I know that you’re curious about such things, so I’ll pass
the info along. Rather Large Bronx opened registration yesterday, and now has enough
entries to fill a battleship. Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
Like all good tournaments (and you know this of course
because you are a sworn follower of my Tournament Director’s Toolkit),
everything starts off as waitlist. This keeps out the riffraff, which all major
tournaments attract despite any preventative protestations in the invitations.
USDA-approved entries only? Yeah, but, we almost always pay and won’t cause
much trouble until round three at which point our freshman PFer will slip on a
papaya and break his whatsits and his parents will sue you until your school
has nothing left but a leaky water fountain, half a piece of yellow chalk and
the faint but pungent small of chlorine, while our judges will all disappear as soon
as the sun is over the yardarm and the bar opens. Modern waitlist management,
and best practices, demand that you wait a couple of weeks before clearing the
waitlist, giving enough time for everyone to get a chance to register,
including the handful taking that late vacation in the Norwegian fjords, and
then choosing evenly amongst the pack rather than favoring those who clicked in
first. The thing is, clicking in first is not a warrant for guaranteeing
admission. Any clown with a clock can click in early. Clicking in wisely is
better. With names, better yet. With judges, even better still. You’re bringing
the max in every activity and want to hire 100% of your judging? I wonder how
that will float with the Bronkwegian powers that be.
Speaking of which, am I the last person to learn that a
person from Manchester, England (or, as theater buffs would put it, Manchester,
England, England) is a Mancunian? How did this escape me for my entire
lifetime? I could have used this information. Maybe I was so taken by
Glaswegians that I got stuck like a broken record (which, if you’re young, is a
phrase you can Google). Damn. You learn something every day (or every other
day, if your attention tends to wander).
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