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@anotherparent posted:
Most big 5-day tournaments are fully using all their fields from 8 am to 10 pm (and then there's rain). I don't know how you could build a schedule any other way than 1 game/day. If you put teams 2 games/per day, would you only use local teams the first 2 days? I'm sure local teams would rather play non-local competition. Would you have long-distance teams sit idle for 2 days on Friday-Saturday?

This. Easy recent example is PBR NPI this month. Rain doesn't impact LakePoint, but lightning does. So with only lightning delays, they had games starting at 11:30 PM or later two nights in a row. We had one last year that ended at 1:30 AM. That's just brutal on the players, the umps, and the officials.

Only way to have shorter tourneys oftentimes is either more fields (which is a finite resource) or smaller fields. Both = less profit.

6/21/219:41 AM

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