DERBY NOVICE CHAMPIONSHIPS SUNDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It is that time of year again!! The Derby Novice Championship is just around the corner. The flier is on trackwrestling.com under THE NOVICE CHAMPIONSHIPS--You must PRE-PAY online this year. We will not accept checks.

**** THIS TOURNAMENT IS FOR FIRST YEAR WRESTLERS ONLY AND KANSAS WRESTLERS ONLY****

No previous wrestling experience prior to November this season, This means that the 2016-17 season must be your 1st year as a wrestler.

Violators will be removed from the tournament. Please do not put us in a position to remove a kid from the tournament. Parents and coaches you know how this works, please do the right thing!

Home site weigh-ins: NO WEIGHT ALLOWANCE, YOU MUST MAKE SCRATCH WEIGHT AND YOU MUST WEIGH-IN!! Weigh-in information (especially weight changes, HWT exact weight, and scratches) must be submitted to steven.foster31@yahoo.com by noon Saturday, Feb 11, 2017.

You CAN weigh-in Friday night,

Any further questions contact Craig Lindsey Derby Wrestling Club 316.990.4142

Register at trackwrestling.com

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Registration is open! Remember homesite or other tournament weigh-ins. We will need: weight changes, scratches, and exact weight for heavy weights as soon as possible. All weigh-in information is due by noon Saturday.

Thank you,

Craig Lindsey

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First and foremost, thanks for running a great tournament and addressing the club(s) who ATTEMPTED to break the rules.

Perhaps a rule to consider for next year.
A Club who KNOWINGLY enters a wrestler that PARTICIPATED in a prior year tournament will be suspended the following year.

Great tournament! Not sure it can be done any better than that!

Chawkico -- We have discussed the option of banning those clubs who violate our rule. One issue with this option is that in many clubs each parent enters their own kid, so the one cheating parent could cost several honest kids not to participate.

1) we are going to check the clubs closer who have had problems
2) going to release brackets sooner on Friday to allow parent/coaches more time to "help us check" by looking through the participants in the bracket prior to tournament starting.
3) not closing door on banning but would like to try other options so 1 bad apple doesn't spoil it for all.
4) Open to other suggestions

I will tell you that the club involved today had 2 incidents and I spoke to 2 different coaches. Each coach handled it differently, I hope the one who saw the big picture and agreed 100% with us will have a bigger impact on how things are handled with their club in the future. If not a ban may be in order

Thanks for coming and thanks for your input!

Craig

Here is another option. Eliminate novice tournaments completely. Go back to the old way of every is in the same tournament. This would eliminate the trophy hunting parents from entering novice tournaments. Not saying anything about the way it was ran. Knowing Derby it was a very good tournament. But the system is being abused so lets eliminate the system.