The Black List

[GROWL]

This is my suggestion. The IHC message boards are very informative and a great tool for our sport. As a tournament director from time to time, it would be nice to know if a team has a bad track record for not showing up to a tournament. The obvious solution would be to get money up front or take credit cards, however as a coach I know what it is like for a team to exist week to week and it is not like most teams have reserves of money laying around. Parents in our sport expect to show up and pay the day of a tournament. It sucks, but it is what everyone expects. That said I'd just like a place to vent and even better, find out if a team is likely to pull a no show and make tournament day hectic. I hope tournament directors can use this avenue to report teams or coaches who abuse the system.

That said, allow me to post my first team who called us weeks in advance and confirmed as recently as the morning of our Growl Cup Tournament. As I was informed at our tournament, this was not the first time they have been a no-show this year.

14 U Patriots from Mt Laurel, NJ International Sports Centre

[sactosaxons]

Great issue - touchy one for sure!! Nothing worse than spending the time/energy organizing a tourney, getting that all-important schedule published only to have a team no-show. Nothing like pulling together that last-minute fill-in team or revamping the schedule, huh? Teams that do abuse the system should suffer some consequence. How do others handle this? How does a "blacklist" stay informative instead of harmful? How many no-shows to qualify for listing? And how does a team get off the list? Are there other ways to help/protect tourney directors?