Why so many early Friday games?

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There are many good 2 day events--of Course, Musty only comes to Beavercreek to get his "loaded nacho and hamburger right off the grill" fix. You can run large tournaments in 2 days if you have the fields to work with and if you run one or two age groups--this weekend in Beavercreek, the TD (not me) had 14 16U teams and 23 14U teams in playing on 9 fields and it worked (of course we had great weather). The TD did a great job organizing, scheduling, and then running the event.

I know there is tremendous "buzz" effect when a large crowd is around but in the end, you will only play maybe 5 games and that means maybe 5 different teams--in a smaller event, you will for sure play 4 times. Smaller events, for example the Best of Best played in Masssilon area have 8 teams and the compettiton is good as any where around.

 

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If we have a 5 game guarantee then there would be a reduction of 20% in the number teams any field can handle with no Friday play. In addition, your darling DD's would be playing 4 games on Saturday and 4 games leaves everyone drained for the Sunday elimination rounds and then the poor TD's will hear about that.

I suggest that you only sign up for Saturday-Sunday tournaments that have a 4 game guarantee within a hour of home.

 

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If you can play in 2 days, why use 3 unless there is a gate fee and you are trying to generate revenue.

 

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There only 8-one and half hour game slots in a typical Saturday running from 8:00AM to 8:00PM. A 5 team pool requires 10 game slots to play 4 games each; one game against each team in that pool. So a TD will need to find another field to play those 2 extra games. Under the 'No games on Friday' plan each team will play 4 games on Saturday and need access to two fields (Actually 1.25) . Is it any wonder that TD's use the Friday game slots to utilize their fields better.