[EricH]

Originally Posted by Aren Siekmeier

The challenge is how do we get there, and maybe adding individual regionals at first is better than nothing and a way to gradually build infrastructure.

This guy gets where a lot of folks who see behind the scenes are going.

Let me put it this way: I reffed 4/2 events I was signed up to ref this year. Basically every event within 2 hours driving. Yep. I added 2 events late (still not sure I ever ended up in VIMS for one of them).

I did some back of the envelope math, and there is no way we'd have been able to pull together enough ref crews to cover the 9 events needed for the quantity of teams involved if we'd been in a district system. On the plus side, now that the press-gangs--er, VCs and their minions--have finished recruiting for the year, there's a chance that we've got a solid core group of refs for next year...Assuming they all come back...

And that's just one of the many pieces that has to fall into place. Repeat for all your key volunteers, repeat for the non-key volunteers...