No worries Corey... all the volunteers did great! I thank you and all the volunteers for their help. Issues with operations and being short staffed should be attributed to me. I also should have known more about field managing & scoring so I could have helped Dez better, but now I know.
All in all, the event ended an hour later than planned (7pm instead of 6pm) so I don't consider that too bad. Twelve hour days are long though. Yes, match turnover was within spec (7 min) but we were approximately an hour late with starting opening ceremonies due to field issues during practice matches. If I could go back in time I would have eliminated those two teams because they didn't show up before 9am (I wasn't sure if they were caught in traffic or whatnot... but that would have only eliminated one match anyway) and/or start afternoon matches more during lunch (I didn't want to cut lunch short like we did last year though, I feel the volunteers need that break). The refs and field reset crew were working within the time allotted.
Haha, if I could have one wish... I wish for a FIRST field that's easy to operate and reliable!!!! (keep dreaming
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