[Feelundseenna]

The big reason that I like the idea is because it would give schools some incentive to have tournaments. Our club needs to go to tournaments, because that's how you get the school to see that you're actually doing something. Our club really didn't do anything at all last year (I was not a member yet since I went to a different campus), and we only got about $750 in allocation because of it. Now that's a good amount of money and I completely understand, but realistically that's just 2 sets of possible club bogu, or a few trips. We decided to use it on trips instead of bogu, and because of it I have to tell college students "spend $350 on bogu or quit" when they're ready, which upsets me a little bit because my Sensei was generous enough to allow me to borrow bogu until I was able to buy it myself.

This year I'm trying to get us out to more tournaments to at least get the club's name out there since we're still very new, but there just aren't any. So far we've gone to a shinsa, the SEUSKF tournament and the Rutgers University tournament. I would have loved to get to more then one tournament last semester, but it just wasn't a possibility.

Also, about west coast schools dominating our tournaments, maybe we would do better if we had more tournament experience?