Thread: Event Waitlist and Capacity Transparency
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Re: Event Waitlist and Capacity Transparency
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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
If you were the only team to fail to make it off the wait list, would you want to know it? Would you want that fact to be published for everybody to see?
I would be okay with this, and would greatly prefer it to sitting on a waitlist with 20 teams and only 5 spots, and missing my chance to sign up for a wait list with just 5 teams and 20 spots. I can understand the arguments of keeping things private to allow the RD to make subjective decisions based on extenuating circumstances, but I think that showing the number waitlisted teams and reserved spots is a very good compromise.
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