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Originally Posted by BrendanB
"Shortchanging"
Explain that to the team at a district event you gave the same number of unbag hours to but no practice matches?
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District teams, at least at every district I've been to get practice matches. They just aren't scheduled.
At Districts in Michigan, Thursday nights, in addition to load-in and inspections, teams who have been inspected may get in the queue and get put into practice matches on a first-come-first-serve basis. And I don't think I have ever seen a team get into one of these queues that did not get a chance to play at least 1 match (unless they showed up like 5 minutes prior to closing that is).
Not all teams can take advantage of this at their first event as some are still not finished with inspection until Friday morning (we've been this team a few times), but by their second event almost all teams get the opportunity to have a practice match or two.