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                                                                catsfan1
                                                                            
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                                Dec 4, 2011 10:11am
                            
                        
                                In all the years I've followed wrestling I have never witnessed such incompetence in running a tournament.  These people have no clue what they are doing.  They ran 32 man brackets on four mats while two mats went unused.  Throughout the day there were stretches of 10-15 minutes of empty mats while they tried to figure out what they were doing.  This resulted in kids waiting around for 4-5 hours between matches and finally finding out they couldn't wrestle because their opponent's bye counted toward the five match maximum.  There was no system like a Medina board to enable coaches and fans to know when and where a wrestler was going to wrestle and brackets were rarely updated.  All in all it was a terrible experience for wrestlers, coaches, and fans and is the type of situation that turns people off from the port.  I would highly reccommend finding another tournament for your team.:thumbdown::thumbdown:
                            
                        
                                        
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                                                                Con_Alma
                                                                            
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                                Dec 4, 2011 10:47am
                            
                        
                                I do not believe that byes count toward the 5 match maximum.  Forfeits, however, do.
                            
                        Fab1b
                                                                            
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                                Dec 4, 2011 11:10am
                            
                        Con_Alma;1000361 wrote:I do not believe that byes count toward the 5 match maximum. Forfeits, however, do.
That is correct