See this is what you would know if you had ever been involved in hosting a tournament. There is NO planning because all of us are limited on dates that we can access facilities. I wish it was as simple as those of you that have never hosted a tournament, make it out to be. It simply isn't!
As to your "full mats", maybe it is you who needs to steer clear of the larger tournaments because there are those out there already offering that. When you exceed the capacity of your facility that is when you have 14U wrestling on half mats and 10U wrestling on quarter mats. Believe it or not, there are tournaments out there right now wrestling on full mats for most age groups.
sorry, but sometimes you try too hard to be the voice of opposition, that you come across sounding silly. this doesn't make sense.
read your statement: "there is NO planning because all of us are limited on dates we can access facilities"- there has to be some planning, to fit in the limited date. if we all throw our hands in the air and believe it's going to fail, it will.
when did anyone say there was only one tournament with full mats? why would anyone steer clear of larger tournament because of that? believe it or chose to fight tooth and nail to be a doomsayer, there are more tournaments wrestling 14u on 1/2 mats and 10u on 1/4 mats, than there are running full mats. again having trouble following you through all this.
