I could not agree more!!! Running a Novice and Open tournament on the same day is not a good idea. I heard there were 3 teams who came in today and that was a big issue for starting late if so shame on Derby, why have deadlines if not abided by. I also heard that over 100 kids came in to weigh at 7:30 and this pushed things back as well, parents need to be more responsible and get kids to weigh in. Also some club did not turn in the right weights on pre-registration. When you have to change bouts it effects and entire mat from 1-120 matches.

I cannot belive the amount of time waited for wrestlers to come to a mat. Though it did not happen a lot it should not happen at all.!! There does not even need to be a call of so and so to mat what ever. What are these kids learning by showing up late and allowed to wrestle. Athletics are to teach responsibility and this sure does not teach responsibility. If it happened once and they had to forfeit it would not happen again.

The doors were ridiculous. Come on derby a little compassion for all please?? With all those bodies in there the auxillary gym was sweltering and it was a relief to have doors open. I am sure we will hear fire hazard or what ever and what was with B-98 music being pumped over the speakers through out the day.

Open and Novice together dont work in this big of a tournament. Maybe they should have put the Novice in the middle school and open in the high school. Just my 2 cents

But once you got rolling Derby to your credit you kept it moving pretty good.

PS DONT RUN OUT OF HOT DOGS BY NOON!!!!!!!!!!!

Parents, great job of maintaining control when it would have been easy to be impatient. Refs were great and the kids were super.