There is a lot of work involved in running any Tournament. It is a 365 day a year job for some that want to take their Tournament to the next level. One of the first things I wanted to do was get a better Website, It is still a work in progress but we are getting there. We post Teams as soon as we can when a teams registers. On October 24th we plan on being pretty busy. We also have a dedicated person that will be available that will be working till 10:00pm to answer any registration questions on the phone. Having all this cost money.
The next thing we wanted was the Schedules to be posted online. This takes hours and hours to do, but we do it. After you input it into your website, all of a sudden a team drops out or something happens and you have to adjust on the fly. Lots of work again. Probably the hardest thing is entering scores into a website. You have to have multiple people do this. Last year we only had one person and we were only able to get 3/4 of the scores in. This year we are bringing in a paid College intern to help us with this. Pretty much on Sunday you are sitting at the computer inputting scores and Schedules all day long. The benefit is for all the Coaches, Parents and College Coaches that come to your Tournament. Everyone with Smartphones no longer have to go looking for the board to see schedules and scores. I was amazed by how many people were taking notice that we did this last year! We feel this is a benefit of Aunt Rosie's. We are not perfect but we feel we are offering something that a lot of other Tournaments are not.
We also Have a Facebook Tournament page that we keep our Fans informed with Scores, Pictures, Schedules, Weather Updates. Again this takes volunteers. I don't think TD are opposed to informing Teams this information, they don't have the manpower.
( There are also tournaments that do not post the pools because their tournament is not drawing the type of teams that it advertised and they don't want to let everyone know that fact.)
This Comment is so true! We have a local Tournament that boasts 100 Teams enter their Tournament every year. They haven't had 100 teams since I been running Aunt Rosie's in three years! Drives me nuts that they are not telling the truth!
Dave Myers
Aunt Rosie's International Tournament Director
Buffalo/Niagara Fall NY
716-628-8600