"Something else that should be considered is that reading packets from fresh tournaments might also cut into the sale of those packets. Perhaps we shouldn't be reading packets in the chat room until they're at least a year old and would, presumably, be headed to the public archive." You know, the more mature the circuit gets, and the more tournaments occur, I wonder whether or not this whole "selling packs" thing is worth the few dollars it makes schools. I'm only familiar with the numbers at MN and WI, but the amount we got from selling packets was minimal compared to the entry fees. We didn't pull the stunt (at least I've always thought it was slimy) of charging contributing teams for the packets. Would it be that great a strain on schools that host tournaments to put their packets online immediately? There are probably thousands of packets that don't exist in digital form because whoever the tournament director was held on to them (I know I've lost at least two tournament's worth) and only exist in hardcopy a few places. How much is complete accessibility of future tournaments worth to your team? Or the knowledge that your finally crafted invitational packet has a lifetime of years and not until someone's hard disk crashes? At least in my opinion, enough to forfeit the small dollar amount to be gained by selling the packets. I would propose that we scrap selling invitational packets and release them to archives as soon as the tournament(s) has been completed. Would anyone go broke if we did this?
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