Month: May 2022

Men’s Slowpitch National Team Announced

Irish Slowpitch National Team Manager Senan Dormer has announced the Irish roster for the upcoming Men’s Slowpitch Championships to be played in Colorno, Italy from June 14 – July 18, 2022.

The European Championships will be the second edition of the Men’s event. Ireland previously participated in the inaugral event in 2018

The Ireland squad for the tournament see’s 4 uncapped players included in the roster which is an exciting mix of youth and experience.

As with all Ireland squads, these are self funded and we would ask our members to support the fund raising activities of the players.

Softball Ireland enter streaming partnership with Joymo

As part of this season’s strategy, Softball Ireland (SI) are exploring ways to improve the visibility of the sport both here in Ireland and abroad through new streaming services that can bring wider access to games at all events and leagues across Ireland in 2022.

Included as part of our wider growth strategy, SI believes that a strong, quality, and consistent streaming solution is imperative for the sport.  Streaming has become standard for all levels of sport in Ireland and abroad, and with this growth, a number of innovative solutions & tools are more readily available that can be utilised to make it easier to access, but also for teams to fundraise and monetise effectively.

As part of this process, we’ll be testing with live streaming with a handful of teams across the SI leagues.  While this year will be a pilot program for a few teams who have shown interest in testing, the platform and service is available to all teams at all levels if interested.

The objective of the pilot program is to test the technology and see if these types of OTT providers can be a solution long term that all teams, events, and tournaments for Softball can utilise for both awareness but also fundraising.  

Through numerous conversations with streaming providers, SI has identified Joymo as a viable solution to provide the early tools and technology that are easy to use, as well as tick the box on core features and functionality that are important for a successful long term streaming strategy.  

Joymo works with other federation members in Ireland as well as in UK and around Europe for a range of different sports, and are eager to work with Softball Ireland and the teams as we trial and test their services throughout 2022.

You can find out more about Joymo via their website here.

Participating teams have the ability to host all games live that can be accessible on desktop or via their app.  Tools include the ability to have a scoreboard for matches and commentary.  Through the platform, all games will be accessible for participating members via the archive, and includes both subscriptions as well as advertising that gives easy solutions for clubs to offset costs and further raise sponsorship.  

We’ll be looking to host training sessions and further communication around the wider pilot program strategy for the 2022 season in the coming weeks as well.

We look forward to rolling out more communication around this in the coming weeks.  Any questions can be directed to Matt at streaming@softball.ie.

New Slowpitch and Fastpitch Rulebooks available from the WBSC

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has now published updated 2022-2025 Official Rulebooks for slowpitch and fastpitch softball.  

These new Rulebooks, and summaries of major changes made to the previous Rulebooks, can be downloaded from the links below:

2022-2025 Slowpitch Rulebook
https://static.wbsc.org/assets/cms/documents/5e85a934-d622-2bd8-62f9-854264607589.pdf

Summary of changes to the Slowpitch Rulebook
https://static.wbsc.org/assets/cms/documents/c539c225-15d6-57f6-50e9-a38b65aa3978.pdf

2022-2025 Fastpitch Rulebook
https://static.wbsc.org/assets/cms/documents/b5480455-60e2-bfc3-1e2e-3566c2765cc5.pdf

Summary of changes to the Fastpitch Rulebook
https://static.wbsc.org/assets/cms/documents/a00ab077-6716-bc07-06a2-c193e9f2fac1.pdf

COED Slowpitch National Team

Irish Slowpitch National Team Manager Senan Dormer has announced the Irish Roster for the upcoming COED Slowpitch Championships to be played in Ljubljana, Slovenia from July 12 – July 16, 2022.

The European Chamoionships will be the first Slowpitch Championships since 2019 at which Ireland took a bronze medal. This years tournament is also a qualifying event for the inaugraly COED Slowpitch World Cup which will be held in 2023.

The Ireland squad for the tournament see’s 10 uncapped players included in the roster which is an exciting mix of youth and experience.

As with all Ireland squads, these are self funded and we would ask our members to support the fund raising activities of the players.

2022 COED National Team Roster