(See e-mail below from John Fiege.)
--- John Fiege <jfiege@...> wrote:
> From: jfiege@... (John Fiege)
> To: awejudo@... (David Ellis)
> Subject: Clarification Orlando Judo 3/22!
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:40:10 +0000
>
> David, could you send this out over the loop,
> please?
>
> ____________________________________
>
> Hello Judo friends,
>
> As you may have heard, there will be a Tournament in
> Orlando Sat March 22nd.
>
> Dale, Gene and myself have the intention to make it
> convenient to participants and their families as
> well as the senseis and coaches.
>
> NEW: club senseis may weigh in their competitors on
> Wednesday or Thursday before the competition at
> their own dojo. This means with a mailed in
> registration package (including: signed waiver,
> entry fee and membership number) you will not have
> to check in early in the am; just warm up and be
> ready to fight at 11 am!
>
> This should make it possible for most to drive in to
> Orlando in the am!
>
> Seniors will not fight until after 1pm, with on site
> registration of late entries ending at 12:30 pm.
> Of course we expect you to use a good quality scale
> and use the honor system. Senseis that send us the
> names and weight of participants via email by
> Thursday evening at the latest and have the entry
> packages send in postmarked 3/15 at the latest will
> receive $5 back per student at the tournament site.
> We are open about this and don't mind players and
> parents knowing about this, because we believe it's
> normal that you coaches that are traveling to help
> your players are paid for this; you deserve it!
>
> We aim to have each player have at least 3 matches;
> since a second division is only $20 that can easily
> be 6.
> We know we will have strong juniors from the Central
> and North Florida area as well as Georgia and South
> Florida. Tell all your adult players we will have
> good matches for them as well!
>
> Let's have a great tournament, we're asking for your
> support! If you could give this info to other
> coaches that may not be on the Florida email loop
> we'd be thankful.
>
> FJY championships
> hosted by Orlando Judo, Inc and Judo Ryu
> Jacksonville.
> Dale Thompson, Gene Feagle and John Fiege.
>