And, as I can testify from direct experience, cell phone numbers
would be extremely handy to a TD when a tornado hits the tournament
site while the teams are in route.
Tom
--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, dpucollegebowl <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> One thing I'm a little surprised people do not include in their
> tournament posts more often is a cell phone number, so that teams
> running late might call the TD and say "We're still coming, we
> apologize for the delay", in order to avoid what happened to
Charlie
> and Florida State over the weekend. I think it might be a good
> thing to include since everyone and their brother has a cell phone
> these days (the odds of an entire 4-person team not having one are
> getting slim, I'll wager). It might also be something that a TD
> asks for beforehand, so that he or she might call tardy teams and
> find out whether they should start or not.
>
> Stan J.