[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Ian Curtis

Yes. I'm not much for basketball, but judging by the videos people have posted it is a time honored tradition to "cut the net" if you win. A little bit of googling tells you that championship teams do this in every basketball league from high school through the NBA. Clearly it is okay by them.

How is it interesting crowd control? It's the winning teams, it isn't saying "anyone with two feet come down and take a net!" Granted basketball teams are a lot small than your typical basketball team, so have someone cut it down and distribute the strings later. For some of the really big teams you might even have to cut the strings up!

To me, cutting a net out of toy would be like carrying around a Stanley Cup I made out of cardboard and aluminum foil. Sure it looks the part... but was it there? No, and being there was part of what made it special. I still have my alliance captain bib from when my team won our first regional, and if there were nets they'd let us keep they would've been even better mementos.

Just my 2 cents. ($5?)

Who is on the court when a member cuts the net at a game? Or... back that up - who rushes the court when a team member cuts the net at a game? There would be 3 nets and 3 teams, minimal, on the field.

From what I've seen from a few regionals, they are still in need for volunteers to help with their events. Will volunteers be in place and be available to help with the passion, excitement, and craziness that could stem from cutting the nets? What happens to the nets on the other side of the field? Do those get cut (trashed), too? Who controls that and how? And while teams are cutting their nets, are they going to be doing a victory dance on the bridges, too?

I've had a little experience with crowd control during regionals and I'm not a fan of large groups of people who don't respect crowd control and create potentially dangerous situations because of what they want to do when they want to do it, individually, and, as a crowd.

Jane