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Having a hard time finding youth tournaments this season.  The usual places that list tournaments are dried up.  Are they being listed elsewhere or are people just cautious because of COVID?

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It seems like a lot of youth and MS programs took a hard hit to participation from COVID last year, and now we're going to have to work extra hard to build it back up as quickly as possible.  Hopefully high school programs help with this across the state, otherwise it will seriously affect the quality of all wrestling in KY for years to come.  

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Georgetown Wrestling will be hosting a Youth tournament at Great Crossing High School on November 21st....flyer to follow 

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Frederick Douglass HS is pleased to announce we will be hosting the 2021 Bronco Battle for the Bluegrass Pre-season Middle School Duals on Saturday October 23, 2021 in the heart of Lexington at Douglass in our main gym AKA "The Farm!"  

Don't miss this great opportunity to get your kids some early mat time in what will be a very competitive tournament with some of the best MS teams in KY already committed.  With the challenges the MS teams faced last year, with limited in-state tournaments, this is a can't miss event and easily accessible for everyone.  Space is limited.  

Please see the attached filer for more information and contact tcondi@hotmail.com to reserve your spot today. 

2021 BRONCO BATTLE FOR THE BLUEGRASS PRE-SEASON MIDDLE SCHOOL DUALS

DATE:                                     SATURDAY – OCTOBER 23, 2021

LOCATION:                            Frederick Douglass High School, 2000 Winchester Rd, Lexington, KY   

ENTRY TEAM FEES:             $300.00 

WEIGH-INS:                           7:30 AM – 8:30AM (Doors open at 7:00AM)

COACHES MEETING:           9:00 AM

WRESTLING STARTS:          Immediately at the conclusion of the coaches meeting.

WEIGHT CLASSES:              70–75–80–86–92–98–105–113–121–130–140–152–168–190–240

                                                Extra’s may be placed on other teams to fill empty weights.           

FORMAT:                               12 Team Dual Tournament ran on 3 mats.  Teams will be pooled in groups of 4 then, placed in 4 team brackets for the placement rounds.  5 Guaranteed Duals 

  

Bronco Battle for the Bluegrass.docx

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Tournaments are starting to come out now. Alot of them are on CYW

 

11/14 Bandits Takedown Tournament, Dixie High School

11/20 Battle in the Nest Beginner Takedown, Monroe OH

11/28 Moeller Open, Moeller High School

12/5 Oak Hills

12/12 Batavia Youth Tournament, Batavia OH  (also tentative date for Raider Rumble, not confirmed yet)

12/19 Fern Creek, Louisville KY

1/2 Harrison Youth Tournament, Harrison OH

1/9 SKIT, Simon Kenton

1/16 Mason Trophy Tournament, Mason OH

 

There are many more but these are what we have on our schedule currently 

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Hello Everyone,

Hopefully Home Grown Wrestling Club will be hosting more Tournaments soon. We are working on dates now. We are are trying not to schedule on a date another tournament is already being run and we have to work around the avalability of the venues and schools we use.

We just did a Tournemant a week ago and only had 100 wrestlers show up so that makes it hard to keep doing more. Some complained of the entry fee of $25 instead of $15 or $20. We are trying to make it afforable but also not lose money and the economy and inflation has made everything more expensive which of course causes prices to increase everywhere for everything. A small program running tournaments can't afford to lose money and anyone who hosts tournaments knows how much time and money goes into running and hosting it. We did offer discounts for teams with more wrestlers to help. As we go forward we will continue to do everything possible to keep the prices as low as we can without our team and program losing money and still making it worthwhile as a program to run them.

Unlike some programs and teams who can get stuff for free or extremely discounted and keep prices at $15 we have to pay for venues and mats we use and yes even at the high school we pay a fee either to the school directly or to the high school wrestling program at that school who allows us to use the mats and their parents and wrestlers during the tournament. We have to pay for Officials at $30 per hour per Official at a mandatory minimun of 6 hrs.for each Offical ($175.00 ea.). We have to buy mat tape, mat cleaner, Medals, food for hospitality room, food and drinks for concessions. We have to pay for a tournament director and for Track Wrestling we also have to pay USA Wrestling to sanction the tournament to be covered by USA Wrestling for insurance purposes and the list goes on from there. The bottom line is it costs alot of money to host and run a tournament and you have to have the money up front to buy and pay for everything and than hope and pray you get the money back. Anyone who runs a tournament knows there is lots of risk involved and for a small program its a huge risk to take and to do it. Most of the upfront money and expenses are non refundable so if you cancel a tournament you are out the money for lots of stuff such as the medals the food and drinks all the supplies etc. and sometimes for the venue as well. We are talking hundreds if not thousands of dollars depending on the event. 

People who don't run tournaments or who haven't run them recently don't know or seem to understand all the time and costs involved and think its price gouging or "Getting Rich" I promise you that's not the case and we don't get rich doing this. We do it so kids can wrestle and have a good experience with a safe and well run tournament with quality medals food and drinks etc. As a small Program running a tournament yes we hope to see some profit to help build our own program and compensate the team hosting it for the time and effort they put in but we don't do it to get rich and we aren't getting rich. We want to ensure kids have places to wrestle and can have fun and be safe. We do it for the kids and to help grow the sport of wrestling we don't do it for the money. If we only cared about making money we would have cancelled our last tournament when we had less than 100 kids coming to wrestle. We continued with the tournament because as long as there were kids willing and wanting to wrestle we were determined to make sure they got to wrestle even if we broke even or lost a small amount of money. 

Thank you to all the teams and programs that helped us and continue to support us. Hopefully in the future other people will understand and won't let $5 or $10 stop them from coming to a wrestling tournament so kids can wrestle and get mat time and experience.

Let's be honest most of us waste more than $5 or $10 a week on stupid stuff all the time and most of the people who wrestle spend much more money wrestling in out of state tournaments all the time and we seem to have no problem with that and lots of people and kids are willing to do that. They will spend money on hotels, gas, food and higher registration fees for out of state tournaments but for a local tournament won't go or complain over $5 or $10. Seems not to make much sense to me.

Our team and program will continue to support everyone in the State and we will continue to travel and attend your tournaments and events and we hope we can get the same support in return. In the end its about the kids and the growth of wrestling in Kentucky. We can't have that growth and success that we need in this State without helping and supporting each other.  

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Georgetown Youth Wrestling Battle on the Elkhorn.pdf

Sunday, November 21st
Great Crossing High School
120 Betsy Way, Georgetown, KY 40324
Entry Fee $15 Per Wrestler
*(Registration online http://www.trackwrestling.com/registration/TW_Register.jsp?tournamentGroupId=197110132
Payment will be due at check-in. If unable to register online contact Jonathan Strayer @ jnv858@gmail.com) Registration capped @ 350
Doors Open at 8:00 AM for spectators - Admission: Adults $5.00, Students $1.00
A.M. Session: Bantam & Novice. Wrestler check-in & weight-in:
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM (wrestling begins after weigh-ins close)
P.M. Session: Pee-wee & Intermediate. Wrestler check-in & weight-in:
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (wrestling begins after weigh-ins close) Tournament Information Pee-Wee (01/01/2015 - 12/31/2016): 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, HWT (10 lb. max diff for HWT) Bantam 8U (01/01/2013 - 12/31/2014): 43, 45, 49, 53, 56, 62, 70, 85, HWT (10 lb. max diff for HWT) Intermediate 10U (01/01/2011 - 12/31/2012): 49, 53, 56, 59, 63, 67, 71, 77, 84, 93, 105, 120, HWT (15 lb. max diff for HWT) Novice 12U (01/01/2009 - 12/31/2010): 58, 63, 67, 70, 74, 78, 82, 86, 92, 98, 108, 117, 135, 160, HWT (15 lb. max diff for HWT)
• If there are not enough for any one weight class, brackets will be combined (10% max)
• Tournament will be conducted on Trackwrestling
• 9 Certified Officials - 4 mats (8 wrestling surfaces)
• 3 - 1-minute periods
• Medals for top 3 placers of each bracket
• Team trophies for top 3 teams
• Concessions Available
Requirements:
• Wrestlers must have USA Wrestling Card
• Wrestling Shoes and Headgear required for all wrestlers
• Singlet’s or Fight Style Shorts required for all wrestlers
• Coach Present with current USA Coaching Card
For Questions Contact: Jonathan Strayer jnv858@gmail.com

 

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On 11/8/2021 at 12:07 PM, BrisFan said:

Tournaments are starting to come out now. Alot of them are on CYW

 

11/14 Bandits Takedown Tournament, Dixie High School

11/20 Battle in the Nest Beginner Takedown, Monroe OH

11/28 Moeller Open, Moeller High School

12/5 Oak Hills

12/12 Batavia Youth Tournament, Batavia OH  (also tentative date for Raider Rumble, not confirmed yet)

12/19 Fern Creek, Louisville KY

1/2 Harrison Youth Tournament, Harrison OH

1/9 SKIT, Simon Kenton

1/16 Mason Trophy Tournament, Mason OH

 

There are many more but these are what we have on our schedule currently 

How do I get to "CYW" so I can see these tournaments ?

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