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Are the Jesters having another round of tryouts? I received an e-mail stating "due to overwhelming response" they are having a second round of tryouts. Now it's not on the web-site anymore. Maybe to many complaints....

Let's be honest here. They are looking for disgruntled quality players that were put on the B and C teams at other clubs. Not a bad business move. They just need to clarify what their intent is.

What if a parent/player who hasn't made one of these travel teams comes down this weekend to tryout and it's decided that he is talented enough to play with there A team. What do they do with him? Will the parents that were already selected for a team and had to put a deposit down to secure a spot and not be allowed to tryout anywhere else feel they were mislead? The Jesters did put the new tryout dates on the website when the e-mail went out but its no longer up. Are they having it or not? No answer from the club.

Changing the website to suit themselves is a classic Jester move. They did it last year with the 4th grade program they were giving one set of things before the money was paid and then a significantly less amount of stuff after. They changed the website to reflect new plan. If I were you I would copy the webpage when you register. LOL

Note that BOTC has "got the goods" on the Sunday, September 30th additional tryout for the Jesters program. (Remember, we mentioned that we were working with the Jesters program to bring our readers the updated information as soon as it was available!) See the BOTC Tryouts Forum for the latest Long Island Jesters tryout information or visit their web site (click on the content island entry along the right side of the display).

Point being the team played under the Jester name with players that were not on there initial Jester team and the players on the initial Jester team were left off and didnt get to play in tournament. So they pick and choose and can do this again in spring

If they play the set tournaments with your sons team (they do give you a list of tournament) and then choose to play other tournaments with another team of kids from that age group then tough. They are giving you what they advertised if you want your child to play in those other tournaments make sure he trains year round. Key in any program is winning winning brings players if your son helps contribute to wins he will always be looked for if not too bad this isn't town ball these people aren't here to make you feel warm and fuzzy.

Note that BOTC has "got the goods" on the Sunday, September 30th additional tryout for the Jesters program. (Remember, we mentioned that we were working with the Jesters program to bring our readers the updated information as soon as it was available!) See the BOTC Tryouts Forum for the latest Long Island Jesters tryout information or visit their web site (click on the content island entry along the right side of the display).

Whats with the Jesters, what are they trying to hide? Why are the old tryout dates still front and center on the web page and not the new tryout dates for this weekend? All of the links including the one mentioned does not bring you to the page you posted. Not ady to harp on it but it just sounds like they are trying to hide something and I feel they mislead the parents with kids who made the team and had to put $500 deposits down within days of being notified. That prevented the ones who played by the rules..not to be able to tryout elsewhere but now we find out we could have. I cant stand the way this clubs operates alreany and I'm with them now till the summer.

BOTC has been working directly with the Jesters - the tryout details for Sunday, September 30th are what we see on the Jesters main home page right now. Use the Jesters link along the right side of the BOTC screen - the revised tryouts details are front and center.

Maybe it's something with my computer then but I still see all the old dates. Thank you for checking.

The jesters are bottom feeders. They change the dates of tryouts to make as much $$and as possible. The 2015 tryouts were scheduled in early september and then they pushed it back to mid november. Probably didnt get enough kids wanting to play for them after what happened last summer. Would have been a low turnout. So they move it to november and get whatever kids kids are left that didnt make other travel clubs. Just want as much money as they can get their hands on. They will have very few returning players.

They change the dates of tryouts to make as much $$and as possible. The 2015 tryouts were scheduled in early september and then they pushed it back to mid november. Probably didnt get enough kids wanting to play for them after what happened last summer. Would have been a low turnout. So they move it to november and get whatever kids kids are left that didnt make other travel clubs. Just want as much money as they can get their hands on. They will have very few returning players.

Does anyone have an idea about how much it cost for the Jesters Spring season. My son made the one of the teams for next year summer and i wonder how expensive the spring season will be as well

Does anyone have an idea about how much it cost for the Jesters Spring season. My son made the one of the teams for next year summer and i wonder how expensive the spring season will be as well

Last year spring was included in the tuition, check the website to be sure for this year though.

I have called the club. I've emailed the club. I've texted the club. Nobody responds. I spoke with the coach who said the roster came from the organization. It's very troubling that no-one will get back to me, yet I have an email inviting me to join the team but my son is not on the roster. Interestingly enough that roster has already been changed at least once since it was posted. I don't know what to do at this point. It's been almost 2 weeks since I made my first contact with the director. I've emailed and left voice messages numerous times. No word since then. I figured I'd see if there are any others who haven't been contacted. My son was invited after the first tryout and we committed to the team, paid, and passed on tryouts with other teams. There was a second tryout and suddenly everything appears to have changed.

I believe the issue has been resolved. If this the same player from the other night I spoke with parents Saturday night. I will check with them to make sure tommorrow.