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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Know nothing about this tournament, or anything about the people running SAC, but I would say let's try to keep in mind how rapidly things have been changing the past week in DMV. After months and months of loosening restrictions, these counties started going the other way, there is no consistency between counties in MD. I guess we should have seen it coming after last spring and all the warnings about winter, but it still seems to be happening fast and furious, just days before tournaments. No idea about the refund--you should get whatever the COVID refund policy was--just saying I feel like there are generally good people at many clubs with the late fall tournaments running around with their heads cut off trying to salvage what they can with the hand they were dealt. The email list is likely just a basic admin thing that you are on from registration and nobody has had the time to go in and delete teams. Ideal, no, but I'd cut them some slack. My two cents. I honestly don't know a single person at SAC so you can cut any jokes about an inside person. Just trying to be reasonable.

I agree with the spirit of this. Their tournament ended up being garbage. I'm sure the organizers are as upset about this as the teams are. Also, realize these tournaments are major fundraisers for clubs. They likely can't take the hit of a full refund within days of the event after they have started incurring costs. Everyone signing up knew there was a risk.

I'm sure the continued emails are just administrative oversights. I manage a Virginia team and got an email from them asking for a team to join last minute because another team had pulled out due to COVID. This was after the Virginia teams were given the boot. I thought it was odd, but it didn't piss me off. It was like 10 seconds of my day.

I hope the clubs pressure them to make sure the partial cancelation was truly warranted. But if it really was due to local pressure it's kind of the risk we're all dealing with now.[/quote]

I'm not accusing anyone of being an insider at the club, but I don't think you are considering that our team/club may also be facing financial issues, and that, in addition to not getting a full refund, we had to deal with a lot of blowback from parents.   They can handle it how they want, and I am sure they are facing problems too, but we don't think it was handled well and don't want to be part of a future tournament with them, likely ever.  That doesn't seem unreasonable to me.[/quote]

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