Blue Chip Showcase
Women U13-U19: April 11th-April 13th, 2025
Men U13-U19: April 25th-27th, 2025
About
The Nike Blue Chip Showcase has been in existence for over 25 years and has become recognized as the Premier College Recruiting Showcase in the Midwest and one of the top College Showcases in the country.
Kings Hammer SC welcomes more than 650 teams from across the country and internationally to compete in the Nike Blue Chip Showcase each year. Over 400 College Coaches attend the Blue Chip Showcase each year to scout players from around the country and Canada. This event brings in elite clubs from across the United States and Canada. These teams also come from many of the top youth leagues around the country, including the ECNL, US Youth Soccer National League, US Youth Regional Leagues, SCNSL, and US Club Soccer National Premier Leagues.
The Nike Blue Chip Showcase will be hosted at the Warren Co Sports Park in Lebanon, OH, and Voice of America Park in West Chester, OH! Two of the best soccer-specific facilities in all of the Midwest, located just 15 minutes apart, both facilities provide high-quality playing surfaces along with convenience to many local attractions for teams and families.
Event Highlights:
- Over 650 teams from across the country and Canada participate each year.
- Highest ratio of college coach to player of any event in the country.
- Expanded Field of Teams accepted to include appropriate levels of competition for all teams. Multiple divisions in an age group/gender to promote competitive balance.
- Comprehensive player profiles for teams through SportsRecruits
- Host over 100 league matches during the event each year.
- USSF Certified Referees.
- GotSport Scheduler used to avoid coaching conflicts.
PLEASE NOTE: The Nike Blue Chip Showcase is played over 3 days and is open to elite level U13 – U19 teams.
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- U13/U14 will be tournament format with a championship game. Most Teams will play Saturday and Sunday, with some playing on Friday evening as well.
- U15-U19 will be showcase format with all teams playing 3 games. This means each team will only play 1 game per day (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) to allow players to maximize their talents in front of the college coaches. All U15-U19 teams will play on Friday. Friday games will begin at 8 am.
Team Eligibility: Rosters: All teams may roster up to 22 players.
DURATION OF GAME:
U15-U19 2-40 minute halves
U13-U14 2-35 minute halves
ACCEPTANCE:
- Team Payment has been received.
- Team Hotel has been booked through the event housing coordinator. *Teams may be conditionally accepted prior to their housing being booked.
Fees
U13/U14 – $1,100
U15-U19 – $1,595
For the Fall 2024-Spring 2025 playing season the event did not raise team entry fees.
All teams Must pay by credit card.
Clubs who are sending 5 or more teams to an event may contact the Event Director to inquire about a check payment option for the club.
A 3.25% credit card processing fee will be applied to all applications using a credit card for payment.
A $20 Gotsport Software Fee will be added to the final amount for both credit card and check options.
Contacts
Tournament Director:
midwestcincyevents@kingshammersbd.com
Housing/Hotels: Site Search
support@sitesearchllc.com | 502-292-3198
Referee Assignor: Jim O”brien
jimsoccer69@yahoo.com
Sponsorship Opportunities: Brent Paulson
Blue Chip Showcase ID Camp
The Blue Chip College ID Camp is an opportunity for players participating in the Blue Chip Showcase to train and play with College coaches prior to the tournament. A limited number of players will be selected for the ID Camp and it will be held the Thursday before the tournament. These players will be divided into teams and each given College Coaches to coach their team in a training session and 60 minute game. All Blue Chip Showcase ID Camps will be filmed using VEO Cameras and footage will be distributed to all participants, as well as all college coaches registered to attend the event.
Blue Chip Showcase GK Clinic
What is the number one question goalkeepers get asked by college coaches during the recruiting process? “Do you have GK training footage?” The Blue Chip GK Showcase is designed to allow goalkeepers the opportunity to train in front of college coaches and receive video footage of the session through our partnership with VEO. All Blue Chip GK Showcase sessions will be filmed using VEO Cameras and footage will be distributed to all participants, as well as all college coaches registered to attend the event. Sessions will be held Friday & Saturday at 11am & 3pm.
College Coaches Participating
ONLINE CHECK IN
Online Check-In must be completed on or before 2 weeks prior to
the event weekend.
Please upload the following three (3) documents into via GOTSPORT:
- Roster: Copy of your team’s official roster. Please cross off players who WILL NOT be attending. This document needs to be a single file PDF document, no photo images.
- Player Passes:Copies of validated player/coach/manager passes issued by USYSA or US Club Soccer (rostered players and guest players) as they are listed on your tournament roster. ALL CARDS MUST BE BY THE SAME GOVERNING BODY. This document needs to be a single file PDF document, no other formats will be approved.
- Travel Paperwork: USYSA Teams traveling from outside the state the event is hosted in must get this form from their state office. US Club teams do not need travel paperwork. This document needs to be a single file PDF document, no photo images.
Guest Players:
- The player(s) must be added to the bottom of the PDF roster used for the player profiles. The team is required to have the player’s “player card” and the player(s) card must be uploaded.
- If adding guest players within 72 hours prior to the start of the tournament, you must notify the tournament staff via the event email that you added a guest player so that player can be approved. You must also submit/upload the guest player’s player pass online 1 hour prior to the start of your first game
The event will begin to review all information at the close of Online Check-In. You will only receive communication if there are issues with your check-in documents.
Please note: If you do not complete online check in your team will be held in poor standing and may be disqualified from the tournament per the posted tournament rules. There will be a $50 fee assessed at 8pm on Friday night for all teams who have not completed the check in process. Teams must go to headquarters to pay the administrative fee and complete the check in process before competing in any game.
Our travel partner Site Search is committed to providing you with the most memorable experience possible. Realizing hotel accommodations play a major role in your experience, we have partnered with area hotels to offer you the best options and prices.
Our housing manager will reach out to you within two (2) business days of applying to the event with a housing link to book reservations.
Each family from your team will then have 5 days within creating your block to guarantee all reservations.
If you are a local club (within 90 miles) and do not require any accommodations, please let me know. Please understand commuting teams will not receive special scheduling requests based on commute distance.
** The event uses the office address for the club to determine the distance of travel for the team.
Your team is NOT in compliance with the Stay to Play policy until a minimum of 7 reservations are made for all U8-U12 teams and 10 reservations are made for all U13-U19 teams.
For your team to be in compliance with the tournament rules, your team would need to meet the minimum housing requirement.
Teams may be conditionally accepted prior to their housing being booked.
If you have any questions or want to book immediately please contact
support@SiteSearchLLC.com or
call 502-292-3198
Past College Coach Attendance:
Past Events
FLIGHTS CRITERIA
Please make sure that your GotSport information is correct- your head coach (the one coaching the games) and your team name. You can log into GotSport to change what you need. This will ensure that we can try to accommodate any coaching conflicts. This MUST be completed before flights are posted.
Please click here to assign your primary coaching assignments: Coaching Conflicts
Before you request a change in flight placement, please note that the tournament committee has done their due diligence in researching the following:
- Current Registered League play
- Current/Past League play results
- Past Tournament results
- Comparison to other teams in Event
- Application information
- Requested bracket
If you believe your team has been bracketed incorrectly, please email the event staff with specific results that support your argument by our deadline stated in the flight email. Please include the following in the email:
- Team name, age group/gender and current flight.
- Scores against other teams in the event or scores from leagues or recent tournaments.
Please don’t include anything with “rankings”. We especially look at actual scores and events that teams have attended this fall/winter/spring. These are the most accurate indicators of your team’s level. Again, be specific please. It is not our goal to set anyone up for failure or to stack the deck in any team’s favor, we want the best competition for all of the teams in our event.
*Please note this does NOT guarantee a change in flight, the final decision is at the discretion of the tournament committee.
SCHEDULE CRITERIA
Please let the event staff know by submitting an email if any of the following have a appeared on your schedule:
- A direct coaching conflict within this event for coaches who coach multiple teams (up to two (2) teams). If you are coaching more than two (2) teams you must have an assistant coach.
- A major mistake ( a team playing two games at the same time or back to back games).
Although we know life happens but we simply cannot honor requests for the following reason as there are just too many:
- Travel Distance: Event staff will attempt to accommodate a teams traveling distance to and from the event, it is not guaranteed.
- Personal reasons (weddings, etc).
- Non-event specific coaching conflicts not related to this event (another team you are coaching is playing elsewhere).
All support ticket emails must be made before schedules become final.