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TourneyCentral, an online service available to Soccer Tournament Directors, announced that the users of its service now receive the added benefit of having their scores, schedules, announcements and information automatically “tweeted” out to followers on Twitter at @tourneycentral. Twitter is a micro-blogging application and is currently the hottest social media tool on the market. The [...]

Gerard McLean, President/CEO of Rivershark, Inc. can now officially claim he “kicks ass” as his blog, GerardMcLean.com has been included in the Egos section of the popular magazine-style web site Alltop.com. The RSS feed for McLean’s blog can be found at http://egos.alltop.com. Additionally, you can see what other blogs McLean read by visiting his MyAlltop [...]

Rivershark’s client, National Association of Retail Merchandisers was highlighted by ABC’s Good Morning America as one of the best websites to find mystery shopping jobs.

The Rivershark Rockers won the Girls U19 division at the 2008 West Carrollton Soccer Blast, held this weekend in West Carrollton and Miamisburg. The girls played a five-team round robin division and finished first following a game on Sunday afternoon.

Rivershark Rockers upset Chatham, Illinois team to win the Fort Wayne Invitational

The TICO Score brand has been in development under the Rivershark banner since 2004 when it became clear the soccer tournament market needed a quick, reliable and consistent way to rank the quality and participant satisfaction of youth soccer tournaments. TICO Score is loosely based on the familiar FICO Score format that banks and financial institutions use for determining credit-worthiness.

The Rivershark Rockers were awarded finalist medals today at the 22nd annual adidas Warrior Soccer Classic in the Girls U19 Gold division. The final game was against the Ambassador SC from Columbus, Oh. The final score was 5-0.

“Charm City Cakes is right there in Baltimore,” says Gerard McLean, Principle at TourneyCentral. “We like to support the local economy when we do a trade show and this was just the perfect opportunity.”

Hyper-localism is the practice of reporting news stories that happening in your own neighborhoods and backyards. Club soccer is hyper-local for most newspapers and the soccer public demands coverage.

Four tournaments, the Novi Jaquar Invitational, the adidas Warrior Soccer Classic, the Pikes Peak Invitational and the Veterans Invitational will be showing at the 2008 NSCAA Convention January 17-19, 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland.
The collaborative effort was an initiative by TourneyCentral to expand the tournament presence within the trade.

TourneyCentral.com announced today it has established a Facebook profile for the soccer tournament community. The limited view Facebook profile is available to anyone with a Facebook profile and the full profile is available once a friends request has been granted. Some of the content includes a comprehensive calendar of tournament events, photos galleries and shared videos.

In addition to the exhibit space, TourneyCentral will also be presenting a case study workshop on “Soccer Organizations and Hyper-Localism; How to harness local media for your event.” The workshop has yet to be scheduled by the NSCAA, but will be held during the convention as part of their coaches’ education workshops.

TourneyCentral.com announced today that the web sites that deliver real-time information about youth soccer tournaments are 100% compatible with iPhone.

TourneyCentral.com announces the release of the Soccer Tournament Knowledge Blog titled www.tournamentreview.com. The web site will contain articles of interest for soccer tournament directors who are looking to stay abreast of the latest trends and best practices of the soccer tournament industry.

At all your local Cox Ohio Newspaper websites, navigating to soccer from under the Sports category, the information is proudly displayed free of charge to anyone who is interested in their local soccer world. Information being displayed such as upcoming tournaments to local soccer news to blurbs on local teams, all included with photos to allow you to see some of the action.

TourneyCentral announces another addition to its outstanding staff, John Kingham. Kingham, the Referee Coordinator, will focus on clients issues with the referee assignment tools.

TourneyCentral is proud to announce its newest addition to its outstanding team of staff, Tom Helbig. Tom will be joining the TourneyCentral team as the new National Sales Director beginning July 3rd 2006.

Today Rivershark, Inc. announces the promotion of Christian McLean to Director, Tournament Operations. In his new position, Mr. McLean will be responsible for all aspects of producing a TourneyCentral.com website including coordinating onsite photography and assisting tournament directors in the various functions of the website, from marketing to scheduling and scoring.

ourneyCentral is an online service available to Soccer Tournament Directors worldwide. The five-year-old service provides schedules, directions, real-time scores, tournament photos and a message board called the Spirit Center.

An independent marketing firm analyzed the number of teams, players, referees, coaches and cumulative number of tournaments in order to provide the conclusions presented in each paper of the series.

Version 3.0 of the TournamentTrak™ software was released today by TourneyCentral.com, the premier Soccer Tournament web cast and production company, based in Englewood (Dayton), OH.

“By combining custom built web software and a large number of photographs from the games, a TourneyCentral.com website is able to generate a large amount of traffic unprecedented for a youth tournament website.”