Jule,
Friday only weigh-ins is a convenience for the hosting tournament. Yes, it is possible to start on time with a Saturday morning weigh-in using both Track Wrestling and doing it by hand. BUT, I guarantee you and a lot of other volunteers helping you are not going to get a lot of sleep the night before and you will be scrambling Saturday morning tiring to make all the changes. We have used Track Wrestling for several years now both with and without Saturday morning weigh-ins and it was rare that I was in bed before 3. With Steven Foster running TW for us and having a Friday only weigh-in we had everything printed Friday night and for the first time ever, I was in bed by midnight.
Goddard provided many satellite weigh-in locations on Friday night to make it easy on clubs around the state. Obviously you can’t make everyone happy all the time and I’m sorry you are one of those individuals.
Every year some has to complain about how a tournament is run. I BEG you to come and help at a tournament and find out how much time, planning and hard work volunteers put in to make a tournament run successful. There is not a single tournament director out there that doesn’t have at last one issue they would like to see fixed at their tournament. Every tournament wants to be successful and not have any hiccups along the way so people like you don’t have a reason to come on the talk forum and complain.
With TW becoming more and more popular you will have a difficult time finding a tournament your kids will be able to wrestle at if you choose to skip the Friday only weigh-ins. Our kids are only young once, sometimes you need to make those small sacrifices along the way so that our kids get the most out of the sport.
