 Soccer players have been practicing, playing, preparing all summer long for Bemidji's premier tournament. Get ready for plenty of action this weekend for the 6 versus 6. Paul and Bay blowout. You'll see teams from Minnesota, even North Dakota, including Thief River, Grand Forks and Detroit Lakes. In the course of variety of Bemidji teams, coaches very hands off and kids get to pick who they want to play with. A very fun environment and lots of soccer with a little twist to change things up. We operate something called the 6 versus 6. So it's kind of a small side. You think of a 3V3 basketball court type tournament. This is 6V6, normal fields 11V11. So we, we compress the size it's played on a smaller field. There's no offsides. There's obviously fewer players on the field so everybody gets to touch the ball a whole lot more. It's a lot more fun. It's really fast. You came out, you'd see six, seven fields being played at one time. Everything operates off an air horn. So it's, you know, 20 minutes, boom, the horn goes and the game starts. And then 20 minutes later we hit it and you get a half time. And there's lots of food and people in lawn chairs and soccer all day. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.