Man, I don't know if we were at the same tournament or not. We will never be back to this tournament, we had nothing but problems on our mat. No bout cards, duplicate #'s, you have no clue when you were wrestling, horrible officiating(can't speak for everyone on this we had the same guy all day), delay after delay, no brackets for champions, way too many entries for that facility. I overheard several conversations with the same thoughts.
Mr CC's Dad:
To address your issues:
1) Yes, WAY too many people for our facility. I wanted to cap our tournament at 450 wrestlers entered which would be about 400 attending when you factor in average scratches. I gave everyone the liberty of signing up online or via US Mail. My mistake! There is NO WAY to control the number of entries. Next year it will be capped at 400 and NO MAIL INS or EMAIL. It will all be done on trackwrestling and after 400 the system will turn away wrestlers. I do not like to turn away those who want to compete.
2) We had a coach meeting to verify scratches. I read every scratch off and due to using on site and remote weigh ins we had confusion. We posted the brackets and a handful of wrestlers were left off. Next year all weigh ins will be done by the club or on site on Friday night. If your wrestler isn't email verified for weigh in or did not weigh in on site they will be scratched. No questions. Again, I didn't want to turn anyone away.
3) The color toner on our printer ran out preventing a quality championship bracket from being able to be printed. I offered to mail one to anyone who wanted. A simple email request with an address.
4) Sorry about the official.
It was our first year to host in this facility. We elected to give more mat space and less bleacher space. We won't make the same mistake twice. Thanks for the feedback!! Good luck the rest of the year.
