GSWS - General Questions

You must qualify with your team from one of International Pride Softball’s 56 Member Associations.

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Please send qualifying team pictures to pictures@gaysoftballworldseries.com and include League & Team name as well as division.

The Gay Softball World Series, hosted in Houston, TX will start on September 22, 2025 with the closing ceremonies beginning on September 27, 2025.

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GSWS - Events

GSWS 2025 has a fantastic itinerary of events throughout the week. Check out our events page for more info!

GSWS 2025 has a fantastic itinerary of events throughout the week. Check out our events page for more information.

Friday Night Lights has become a tradition at the GSWS. Winners bracket games are played into the night, under the lights to determine who will be playing on Championship Saturday!

Information will be provided at https://gaysoftballworldseries.com in the coming weeks. Just keep an eye out

Hotels

The $500 hotel deposit is per team. At the conclusion of the GSWS each league must provide the International Pride Softball (iPride) Treasurer with receipts from the host hotel of 15 room nights booked via the provided host hotel link per team to receive a refund of those deposits. If teams decide to use lodging other than the host hotels, the hotel deposit will be forfeited for those teams. Also, teams from the host city who would not be staying in the host hotels are not required to pay a hotel deposit.

Aug. 11, 10 AM CST Via Facebook, Instagram, Email & Here! iPride Council meeting delegates will be contacted approximately 2 weeks prior to reserve their rooms.

Registration/Check In

Participant registration will allow all participants to register via an online portal where they can review and acknowledge the participant waiver, answer some demographic questions, and pay the participant fee. A registration link will be sent in an email to the address you’ve provided to your league, approximately 2-3 weeks prior to the GSWS.

Registration links will be distributed to the team point of contact listed in the NAGAAA Database.  This contact is most likely the manager of the team. 

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  • All participants MUST be checked-in prior to the scheduled start time of the first game of Double Elimination games in the division that they are participating/playing in to be eligible. Meaning, if they play or support a team in D, they must be checked-in prior to the first scheduled double elimination game for ANY team in the D division (not for their team, but any D Team), typically by 7:30am local time on Thursday (for B, C, D, E, LD, and LC).

Check-In will be available at the Royal Sonesta Houston Galleria on Sunday, Sept. 21 from 10 am until 4 pm. It will also be available on Monday at the Royal Sonesta Houston Galleria from 9 am until 3 pm. Check in will be available at Opening Stampede until 9:00 pm.

Tournament

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GSWS rules will be found HERE. An email will be sent out to all Coaches and Managers prior to games. A copy of those rules will also be provided to Coaches/Managers at the Coaches/Manager meeting.

Pool Play schedule & field assignments will not be available until Sunday 09/21 via the Sports Engine Tourney app. They will only be released after the schedule is completed and verified by the Athletics Team.

Download the SportsEngine Tourney app on your devices to keep up with scores, next game, and brackets of all divisions, https://www.sportsengine.com/. The SportsEngine Tourney App will go live as soon as we can get the schedule verified. The plan is to go live Sunday, 9/21/2025 when the pool play schedule is released. There will be NO PAPER brackets posted at any of the complexes

Yes, The Manager meeting will be held at the Royal Sonesta hotel in the main ballroom. The meeting will be held on Monday, 9/22/2025 starting at 2 PM sharp!

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There is no pick-up player list for the GSWS. Players, except for the A, B and Legends divisions must play with a team in your league. There are limited exceptions to this rule. Please contact the commissioner of the league you are registered and play in for more details on teams looking for players for the tournament.

  • Pool play field assignments will not be available until Sunday 9/21 via Sports Engine Tourney app.  Assignments will only be released after the schedule is completed and verified by the Athletics Team.

International Pride Softball utilizes pick a stick as a fair play tool, ensuring that everyone uses the same equipment. Bats will be attached to the back of the backstop on bat racks or will be placed in buckets. No Pick A Stick bats can be brought into the dugout, or it will result in an immediate player suspension. Also, no personal bats can be out or visible in the dugout at any time, this will result in an immediate ejection.

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Double Elimination games start for most divisions at 7:30 A.M. on Thursday. Check your division schedule to find your actual start time for your division.

This information will be released once rosters have been submitted and roster lock has occurred. We will then know what teams are coming to the GSWS. This is usually announced via social media, so be sure to follow all that’s happening at https://www.facebook.com/2025HoustonGSWS

B, C, D, E, & Legends D divisions should be prepared to start pool play games on Tuesday. The only exceptions to this would be for the Legends C and A divisions, who should be prepared to start pool play on Wednesday. This is subject to change. A final determination of division starts will not be made until roster lock has occurred just a couple of weeks prior to the GSWS in September.

The final determination of when each division will start will not be made until the final schedule is completed just 2 weeks before we all arrive in Houston in September.  All teams in all divisions, except for the Legends C and A divisions, should plan to start play on Tuesday.

There are multiple complexes located throughout the Houston area. Once all those details have been worked out we will be updating that information here.

These MUST be picked up at the coaches meeting on Monday.

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YES – We will be awarding the first time GSWS medals again so please inform your iPride Softball representative that you are attending and they will provide a list of all first timers to us. We can’t wait to see you in Houston!

YES!

Water will NOT be provided at the fields.