 This past week in Bemidji soccer hit the field for their annual Paul and Babe blowout tournament. It's not your typical 11-on-11 soccer. They had their own little twist. Thad Goff has more. This year marked the sixth annual Paul and Babe blowout tournament and if you were watching from the sidelines you might have noticed some smaller teams than usual. In this format we're playing 6 versus 6 versus 11 versus 11 so the fields are smaller the goals are smaller and there's only five field players and a goalie and obviously with one soccer ball and and 10 people chasing their L versus 22 you get to touch the ball a whole lot more. Each team was guaranteed three games and teams advanced to the championship round based on points. If you win you get six points. If you get a shutout you get a point and then you get a point per goal so if a team wins three to nothing they get 10 points. The team that got a zero gets zero points. Even if a team scored more than three goals they could only receive three points for a number of goals scored. A three nothing win would get you 10 points that's the best you can do. If you were to win seven to nothing it would still be 10 points so there's no advantage to all running up the score. Most of the teams are comprised of players of the same age group however there are some exceptions. The age groups we try to balance teams the best we can sometimes we have to move say under 12 girls up to an under 13 because we can have 18 girls on the roster. Even though this year's tournament didn't see the kind of growth that last year's did they were still happy with the turnout. This year we are seeing a similar number to what we saw last year we saw growth last year in the number of teams that participated and so it's getting bigger. It's a little bit of a plateau right now we're hoping to grow even bigger next year. All in all the blowout tournament was a fun time on the field. I like to being able to play against the owned a Meiji team because it's always a very competitive fun game. The best part probably was playing with friends and having a good time. From the Paul and Bay blowout tournament that golf Lakeland sports. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland public television.