2017 Miami Valley Regional (formerly Queen City)

[Jimmy Nichols]

Just registered. Open capacity was 35, was 31 when I clicked register, was 21 after I registered and is now...Crashed.

[mathking]

I tried to register, and crash. I am infuriated right now.

[guniv]

We got registered before the Great Crash Part 2. Remains to be seen if they will reset.

[Jimmy Nichols]

Opening back up. Now at 18 spots left.

[aciarniello]

Hope all that need to get in to MVR can! Sadly, Week 2 is a conflict for a major event at our school so we'll be missing out on competing at MVR this year.

I intend to volunteer and bring a few Beaks along with me.

Good luck to all attempting to register!

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by aciarniello

Hope all that need to get in to MVR can! Sadly, Week 2 is a conflict for a major event at our school so we'll be missing out on competing at MVR this year.

I intend to volunteer and bring a few Beaks along with me.

Good luck to all attempting to register!

Awesome! Yeah it was either that weekend or the same weekend as Buckeye. This year was hard.

[mathking]

Well, we finally got in. 26th try. Took about 40 minutes. Ugh! Now we can start focusing on more interesting tasks.

[Hadi379]

379 is in for the MVR! See you all in week 2...

[Jimmy Nichols]

The planning committee met last week and decided to clear the waitlist. We have 7 teams on it.

[Michael Hill]

By "clear", is that everyone who was on it is in? Or nobody who was on the wait list is in? I don't see any new teams on the team lists (which is why I'm asking)

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by Michael Hill

By "clear", is that everyone who was on it is in? Or nobody who was on the wait list is in? I don't see any new teams on the team lists (which is why I'm asking)

Clearing the waitlist always means letting the teams in. How the process works is the teams are emailed and asked if they want to still go and then FIRST waits for a response. As the teams respond then they are added. Our initial number of open spots was 35 and we are currently at 37 so 2 teams have cleared the waitlist and been added. We are opening it up to 45 now, 7 waitlisted teams plus 3 open spots, and still holding back 5 spots for late registering teams.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Nichols

How the process works is the teams are emailed and asked if they want to still go and then FIRST waits for a response. As the teams respond then they are added.

That's different from how it works elsewhere.
How come you decided to query teams before pulling them off the waitlist?
Is there a historic problem with admitting teams not really intending to come?

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

That's different from how it works elsewhere.
How come you decided to query teams before pulling them off the waitlist?
Is there a historic problem with admitting teams not really intending to come?

Not sure, that's how its worked as far as I know. Whenever our team has been on a waitlist that is how we have always come off the waitlist into an event. My assumption was they wanted to make sure the team still wanted to go vs. having the intention to go elsewhere or not go at all.

[Mark McLeod]

Regional differences I guess. I'd just never heard of it before you mentioned it.
We just came off a waitlist here in NY and I just got the standard automated "you came off the waitlist" message.
My direct experience with waitlists is limited to East Coast events.

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Regional differences I guess. I'd just never heard of it before you mentioned it.
We just came off a waitlist here in NY and I just got the standard automated "you came off the waitlist" message.

Different Regional Director. I'm sure each have their own preference for how they do it. Maybe a team who has come off the list can let us know. Our Planning Committee has no authority over that. The RD handles all of it.