West TN JV Championships

[CoachDelgado]

Complete results can be found at 2004 West TN JV City Championships on the Houstonwrestling.org website.

Edited January 26, 2004 by CoachDelgado

[usfjim]

congrats to the pseudo varsity underlings for their performance on the weekend. wished we would have seen more of the future stars from other programs.

[best_of_the_west]

Hey, that match board was absolutely spectacular. Great job Coach Delgado. I think Bill Gates is calling for some tips. Also, that guy running the computer must have been a genius...maybe a computer engineer or something. How much did y'all pay him? Well done.

Edited January 26, 2004 by best_of_the_west

[CoachDelgado]

He works for free food. I found him holding a sign out on the street corner one day. His meal of choice is yard bird limbs marinated in a variety of hot, terriyaki or spicy garlic sauces. He prefers to wash it down with fermented hops and barley malt made in St. Louis. We keep him well fed, he takes care of things at the head table.

Edited January 26, 2004 by CoachDelgado

[BayouBear]

Jose,

 

Explain the match board. I'm always looking for new ideas.

[CoachDelgado]

I created a program on computer to run like a match board. It runs with minimal effort. We then used a digital projector and projected it to a movie screen. Instead of one person assigning bouts to mats then getting two or three kids to run a manual match board (bout number cards slid across plywood), the person assigning the bouts hit some keystokes, the numbers slid over and he keyed in the bout number in the correct place.

The observation from the Cordova assistant was that there was no glare. With bout number cards, laminated or not, there is glare from the gym lights bouncing off of the white paper. The projection system had no glare and was visible from 99% of the seating area (a score clock blocked one row from the opposite end of the gym).

Edited January 26, 2004 by CoachDelgado

[best_of_the_west]

Mr. BayouBear, I was in attendance, and I can assure you that this was top-notch technology. It was easy to read, and it looked very professional. I would highly recommend that all teams with the means buy/steal this idea from Coach Delgado. It would greatly improve the flow of wrestling tournaments throughout the state. Plus, pretty much anyone can run it, as we found out.

[BayouBear]

Great Idea. I thought about doing something like it but could never figure out the exact execution. We prefer the match board over calling matches but the manpower required to run the match board is always a problem.

 

I'll get in touch with you in a few months and pick your brain if you don't mind. We are toying with the idea of making a few changes in the tournament format.

[usfjim]

He works for free food. I found him holding a sign out on the street corner one day. His meal of choice is yard bird limbs marinated in a variety of hot, terriyaki or spicy garlic sauces. He prefers to wash it down with fermented hops and barley malt made in St. Louis. We keep him well fed, he takes care of things at the head table.

translation for those not on the left side of the state: we have a dedicated, dynamic, intelligent and dare i say stunningly handsome parent who sacrifices his valuable time in assisting our quality wrestling program in running what are some of the best tournament formats in west tennessee. we salute you, mr. computer match board runner!

[BattleBornVolunteer]

"Mr. Computer Matchboard Runner" Sounds like a Budweiser Real Men of Genius commercial.

[enfuego]

Coach Delgado, don't sell out so quickly. I'm having the proper patent papers drawn up as we speak. This may eventually provide us with the same unlimited fund pool as the private schools! Sincerely, your future business manager and partner.......enfuego

[usfjim]

"Mr. Computer Matchboard Runner" Sounds like a Budweiser Real Men of Genius commercial.

ah yes, additional intelligent life forms who get my sense of humor.