Dissapointing entry to Juniors in England

Hi,

I have just started running tournaments in Hereford in uk. We are a bit off the main road, however its not that far and we don't start until 10am to give people time.
I have run 2 junior tournaments so far.
First one has 24 entries, second one had 11 entries.

No we have the best venue IMO in the UK until you start talking national championships.
We play an a futsal arena pitch so you DON'T slip at all ever!
Court sizes are 11.5m by 6.9m 5 barriers by 3 barriers.

I don't think many venues give you that much room.

There are seats with a side view for 280 people and a café upstairs and showers and changing facilities.

And we run a progressive groups format, for example 40 entries;

round 1: 8 groups of 5
round 2: 8 groups of 5
then QF with KO

So you are guaranteed 8 games in the day and possibly 11 if you get to the ko stages and final, can you tell me another tournament where you get this many competitive games guaranteed.

Oh and last time there was a prize fund of £200

Oh and we have an international umpire for the tournament on Oct 1st too!

Sad thing is if the next one on October 1st is not better supported we wont be running any more juniors and will just run vets.

That would be a big shame!



Edited by mog1111 - 09/19/2017 at 7:13am

kuifje wrote: There just are not many juniors around - I'm sure it will be much easier to get a good number of people if you organise a VETS ranking tournament. There seem to be more and more of those recently, and they are quite popular. I haven't been in Hereford, but it's not too far for me and I'd probably enter.

we had a vets couple of weeks ago and it was well attended!