First off I'd just like to say that this is a well ran tournament and my son's favorite to go to. The one thing that was a little disappointing this year was the belts. We were told that you guys ran out of belts and my son was given a belt from last year that had a part removed from the front because it said '2016 Champion.' I also saw one kid received a damaged belt just so he could have one. Other than that everything was good.
Next year we plan on having the belts arrive much more ahead of time so that we have a chance to inspect them all in case there are defects/mis-manufactures. During set-up we were able to go through them all and found 1 box of 10 (open belts) that were all mis-manufactured. They had the "Novice" label on them. We thought we'd still have enough to cover everyone with the new belts (open), but after the brackets were compiled we knew immediately that this would not be the case. We tried to give the Maize kids the old belts first, but I know there were a few other wrestlers that received them as well. As for the damaged belts, we offered to send them back into the manufacturer for repairs free of cost. I'm not sure if any of the wrestlers took us up on this or not. I don't think there were that many that were damaged, but through shipping and handling anything is possible.
We promise to do a much better job with this next year. Anyone that earns a belt should get one without any defects!
Glad you son enjoys the tournament and hope to see you guys again next year!
Derek
