Dugout question

BuckeyeBW said:

The only advantage is for guys like me that are fat and lazy. I coach first base so I prefer the 1st base side dugout

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nixxy311 said:

In our EOS tournament this weekend, we had a little drama related to the dugouts.

I know that with the brackets, a lot of tournaments say the team on top gets the 1st base dugout and bottom gets the 3rd base dugout. That's generally how we play until you get into the loser bracket games.

The way we've always played is that if the same team is continuing to win and it's not two new teams playing, that the new team will take the other dugout - regardless of top/bottom.

So we were in the loser's bracket and won the last loser's bracket game to make it to the championship and happened to be on the 1st base side. I think the way the bracket was, we were on top anyway but we took it because the team we had played was in the other dugout.

So our team is setup and resting for the next game - our parents are completely set up.

While our game was finishing, I guess the other team had their stuff outside our dugout. And when our game ended assumed they would take that dugout. Our HC talked to their HC and asked if he wanted the dugout but the other HC was fine with it. But prior to this, the parents from the other team were pissed that they had to go to the other side.

Is there really an advantage to which dugout you are in. And in the 6 years DD has played SB and in DE tournaments, it's always just been common courtesy to allow the team to stay in the dugout they were just in. Unless the HC specifically asks to take the dugout. Also it's rare for the TD to even specify who gets which dugout based on the brackets. And with pool play, if your team is already there and has to play right after, you just stay in your dugout - it's just dumb to make the entire team and parents move. If we had to have moved and then ended up winning the championship and forced the IF game, it's not like we'd have been like - okay shift - everyone change dugouts again!

Anyway - just curious of thoughts on this.. Fun drama to end the season - I think it really pissed off their parents - probably didn't help that the ump had to tell them to turn down their walk up music so our HC could call pitches :/

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nixxy311 said:

At our fields, Home dugout is always first base side. I don't know if it's an advantage but maybe just to not be like - oh what dug-out should we take?
I do know that when we played in some MS games at HS fields, the sun was a lot worse on one side or the other. So that is the only thing I could see that would make a difference? Maybe the coach's view is better from 1st base?

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