A Plea to TDs Everywhere....
Dear tournament directors-
(before i get started, i know cooke has already ranted on this. but, i think it is really important and I want to remind people again.)
Currently, I am an assistant coach, a regional coordinator and a member of the NUMP. It has become increasingly more and more frustrating to find results for tournaments this year thus making it difficult to vote on the NUMP, scout for my team, and eventually, seed for regionals/sectionals. I am begging Tournament Directors to at least have pool play brackets and championshp brackets up on the score reporter. There are only three, THREE!!!!, tournaments this spring that have both up with 90% of the scores (or just a W-L) filled in. Congrats to those who ran FWC (Florida) Presidents Day (UCSD), and Stanford Invite (missing chump bracket, but pretty damn good, Cultimate). I personally thank you.
Some tournaments have nothing (no pools or brackets) up on the score reporter: SB invite, mardi gras (eh, i kind of cut you guys some slack...24 teams is big), Chucktown Throwdown, Wooster (just happened, i understand)
Some tournaments have no scores at all reported but pools and brackets are there: Hellfish
Some tournaments have pools, but no brackets: QCTU (lots of missing pool play scores), Hendrix, UCLA Invite, Atlantis (just happened, i understand)
Deciphering Sunday results without a bracket is tough.
(In my mind, vegas is moderately off the hook because the 32 team pool play option/bracket on rodney is probably a mess. I am sure there was some ridiculous rant about it on RSD. )
The RRI is also a mess (not that anyone ever takes it that seriously), but it would be interesting to actually read if the records on there were even 50% accurate.
I almost want to offer my services. Maybe, for like 25-50$ (depending on the size of your tournament), I will spend some time to help put up your pools and brackets on the score reporter. I will try to figure out rodney for you. Then, you can hand the teams a nifty information sheet on how to report their scores on the score reporter (not to mention that as a TD you should probably collect scores as well). I understand the score reporter is not 100% user friendly, but can the nation have a little something after the tournament??? Please!?!?!?!?!?!?! So, budget that extra $50 into your tournament costs, shoot me an email, and I will see what I can do.
I know how much hard work it is to run a tournament as I have run more than a few myself. I thank all of you for running one in the first place. I also realize that there are going to be a few tournaments out there that are impossible to put up on rodney because of formatting issues or tough to prepare the reporter beforehand because of last minute drops. But, let's step it up a level and let the whole nation see what became of all of your hard work.
(before i get started, i know cooke has already ranted on this. but, i think it is really important and I want to remind people again.)
Currently, I am an assistant coach, a regional coordinator and a member of the NUMP. It has become increasingly more and more frustrating to find results for tournaments this year thus making it difficult to vote on the NUMP, scout for my team, and eventually, seed for regionals/sectionals. I am begging Tournament Directors to at least have pool play brackets and championshp brackets up on the score reporter. There are only three, THREE!!!!, tournaments this spring that have both up with 90% of the scores (or just a W-L) filled in. Congrats to those who ran FWC (Florida) Presidents Day (UCSD), and Stanford Invite (missing chump bracket, but pretty damn good, Cultimate). I personally thank you.
Some tournaments have nothing (no pools or brackets) up on the score reporter: SB invite, mardi gras (eh, i kind of cut you guys some slack...24 teams is big), Chucktown Throwdown, Wooster (just happened, i understand)
Some tournaments have no scores at all reported but pools and brackets are there: Hellfish
Some tournaments have pools, but no brackets: QCTU (lots of missing pool play scores), Hendrix, UCLA Invite, Atlantis (just happened, i understand)
Deciphering Sunday results without a bracket is tough.
(In my mind, vegas is moderately off the hook because the 32 team pool play option/bracket on rodney is probably a mess. I am sure there was some ridiculous rant about it on RSD. )
The RRI is also a mess (not that anyone ever takes it that seriously), but it would be interesting to actually read if the records on there were even 50% accurate.
I almost want to offer my services. Maybe, for like 25-50$ (depending on the size of your tournament), I will spend some time to help put up your pools and brackets on the score reporter. I will try to figure out rodney for you. Then, you can hand the teams a nifty information sheet on how to report their scores on the score reporter (not to mention that as a TD you should probably collect scores as well). I understand the score reporter is not 100% user friendly, but can the nation have a little something after the tournament??? Please!?!?!?!?!?!?! So, budget that extra $50 into your tournament costs, shoot me an email, and I will see what I can do.
I know how much hard work it is to run a tournament as I have run more than a few myself. I thank all of you for running one in the first place. I also realize that there are going to be a few tournaments out there that are impossible to put up on rodney because of formatting issues or tough to prepare the reporter beforehand because of last minute drops. But, let's step it up a level and let the whole nation see what became of all of your hard work.
posted by Mccants at 4:39 PM
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