YOUR TRAVEL ITINERARY
Trip Sports maintains the itinerary for every participant on this website. When you submit your flight information to Trip Sports, all of the details are entered manually into this website. This includes the date, airline, departure city, arrival city, flight number, and times.

Thus, it is IMPORTANT that you carefully review the flight information in this system to make sure that it matches what you were given by the airline or your travel agent directly. Contact Trip Sports ASAP If you detect any errors with the information listed in your itinerary.

SCHEDULE CHANGES
The Trip Sports website does NOT automatically update flight information if the airline makes adjustments to flight departure or arrival times. Therefore, it is your responsibility to notify us of any major changes. This includes any time change of more than 15 minutes and any flight numbers that are changed.

ARRIVAL IN LAS VEGAS
Upon your arrival in Las Vegas, a representative of Trip Sports will greet you in the baggage claim area. Once your group has its belongings, our staff member will direct you to the hotel shuttles that we are providing.

EMERGENCY INFORMATION
For emergency purposes, you will be able to reach a member of our staff at TBD throughout the duration of the event.

CHECKING IN
Trip Sports will be meeting teams in the lobby of the Paris Las Vegas Resort to help facilitate the check-in process. Based on the rooming list you have provided us, we will have all the preliminary paperwork completed prior to your arrival.

NOTE: The telephones in all rooms will be disabled. If you would like your telephone enabled, the Paris Las Vegas Resort will require that you provide them with a credit card upon check-in. This will be used only for incidentals that you may accumulate during your stay (telephone charges, movie rentals, room service). They will NOT charge your credit card for the room rate itself. That is part of your package through Trip Sports. If you have any questions with this, please contact us.

HOTEL DECORUM
The Paris Las Vegas Resort is a distinguished property in Las Vegas. Accordingly, the hotel caters to business personnel and families. Therefore, decorum is very important to the Paris Las Vegas Resort and Trip Sports. This is especially true in the evening hours after 9pm, in regards to noise. We ask that you remind your team members to be considerate of others when the late hours arrive. As stated in our agreement, Trip Sports is not responsible for chaperoning your players. Coaches and team staff members are responsible if any problems arise.

Throughout our years of experience with group travel, the biggest problem we have experienced in hotels deals with the “throw-over” bars on the doors. These are the bars that you can throw over at night to, in essence, dead-bolt your door. Unfortunately, a lot of times these bars are used to prevent the door from shutting. In theory, this is okay. However, a lot of people will let the door slam on the bar, which results in loud noise. Please remind all your players that if they use the bar to prevent the door from shutting that they DO NOT allow the door to slam the bar. In addition, using the bars in this manner compromises the security of the room. Your cooperation with this matter is greatly appreciated.

PRACTICES
As you can imagine, we have a lot of practices scheduled during the event and we will need everyone’s cooperation to keep things running smoothly. We will have a practice coordinator in the gym to help with this process. We expect all teams to depart the hotel on time so that you may take the court at your appointed time. You will be allowed to practice until the end of your scheduled 60 minutes (at a minimum), or whenever the next team is ready to go.

GAME SCHEDULE / UNIFORMS
At the end of this document is a game schedule for the entire event. The schedule displays a visiting and home team for each contest. Please review the schedule carefully to be sure which color uniform you are wearing for each game. For any few teams that are wearing the same color uniform for all games, we ask that you bring both sets of uniforms if possible. You can never tell when a situation might arise that a team may be unable to wear its appointed colors. If there are any issues with this, contact us ASAP.

GAME PROTOCOL
At the back of this booklet you will find a game protocol sheet. Please note that your promptness is very important for the smooth operation of the event. Once the previous game is over and the floor cleared, a minimum of 20 minutes will be put on the clock and no game will start early.

TOWELS & ATHLETIC TRAINING
Please be aware that towels will be available on a VERY limited basis. An athletic trainer will be on site throughout the duration of the Las Vegas Hoopla to assist you and your players. However, it is requested that you bring your own kits if possible.

It is very important that you understand that the trainers we provide are there for emergency services and BASIC taping and wrapping, such as ankles. They are not able to provide heat treatments, stem treatments, etc.

Access to Dressing Rooms
You will be able to access your dressing room approximately 60 minutes prior to your game start. If the game(s) before you run late, the time may be pushed back.

Warm-up Time
If there is a game before you, at the completion of that game a minimum of 20 minutes will be put on the clock for warm-ups. If games are running behind schedule, that time may be reduced ONLY if both coaches agree to the reduction in warm-up time.

Starting Early
No game will start earlier than the scheduled time.

National Anthem
The general rule of thumb is that the National Anthem is played before the first game of each day.

Starting Lineups
All starting lineups will be announced. For games with the National Anthem, the anthem is played first, then the starting lineups.

Halftime
The standard 15 minute halftimes will be utilized.

Valuables in Dressing Rooms
Please do not leave any valuables in the dressing rooms. Trip Sports and the associated host facility cannot be held liable for loss or damage of any valuables left unattended in these rooms.

EVENT WEBSITE
As you may know, Trip Sports has an event website for the Las Vegas Hoopla. The address is:

www.lasvegashoopla.com

This website contains a “Game Schedule” page for all interested parties to view. Each game will have a “Watch” button to access our live video stream (see below). This page will also be updated after games with results.

DIGITAL GAME PROGRAM
In lieu of a traditional printed game program, Trip Sports has gone digital via its event website for the Las Vegas Hoopla. The event site contains logos for all teams on the front page and also on the game schedule page. All logos and team names are linked to their respective school website. This allows you to see up-to-date information on schedule/results, roster, stats, and more.

STATISTICS
Trip Sports will be providing statistics for all games using Stat Crew software. Thus, Trip Sports will be requesting stat crew rosters from your Sports Information Director. Copies of box scores will be available at halftime and post-game.

GAME FILMS
Our staff will be filming all contests. Thus, you do not need to bring video equipment. However, feel free to bring your own equipment if you so desire. An email will be sent to each school on how to download the video file after each game. Contact Todd Utrup if you do not receive the email with instructions.

LIVE VIDEO STREAMING
Trip Sports will be attempting to LIVE VIDEO STREAM all games at the Las Vegas Hoopla. Users can access the link through the schedule page for the Las Vegas Hoopla on the event website (www. lasvegashoopla.com). There is a per user fee of $8.95 per game for this service.

POST-GAME STATISTICS & REPORTING
Following each contest, Trip Sports will be posting the results on the event website (www.lasvegashoopla.com). Stats files will also be emailed to all SIDs.

As you know, breakfast is a part of the package that Trip Sports provides. Upon your arrival into Las Vegas, you will be given vouchers for your breakfasts. Each person will need to present one voucher each morning to receive the breakfast.

Upon receipt of the vouchers, Trip Sports’ staff will inform you on the location and times of the breakfasts each day.

For other team meals, there are an incredible amount of restaurants within walking distance. Because things are always changing in Las Vegas, the best way to scout out options is to use a map service (Apple Maps, Google Maps) and search for food.

During your stay in Las Vegas, you will have various ground transportation services available to you.

Upon your arrival at the Paris Las Vegas Resort, a member of Trip Sports’ staff will greet you and will show you or an assistant the exact location for boarding the ground transportation shuttles provided by Trip Sports.

Due to the setup of the hotel and the surrounding streets, all shuttles to or from the gymnasium will load/unload from the North side of the Bally’s Resort. The Bally’s Resort is connected to the Paris Las Vegas Resort.

When you are departing for the airport at the end of your stay, you will load from the main entry of the Paris Las Vegas Resort.

NOTE: All of your scheduled shuttles departing from the hotel will be clearly listed on your itinerary and indicate the location you will depart from.

GYMNASIUM SHUTTLES
These shuttles take you to and from the gymnasium for practice and for games. Each team has its own bus when traveling to or from its games. However, individuals that have purchased a “bus pass” from Trip Sports may occasionally be on your bus to/from a game. Generally speaking, they are the parents, fans, or boosters of your own program / school.

Please keep in mind that these gymnasium shuttles need to run on time. We ask that you have your team in the lobby 10 minutes before your scheduled departure time.

AIRPORT TRANSFERS
All airport transfers are provided via coach bus and depart from the main entrance to the Paris Las Vegas Resort.

ATTACHED DOCUMENTS
The attached documents for gym shuttles and airport returns are provided as a reference. Please remember that YOUR specific times are listed in your itinerary in the app, website, and pdf itinerary.

Note: If you don’t see a link for these documents, they have not yet been posted. Please check back.