Just out of curiousity, why are admissions fees
charged to tournaments? If so, why are the fees much
higher than the fees charged to/by high school
tournaments?
(I recall sending two teams from my HS to
the Spotswood HS tournament in 1993 for $55. Compare
and contrast to the $150 or so it has cost to send
two teams to tournaments at the college level and the
$135 it cost me to send one team to Penn Bowl last
season.)
Academic competition is reasonably
prevalent at the high school level, surely many students
would be interested in doing this a few times a year,
if not to the level that some of you participate.
A well-funded program should charge no admission
fees to any of its tournaments. Other programs should
charge fees which are commesurate with the level of
funding that program receives.
Continuity is very
very important. It is what killed Randolph-Macon off,
I can attest to that.
Shawn Pickrell