WCD.FSA Shuffle

2 PICTURES OF WCD TOURNAMENT DIRECTORS IS ON OUR WEBSITE. BELOW, BETTY BOBER WITH FSA STATE TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR GLENN MONROE, AND FURTHER BELOW, RON & ELLIE PREVOST. THEY ARE TERRIFIC AND THANKFULLY, THEY BOTH WORK FOR THE WCD!

Tournament Directors are super valuable assets to shuffleboard tournaments. Without them, who would do the charts, figure out who plays who and on what court. Then they have to figure out complicated sub-brackets and who plays the next round and against whom? It's complicated and nerve racking to say the least. Our WCD has two wonderful people as Directors,

Ron & Ellie Prevost!

I'VE LEFT THE BELOW ARTICLE ON THIS WEBPAGE FOR REFERENCE. CLEARWATER ASSIGNED 4 PEOPLE TO REFEREE THE TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS EVENT AND WHAT A DIFFERENCE IT MADE. THE ENTIRE TOURNAMENT TOOK ON A TRUE PROFESSIONAL LOOK AND HAT'S OFF TO CLEARWATER'S OFFICERS FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN. THE REF'S HAD ON NICE BRIGHT ORANGE VEST WITH NAME TAGS. GORGEOUS!

ASSIGNED REF'S WERE: KATHY PIMENTAL, CARL ROGERSON, BOB RODMAN, AND ROGER BREAULT.

VOLUNTEERS: FSA STATE TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR GLENN MONROE, WROTE AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE ON VOLUNTEERS AND WHAT WE ASSUME IS DONE BY SOME GENIE? (Click here to read) CSC has no problem getting the courts ready for play with the great help of Teddy, Larry, George, Marty, Wink, and others. The problem begins after the tournament starts. At a State Tournament this year, World renowned Earl Ball and Henry Strong had to help sweep the courts and asked why CSC doesn't supply help so the Tournament Director doesn't have to do this, plus clean & wax the disc, bead in between games, etc. It was embarrassing for the Director to hear this from two world-wide super great players. Maybe we need to organize a bit better by having volunteers sign up for 1 or 2 hours stints so one person doesn't have to do it all and for all day long!!

Especially in State Tournaments, the Director is busy enough taking care of the tournament charts, lane position, who plays whom, 3rd calls, answer tons of questions, etc. without having to leave their post to put some beads on dried out court triangles or sweep the courts and wax disc during play and at the end of play.

The problem is not that people don't want to volunteer to do this because we have great volunteers, its that we're not organized in shifts so we spread the burden around to a few, instead of one. Let's make a plan.

FLORIDA STATE PRO TOURNAMENT RESULTS

(All Have Pro & Am Points)

(click on tournament to see final results)

P03A Oct. 17-19, 2016 Mixed Doubles at CSC

P12B Dec. 19-21, 2016 M/L Doubles at CSC

P14B Jan.2-4, 2017 M/L Doubles at CSC

P24A Mar. 13-15, 2017 M/L Doubles Fun n' Sun at CSC

P26 Mar. 27-29, 2017 Tourn. of Champs. M/L walk/non-walk (must qualify) at CSC

FLORIDA STATE AMATEUR TOURNAMENT RESULTS

A01 Oct. 24-26, 2016 Any Doubles at CSC

A05 Nov. 21-23, 2016 Amateur Singles at Pinellas Park

A06A Nov. 28-30, 2016 Any Doubles at CSC