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little league all-stars play in double elimination tournaments. winners go on to the next one. all the way to the little league world series. they try to play each game at a neutral field. which actually turns out to be a lot of work. each round is played on the same day. so the league has to find volunteers who don't want to go see their team play. turns out, this year that's me. i volunteered to be the tournament director at our home games. the first time didn't go so well. fortunately it was a tournament of champions game. and doubly fortunately someone else did the announcing. the second time was an all-star game. and there was a lot more work to do. i did my homework beforehand. i wrote up and printed out a script to follow. i also had a pre-game checklist. i kept going over the checklist until everything was done. much of which was collect names (and pronunciations!) and fill in the blanks in the script. then at game time i just read the script from start to finish. voila!