[Scott Ritchie]

Just so everyone knows there was a lot of agony and thought put into these selections. I was not part of the group to choose teams but watched the process that they used. I can honestly say they tried to make the fairest and best selection criteria. They wanted for every team to be given an opportunity and gave every team that applied a chance to make it in. Due to size of our venue and it is a good venue we just can’t accept everyone. I hope that if your team was not chosen and if you are a rookie you would still take the time to attend or participate in some way or another. These guys that choose these teams are some of biggest bleeding hearts I know and for them to get this number to where it is was hard on them. Thanks for the time.