Re: Texas High School Championships....

That may be..., but the fact remains that with the rally system in place..
There is no way they could have done all the semis on Friday the way they
use to.  Well.. yeah, they could have... play till midnight....  The system
that was suppose to secure more "timely" schedules caused chaos.  I left the
stadium around time I've left the last 8 or 10 years I've gone to the
tourney.  One difference... I didn't see 2A or 4A semis which means I missed
4 matches that I saw in the previous 8 or 10 years.  Now, I really don't
care if it was just by chance they happen to go to the 3 day tourney the
same year they switched to ping pong scoring... the fact remains that in the
previous several years I saw more matches in the same amount of time.  Don't
get me started on the 12 points that were awarded for doing nothing by
putting the serve into the net in the first match alone I saw on Friday.
This REALLY gets me going......


"Tom Simchak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Drew, Drew, Drew........
>
> Texas had talked about doing a 3-day tourney BEFORE the switch to rally
> scoring.  I don't think one had anything to do with the other.
>
> The (one) time I went to the state tourney, I remember sitting through
> some long warm-up sessions because one match ended earlier than
> anticipated.  The tourney should be set up so that one match starts 30
> mins. after the previous one ends.  Kinda like what they do in the NCAA
> BB tourney.  Again, I do not think the switch to rally scoring had
> anything to do with long pre-match warm-ups.
>
> As for having teams sit for a day, a slight change in the format could
> easily solve that---have the smaller schools (1A, 2A & 3A) play their
> semi's on Thursday.  Six matches.  Have the 4A and 5A semis on Friday
> (early) and the smaller finals also on Friday.  5 matches, and the
> smaller schools can leave in 3 days.  4A & 5A finals about noon on
> Saturday.  Everybody's done and gone by around 4 PM.  NOW, if the UIL
> absolutely wants all finsls on Saturday, then you're going to always
> have the problem of teams staying over on Friday.
>
> Just my $.02 worth.
>
> Tom S.
>
> drew Kalapach wrote:
> > Well... I made it to the games on Friday.  I must say the ping pong
> > scoring has the tournament ALL screwed up.  First I find out that they
> > extended the tourney to 3 days from the traditional 2... So I missed
> > Class 2A & 4A.... But now I see why.  We all heard they save time with
> > these matches... Oh, yeah they did, IF they only go to 3 games which
> > every match I watched today only went to 3 games.  Then we were
> > treated to 1 hour of warm-ups.  Talk about making the tourney boring,
> > they succeeded.  Their fear of a 5 game match left the gap.  So the
> > end result is they have increased the length of the tourney with this
> > stupid ping pong game.  I feel sorry for the families that have to
> > drive clear across the state now, to play on Thursday... sit a day....
> > spending extra cash for hotel and food till Saturday... Don't forget
> > some of these people have to get an extra day off from work to see
> > their kids play.
> >
> > It was funny... As I was leaving the tourney... A guy was walking out
> > of the gym at the same time and he said to his wife next to him... "We
> > drove 4 hours to see 45 minutes of volleyball."  I couldn't help
> > myself saying "Hey... that's what you get with this ping pong game."
> > His wife just laughed.  You people that are in such a hurry to do
> > stuff these days... Let's get to the game and get it over as fast as
> > we can.  I got an idea, make the games to 5 points, that will get you
> > home quickly.
> >
> > I know this is the way things have gone, but I don't have to like it.
> >
> > SIDEOUT TILL SUNDOWN, BABY!!!  That's for me.....
>