Tournament Rules
Little League uses slightly different rules during its annual All Star Tournament (the tournament that starts at the District level and winds up with the Little League World Series). The tournament-specific rules are found in the back of each year's rulebook.
Keeping track of these differences is sometimes a nuisance. As a service, here are two "cheat sheets" that contain a set of reminders as to the rules used during the Tournament. Note that not all of these are different from regular season rules, but many are rules that are not well-enforced during the regular season, or that local leagues change with "local rules."
Please remember that the information on this chart is intended as a reference summary of the various tournament rules. It does not cover every possible circumstance, and is not a substitute for reading and fully understanding the tournament rules section of the Official Playing Rules.
Note: There's been some confusion (including on my part) with respect to the change in the protest procedure for Mandatory Play violations. Last November, Little League indicated that they were going to relax the requirement that such protests be made before the umpires leave the field. When the rulebooks were published, however, they contained the same language as last year in Note 3 under section A of Protests and in rule 9c. I thus originally prepared the sheets on the basis of what was in the rulebook - that MPR violations had to be protested before the umpires left the field.
Recently, however, it was pointed out to me that Little League quietly published a revised version of the entire tournament rule section on their website. (See http://www.littleleague.org/tournamentresources.htm.) The web site version DOES have the change in it - presumably the change they neglected to make before publishing the physical rulebooks. Note 3 has been removed, and 9c reworded, in both cases eliminating the requirement that this be raised before the umpires leave the field. As a result, I've updated the sheets to match the text of the online rules. Thanks to Tom G for helping me find the online version.