Apologies for any cross-posting, but... As you may have seen, UTC tentatively announced Sword Bowl (our spring junior bird tournament) for Sat., Jan. 22. We then found out that there's a junior college tournament in Tallahassee that same day, with a significant overlap in target teams. We're now trying to figure out which weekend will work the best. We originally created Sword Bowl specifically as counterprogramming for Penn Bowl (figuring the best 4-year school teams would go there but that novice teams and 2-year schools would be looking for an alternative.) But with Penn Bowl's date uncertain, and with a possible issue on every available weekend, something's gotta give somewhere. So consider this a survey. I want to know which of these weekend(s) YOUR SCHOOL would definitely or probably send a "junior bird" team -- remember, that's first- or second-year players only, not counting CBCI or HCASC experience and allowing some dispensation for 3rd-year players at 2-year schools -- to Chattanooga for Sword Bowl. I do welcome comments from other interested parties, of course, but I'll give more weight to the wishes of those who would actually attend. Weekends that are definitely 100% out are: Sat. 2/5 (NAQT Sectionals is that day, and UTC is one of the hosts.) Sat. 2/12 (I'm not available that weekend for personal reasons.) Sat. 2/26 (ACF Regionals is that day, and UTC will offer to host again.) That leaves these dates, with the limitations for each: Sat. 1/8 -- This doesn't give us much time, and I don't know of other academic tournaments we could partner with that weekend. We do get packets submitted by Sword Bowl teams, but not enough. To make this a viable weekend, we would need considerable freelance help. Sat. 1/15 -- Florida and Michigan have MLK tournaments that weekend. UTC is in fact planning to descend on Gainesville en masse again this year. Sat. 1/22 -- As noted above, there's a juco tournament in Tallahassee that day. Sat. 1/29 -- The ATC Winter Open will be held that day, with Berry College as one location. Sat. 2/19 -- CBCI Regionals is that weekend. Plus if we wind up hosting ACF as well, that'd be 3 tournaments at UTC in a 4-week stretch. Sat. 3/5 -- That's the beginning of UTC's Spring Break. Please e-mail me at steinhic [at] bellsouth [dot] net to let me know if any of these weekends would work for you, and if so, which would work better than others. Thanks.
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