United Cup 2016

therealVIN, could you explain Friday check in is required? Most tournaments no longer require Friday check ins. It would save team managers an extra trip and your volunteers hours. Check in can be done an hour before the first game, when field marshals have to be there anyways.
 
Laced said:
therealVIN, could you explain Friday check in is required? Most tournaments no longer require Friday check ins. It would save team managers an extra trip and your volunteers hours. Check in can be done an hour before the first game, when field marshals have to be there anyways.
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Friday night check is mandatory. No sat check in. We have too many teams and will not be set up to check in teams at other venues. Most large tournaments do Fri check in. We may offer Fri afternoon check in as well.
 
therealVIN said:
Friday night check is mandatory. No sat check in. We have too many teams and will not be set up to check in teams at other venues. Most large tournaments do Fri check in. We may offer Fri afternoon check in as well.
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I'm trying to understand your logic.

No matter how many teams you have, they won't be at the same venue. As a matter of fact, the more teams you have, the more difficult logistically it is for everyone to have a central check in Friday. There're usually a dozen or so teams at one venue. Wouldn't it be easier for Saturday check ins?
 
Laced said:
I'm trying to understand your logic.

No matter how many teams you have, they won't be at the same venue. As a matter of fact, the more teams you have, the more difficult logistically it is for everyone to have a central check in Friday. There're usually a dozen or so teams at one venue. Wouldn't it be easier for Saturday check ins?
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absolutely not. Friday check in is the best and easiest for all.
 
Laced said:
therealVIN, could you explain Friday check in is required? Most tournaments no longer require Friday check ins. It would save team managers an extra trip and your volunteers hours. Check in can be done an hour before the first game, when field marshals have to be there anyways.
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Not saying United Cup is doing this, but the few big tournaments that still require Friday night check-in (and it's a declining number; Cerritos, for instance, didn't require it for its Memorial Day weekend tournament) often make a non-trivial amount of revenues from hotel kickbacks. I believe someone mentioned on another thread that it was the third highest revenue line-item for Surf Cup this year, after registration fees and concessions. A Friday check-in often tips the balance for a Team Manager toward staying in one of the approved hotels, especially since the Friday evening drive will often be substantially worse than the Saturday morning drive. At West Coast, they were also pushing the concessions/t-shirts hard at the Friday night check-in, which probably helped with those revenues too.

From the purely logistical perspective, one reason reason some big tournaments are foregoing Friday night check-in is because of the development of large multi-field complexes such as Silverlakes etc. That allows even larger tournaments to have some economies of scale for check-in that they can't if they are using dozens of fields. Even tournaments that have dozens of fields (e.g., OC Kickoff Classic) don't use Friday night check-in.

Of course, this means that if the market is against Friday night check-ins, there are alternatives to avoid this and eventually they should disappear. As of now, though, enough still have the drawing power to demand it.
 
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