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Apologies for the multiple postings...

TRASH is pleased to announce the dates for 2006 Regionals and 2007 TRASHionals!

TRASH Regionals 2006 will be held the weekend of November 10-11, 2006 at sites across the United States and Canada. If you are interested hosting a TRASH Regional, e-mail me at [email protected]

TRASH Regionals tournaments make excellent fundraisers for QB teams!

TRASHionals X, the 10th TRASHionals championship, is scheduled for the weekend of April 20-21, 2007 at a site TBD. If you are interested in hosting TRASHionals, e-mail me at the same address.

James Dinan
Business Manager, TRASH
[email protected]

As I mentioned last week, I'm retiring as TRASH Business Manager.

However, I will remain with TRASH as a writer, treasurer and goodwill ambassador.

TRASH has opted to get rid of the Business Manager position, instead splitting the roles I did among several people.

Among the new roles is Regional Coordinator, who is Mark Coen. Here's Mark's first message as TRASH RC...




As part of our reorganization at TRASH, I've been tapped to
coordinate the 2006 regionals, coming the weekend of November 10-11.

And in the interest of getting them to come to a campus near you,
I'd like to reiterate the call for regional hosts. If you're free
that weekend, and would be interested in hosting a regional
tournament, please drop me a line at mcoen_bu at yahoo dot com. I
know many folks have already headed out for the summer, but wanted
to get one more request out there.

For those of you who have already contacted James Dinan about this,
I'll be getting your information shortly. You don't have to contact
me, but if you'd like to please feel free. That goes for anyone
with questions about regionals.

Thanks,

Mark

So, whats the deal with specifics/sites etc? I've already had a few random trash dinosaurs contacting me asking if I knew where TRASH regs are occuring etc. Now, with it only a couple of months away, and IO announced as well, I am just wondering what the deal is for those of us who would like the information.

From Mark Coen...

We at TRASH are pleased to announce the following sites for our 2006
regional tournaments, coming your way this November 11 unless
otherwise indicated.

Your regional hosts, with contact info:

Northeast: Boston University (Nathan Bragg, [email protected])

Southeast: Georgia Perimiter College (Anthony Bush, [email protected])

Great Lakes: Brock University (Andy Saunders, [email protected])

Upper Midwest: University of Minnesota (Brian Weikle, [email protected]); tournament to be held on Sunday,
November 12.

Rocky Mountains: University of Colorado (Paul Bailey,
[email protected]); tournament will be held on Saturday,
November 18 due to a football game at Colorado on the 11th.

Hosts will post separate tournament announcements at a (hopefully
not too much) later date.

We will announce other regional sites as they become available. We
are still seeking hosts in a few locations, so if your team is
interested in hosting a regional tournament, feel free to contact me
at mcoen_bu at yahoo dot com.

Mark

From Mark Coen...

TRASH is pleased to announce that the University of Tulsa will host
the TRASH Southwest Regional tournment on Saturday, November 11.

The contact for the event is Angelo Malabanan (angelo-malabanan at utulsa
dot edu).

From Mark...

TRASH is pleased to announce the the University of Illinois will be
hosting the Lower Midwest regional on Sunday, November 12. The contact
person for the tournament is Mike Sorice (msorice at uiuc dot edu).

Does anyone know if there's going to be a Mid-Atlantic site for TRASH regionals (and on what date)?

A response would be appreciated, as it affects a decision I think I have to make this week.

- Bill

I have to second what Bill wrote here -- are we going to have a Mid-Atlantic TRASH Regional, and if so, where?

Thanks,
Adam

I don't know if our team officers have responded to Mark as of yet... (I've directed my team president's attention to it). If they have and If we're drafted @ GW (If they haven't mailed Mark to volunteer, I won't volunteer them without their input.) we'll be facing a couple of challenges :

1) The students have never run a tourney before -- dauting task, thanks to the size of the Mid-Atlantic tourney.
2) While we do have a number of friends and alumni (you included in the former, Adam), this is the tourney we MD/GW elders all tend to want to play, rather than officiate.

I would take it Casey would have pounced on it already if Md. wanted to host.

Have there been any other offers from potential hosts?

~T~

So is the above message saying GW is going to host a mid atlantic trash regionals? I've read through it several times and I can't figure out what it's saying.

No. No... The above rambly message means that:

1) I've forwarded Mark Coen's "seeking hosts" email to my team president.
2)I don't know if my team has acted on it yet. If we have, I don't know if we have a a hosting nod, and I'm not going to volunteer them for one without consulting the team.
3) If we somehow have a hosting nod, there are some challenges.

I was also wondering who in the area, if any had asked to host. TRASH just can't say, "here, you host... " without willing teams to volunteer to host the shindig.


~T~

From Mark C. ...

TRASH is happy to announce that the University of California at Irvine
will host the TRASH West Regional on Saturday, November 11. The
contact for the tournament is Marcus Luna (marcusaluna at yahoo dot
com).