The glasses table, volunteers, and event staff

[Siri]

Originally Posted by Jaxom

Keep thinking, but I don't think that's the solution. And while you're thinking, just show up for your practice matches at next year's CMP 10 minutes early.

Our biggest struggle with this is how crowded and difficult it is to queue to the practice field. This isn't a volunteer issue. I think it's a pure layout problem, but it's difficult to be early when there's no where to be. We went 10 minutes early every time and often ended up stationed in the middle of the aisle for part of it. More than once I saw teams in trouble for being "late" when in fact they were on the other side of the field or separated by lots of people weaving through them.

It's almost like, in addition to more room, we need a practice field meeting to--explain queuing procedure for the real and wooden fields while actually standing on them. Explain why being early matters. I think it'd save a lot of "where are we supposed to be?" "but we're not late, we were right there!" and "we tried to come earlier, but it was so crowded".