Doug,

Club directors make errors every week of the season when entering kids in tournaments. While trackwrestling has made management of tournament operations easier, those managing the tournaments need time to make corrections or additions. It may be easy to fix one or two problems, but it can become a monumental task to fix 20 or 30 (or God forbid 100) at a time. This is exactly what your D2 amendment is setting us up for. I was involved with running tournaments before trackwrestling and I was a big advocate of implementing this software and making it mandatory for our qualifying series. I know what it can and can’t do. Trackwrestling has gone a long way in allowing us a platform to offer better quality tournaments. However, we have identified a couple big holes in our qualifying series entry process. Like any database program, it comes down to garbage in…garbage out. The original amendment that keeps a deadline for entries, opens up registration for participant/parent review, and allows late entries for a fee fixes the holes which allows participants a chance to participate even if an error was made. The D2 amendment does not fix the holes in the system that have been identified…it only kicks the problem down the road and in turn makes the errors harder to fix.

Mark