Putting together the room pools for Penn is quite a chore. There are more buildings than you can shake a stick at, and not all of them are for the full days. There’s overlap, with VLD and Policy alternating with VPF in the same spaces on Saturday, with, I feel, a special need to keep them as closely supervised as possible so that policy people, and LDers for that matter, don’t decide to go off into critiques longer than the rounds. Each day is different, with different buildings and different time availabilities. I’ve already had people whining about the odd schedule, which allows the most people the most debates in the spaces available. The alternative would be to drop a division or two. Which ones would you drop?
Anyhow, I did Friday night yesterday. Today it will be the Saturday rounds. Catholic Charlie has already marked up the speech rooms. Kid’s stuff. All in roughly one place, no time limits. CC’s cat could have done that.
I continue to pull people off the waitlists. We’re getting maybe 2 drops a day. At this rate, the debate waitlists should be cleared by Memorial Day. People keep asking, I keep saying I don’t know. I am sort of expecting a few schools to go off in a huff when they don’t get their full contingent, which should open up more slots for the more stalwart. We’ll see. I’ve already had people in a huff complaining that they didn’t get in in the first place. Needless to say, they’re the ones who registered last week, for a tournament that opened registration 12/1.
Sigh.
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