A tournament weekend on the Strip moves several thousand people into the valley on a Thursday and moves nearly all of them out again on Sunday night. Rosters, coaching staff, parents, alumni, and the fans who booked a room because college hockey inside a casino corridor is a good enough reason for a trip.
The itinerary assumes everyone leaves. Almost everyone does. The weekends that do not end cleanly leave something behind that the plane will not carry home. A citation with a court date printed on it. A booking at the city detention center on Stewart Avenue, or at the county facility downtown, depending on which agency made the arrest and where it happened. An unpaid casino marker, which Nevada handles as a criminal matter under NRS 205.130 rather than as a collections problem between a visitor and a resort.
Jurisdiction is the piece visitors get wrong. A Nevada case stays in Nevada. It does not transfer to a home state, it does not lapse because the defendant now lives two thousand miles away, and a missed appearance can produce a bench warrant that sits in the system and waits for the next contact with law enforcement anywhere. People find out years later at a traffic stop in Ohio, or during a background check, or on the next trip back for the same tournament. Student athletes have a second layer of it, since a pending Nevada case can travel through a compliance office and a licensing form long after the tournament is a line in a record book.
The practical picture is better than the panic suggests. Nevada permits an attorney to appear on a defendant's behalf for most misdemeanors, which is why a Clark County defense firm whose site addresses arrests of out of state visitors is worth a travel party knowing about, particularly for the kind of charge that would otherwise mean buying a second flight to Las Vegas for a fifteen minute hearing. Markers run on their own track, and that firm's pages describe resolving them with the district attorney's bad check unit, in some cases before charges are filed.
None of this belongs on a tournament flyer. It belongs in the same note as the shuttle schedule, kept by whoever organizes the group. Before the flight home, photograph the paperwork, write down the facility name and the court printed at the top of it, and confirm the date. Handling a Nevada case from another state begins with knowing which court has it, and that detail is printed on the document most people leave in an airport trash can.