For those of you who don't already know we were in an unusual circumstances for a tournament. Five days before the tournament, we were made aware of a time conflict which would force us out of the venue by 2:30pm. Our earliest finish time had previously been 4pm. After the initial momentary pause in respirations, we gathered our wits and decided we could rise to the challenge. And rise we did!
Our TKD family rallied and offered support of all kinds. There were so many hands to help in every area of the tournament: concessions, button sales, silent auction, set up and take down and tournament operations. From the moment the tournament began on time (and did not surrender to "Taekwondo Time") through every transition our MTC Family operated smoothly and efficiently. Every duty was attended to without a moment of hesitation and all the while people interacted happily with the goal of enabling every participant, coach, referee, volunteer and spectator to have the most beneficial experience possible.
We finished competition in 4 hours and 47 minutes and were completely cleaned up and our of the venue before 2:30. I heard rumor the day of the tournament that the reason we operated so efficiently was because we were smaller than ever before. In actuality, we had 124 competitiors which was five more than any other year.
Thank you all, you are amazing.
I am honored to be part of such an amazing group and I am humbled to call you all family.
Thanks, Amanda Rosbarsky
