What for dozens of years was called the Long Beach Township Beach Patrol Mayor’s Cup tournament is simply the LBTBP Cup nowadays. But for this year, more changes had taken form. No longer was it going to be a two-day tournament, or have events that mostly corresponded with the annual Island Tournament.

“We ripped off the Band-Aid this year,” said Tracey Schmidt, one of the tournament coordinators, along with Harold Buck, Josh Bligh and Patrick Craig.