Mr Hosey,

you should know by this time in the season that very farely do kids tournaments get started on time, whether this includes weigh-ins or not is a mute point. Its not the end of the world that weigh-ins started 30 minues late and as I said if that was the only problem wrong with the tournament then I would say it was pretty much a success.

Let me reinterate my statement above. Kansas Kids have stated the rules above listed by Mr. Broadbent, however they also recognize that sometimes these minimums cannot be attained and still fall under the other rules concerning no morethan 12 hours of wrestling a day, cannot wrestle past 9 o'clock and so on. So the above rules that Mr. Broadbent listed are in fact guidelines more than rules. Every senior official I have worked has said the exact same thing. It's just too bad that this is the way it is. To avoid having to go to the same site every year for districts and sub-districts they are sometimes placed at facilities that are not neccasarily capable of conforming to certain regulations. As an official I really don't care about the whining of parents over such issues. Your never going to have it the way you want it because you ask too much. You want full mats for your kids but you want to be out in decent time. Lets just assume that Ottowa did have full regulation size mats. Currently they had 14 wrestling surfaces in the morning. Had they chosen to give full mat sizes you could expect to maybe have 8 or 9 surfaces instead. Do the math. Without the 5 extra sufaces thats another 50 matches (in this stournament as most mats whent to about 50 matches). Divide those matches over the remaining thats almost an extra 30 matches per mat. Figure at the most 10 matches per mat per hour thats an extra three hours you could possibly have to stay there. Now heres the kicker! That was only for the morning session. Think if they wouldn't have had a split session, And your talking about full 28ft circles for the upper kids. You can just imagine how late and how long you're 6 year old would have been there. What im saying is you really should consider everything before you go critizising a club for all the hard work they put in. I've been to several bigger facilities with enough room for full mats and they still took several more hours to complete the tournament and they were very unorganized. The reason why every club gets the opportunity for a bid is that it would be unfair to send these tournaments to the same location year after year and allow one club to rake in all the money. I'm not going to say anythign else on the subject because what needed to be said has been said. No more whining please, unless you are prepared to help in changing the status quo (that means parents and spectators), then this is something you should keep to yourself.