--- In quizbowl_at_y..., "sdwebb91984" <sdwebb91984_at_y...> wrote: > Besides, who decides what is fair in getting a tournament scheduled? A > five-panel board. Ok, what are their guidelines? Basically, the > FAIREST way about it is first-come first-serve, which is the existing > system. All this panel would do is officially notify other tournaments > that there is another tournament already scheduled, something that > this board is fairly capable of doing on its own. If a team chooses to > host a tournament when they KNOW that there is another tournament, > they should just accept that they won't have ideal turn-out. > > The only alternative would be restriciting each geographic region to > one tournament per weekend, which gives certain teams monopolies on > play for a given week, while putting other teams at a severe disadvantage. > While a few folks have done a good job and pointed out the troubling aspects of enacting Phil's concept, the expansion in the number of tournaments does greatly reduce the potential of tournaments hosted by the more geographically remote teams. Some schools (like Cornell or Virginia Tech) are located between clearly defined "regions". For those schools who don't neccessarily have a group of 4-5 nearby rivals within an hours drive, the idea of geographic regions can be about as arbitrary as the way CBI groups teams. There is definitely a Boston region and a DC region and a California region and a Florida region, but where do you draw the lines? When I played at Cornell, usually we would gravitate to the Boston/NE area, sometimes to DC/Philly, sometimes to Canada or Pittsburgh/Ohio. While it gave us more options in attending tournaments, schools from those regions sometimes didn't consider our tournaments in Ithaca to be "local" and we faced conflicting events bidding for the same teams, even when we announced our plans first. (simultaneous NAQT sectionals in Hanover NH, Philly, Pittsburgh, and Ithaca; direct conflicts between Cornell and Boston U on a few occasions; I'm sure some other schools have similar experiences.) I'm not advocating anything here; I'm just saying that there are some real obstacles faced by successful programs trying to host tournaments and the "first come-first served" system doesn't really work for them.
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