I was very happy with ASUs change to deck seeding procedures at this years nationals. Allowing check in the day before and having heat sheets ready the next morning made for a much better meet (in my opinion). I spoke to quite a few others that liked it as well, anyone else have a different experience?
To answer Phil's question, Internet check-in was available for each day of the meet in Tempe. Internet check-in ran at the same times that physical check-in was available.
The change from circling numbers to initialing was made after the difficulty the administrative team had in seeding the meet on the first day. In order to get the head sheets printed in time for the next morning, we had to have them to the printer by a certain time. With the procedure we used at the beginning of the meet, we were not going to be able to hit that delivery time. We realize that this caused some confusion and will try to avoid this if we use this again in the future.
We also looked into Lainey's suggestion of having everything be done by computer. This adds some challenges to the meet host. First, you need a large number of computers and fast Internet connections. If we had 10 computers set up to handle this, each workstation would have had 190 people visit it each day. Because many of our members are not comfortable on computers, each would have had to have a volunteer working with the workstation.
I am not sure what the best solution is. Any time you work with numbers of 1000 to 2000, things become very complicated and take much longer than expected. The Championship Committee will continue to work towards improving this and other aspects of our championship meets.
Thanks for the feedback,
Mark Gill
Meet Director
To answer Phil's question, Internet check-in was available for each day of the meet in Tempe. Internet check-in ran at the same times that physical check-in was available.
The change from circling numbers to initialing was made after the difficulty the administrative team had in seeding the meet on the first day. In order to get the head sheets printed in time for the next morning, we had to have them to the printer by a certain time. With the procedure we used at the beginning of the meet, we were not going to be able to hit that delivery time. We realize that this caused some confusion and will try to avoid this if we use this again in the future.
We also looked into Lainey's suggestion of having everything be done by computer. This adds some challenges to the meet host. First, you need a large number of computers and fast Internet connections. If we had 10 computers set up to handle this, each workstation would have had 190 people visit it each day. Because many of our members are not comfortable on computers, each would have had to have a volunteer working with the workstation.
I am not sure what the best solution is. Any time you work with numbers of 1000 to 2000, things become very complicated and take much longer than expected. The Championship Committee will continue to work towards improving this and other aspects of our championship meets.
Thanks for the feedback,
Mark Gill
Meet Director
