain hotels - there are a couple of hotels that either do not work with agencies or that HTG has put teams into a facility in the recent past and they treated the teams so poorly that they cannot in good conscience put any of our teams there.)

Q.  Will it increase the workload for the team manager?

A.  Actually, it makes the team manager's job easier - I have used them a couple of times now for my son's teams & instead of having to spend time contacting a number of hotels for availability and pricing, which was sometimes a very frustrating job, HTG does all the work for you.  After selecting your hotel, HTG provides a booking link to send to the families & they book their own rooms.  There are no rooming lists or collecting credit card information from your families (which I hated)!

It's easy for the team manager to log in & see who still has yet to book so you can send reminders only to those people.

Q.  Why are you making us book through HTG this year?

A. Tournament expenses have gone up all around - ice costs, participant gifts, trophies - due to inflation & HST.  We do not want to cut anything from our tournament - we still want to be able to provide every participant with a gift, keep longer game lengths, with space in between to ensure that we run on time, and provide nice prizes to both Champions & Finalists.  HTG provides a sponsorship to our association, which will help to allow us to provide the same excellent tournament without passing along 100% of the increased costs to the teams.

If you have any other questions or concerns, please contact me at tournaments@forteriehockey.com

Thanks, Kathy