So -- this weekend about 16 teams will come to play in our playpen. It should be fun to have them... their coaches are good pals and the students aren't demanding or mean. Also, having a pretty small group makes things easier... 9 rooms for parli, 5 for LD -- not bad and can be done pretty much on one floor of BNCC.
We seem to have just enough judges and the tournament will pretty much break even, which is all we can ask -- as it allows our students to compete for free.
Snooty in-state school is bringing a bunch of teams and no judges. It will cost them more to pay fees at our tournament than I paid for our house in Oregon between KQRS and NPQRDA.
Three programs that said they'd come aren't -- one's coach has a family issue, two others just flat out lied to me about going... they have the money to go elsewhere this weekend... One didn't owe us much -- but the other made several loud committments to sending teams up, as we took the long-ass drive from BN state to their craptastic city TWICE (once in the winter). They talked big about supporting their firends -- yada, yada, yada -- but, in the end -- no show. nice. I guess that makes our travel decisions easier this fall -- and keeps me from having 5 weekends in a row... not bad.
On the other hand, a program run by a new friend just got our support for their tournament next year. Hell, I'd advocate we hire at least one of their coaches to a faculty position in a couple of years... if we could convince him to move to BN state.
There are others who are currently in power in the area --- and who benefit from lots of regional support -- I suppose if we get the same budget allocation next year that we got this year, we might find someplace else to be their weekend also... that would be sad, but we can only go to theirs so often without reciprocation.
aaahh debate politics...
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