State and/or National Tournaments

[wadeintothem]

We have big tournies every year where we need 80+ umpires, also they are well known and scheduled in advance. I do not blame an assigner who might move umpires to the bottom of the call list who bail on us to work in a competing org when we need umpires, but come crawling to us when suddenly they want to work for us because their org as dried up.

Pretty much human nature.

[NDblue]

Originally Posted by wadeintothem

We have big tournies every year where we need 80+ umpires, also they are well known and scheduled in advance.

Sometimes I wish we were able to get 80+ umpires for the McQuade's tournament. 450+ teams play a 2 1/2 day tournament every year here in Bismarck yet we don't have that many umpires working. If we did, I wouldn't be able to work 12-15 games over the weekend.