I really wish I would have saw this post before hand. I saw a tournament that looked like it could be good for my little brother and a chance to get to hang out with him, since I live in Kansas City and he lives in Minnesota. He drove down from Minnesota (about 10 hours) to come wrestle in this tournament, and it was absolutely terribly run.

We showed up at 6:00AM for weigh-ins and the person that was supposed to be there didn't even show up. Someone finally showed up at about 7:00AM to weigh kids in.

After that, once wrestling finally started, half the kids didn't even show up, which means there were a lot of forfeits, and obviously the tournament people didn't look to see who weighed in and adjust the brackets accordingly.

On top of that, the mat workers had never seen a wrestling match in their life, had no clue how to work at a table, didn't know what the points were for, and didn't know how to read the brackets to get the right kids to the mat. I ended up having to help them half the time, because they had no clue what was going on.

The refs did really well in Folkstyle, but it looked like half of them had never refereed a Freestyle match before, as they had to keep asking the ref on the mat my brother was wrestling on for help on how to score certain moves.

Overall, I am fairly dissatisfied with this tournament, and feel sorry I had my brother drive down from Minnesota to wrestle a whole 4 matches (2 in Folkstyle and 2 in Freestyle), where only one of his matches was competitive.