So the issue is;
1. You want one day tournaments Only! Because if you have any type of numbers in tournaments you will have waits.
2. I have also had complaints when teams have to play back to back all day in a one day tournament.
3. Most play in festival tournaments and played in them for many years myself and you have long breaks in most of them as well. (based on number of teams and field counts)
4. Complexes are not wanting to rent or utilize fields for one day tournaments when they can fill with youth tournaments, so yes it is going to get harder to find complexes to host adult tournaments.
5. Some parks are now making TD's rent a weekend even if they don't use Sunday so this will force TD's to have to raise entry fees and we know that won't work either.
6. We can offer one division and one day tournaments. The issue is if we can't fill the park for a full day they will give up dates to youth!
We have already looked at going back to ONE DAY with Twilight/Moonlight Coed tournaments at end of the Men's Tournaments - CALLED NO CONFLICT.
Options
1.We can go back to one day only tournaments and take the first 16 entered.
2. I guess tournaments like the Director's Cup (with new format to take care of lower teams) and Grand Slam Championships or larger States will have to be split up on different dates, which will also mean issues with Available Complexes, Umpires and for that matter staff to run tournaments.
3. If we don't get numbers and fill some of the parks they are going to give the dates we have to youth tournaments - so becomes another major issue.
4. If we have large numbers of teams at one site we can have one division come in for first half of day and next division come in 2nd half of day and top SO MANY come back on Sunday?
AS always am open to your constructive suggestions
Send me what you would like to my email (NSAREG5@aol.com) or post on the message board, then I will post a poll with suggestions.
IN September I am going to have a meeting in Kalamazoo area for all Elite/Gold teams to discuss 2015 season/Directors Cup, will post when I get date and location set up.
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