All, As most of you know I try to collect and organize the facts of how MAISA is working in order to anticipate and guide changes in events, rules and the Draft. In order to make this information available to all interested members of MAISA, I will be sending several of these studies by e-mail attachment over the next few days. While this information is most valuable to the members of the Executive Committee, it should be of interest to anyone who is concerned with making MAISA successful for all teams. College sailing is somewhat unique in that not all schools can host events. Indeed, while we now have 43 teams, just 26 of them host events. The established teams provide the opportunities for others to sail in anticipation that when they are capable, they will host events that return the favor. And, it isn't important that the event hosted be a "big" one. Events are needed for teams and sailors of every level to support the MAISA belief that the best racing and that which is most conducive to team and individual development comes form competition between teams of similar talent. Thus, it is particularly encouraging when our new teams like, William & Mary and Rochester are already hosting events. Another relatively new team, Ocean County, is already a major contributor to the MAISA schedule. The events they host are already vital to MAISA. Looking to the future: (1). As we add teams, we need more events. (2). As the MAISA Club Championship has become one of the most in demand events, no club can host all those teams who want to participate. We should consider regional, club only, qualifiers for the MAISA Club Championship. Such a move would also create more sailing opportunities for teams who need them. (3). It was the increase in teams that led us to the current qualification system that makes certain all teams have a good opportunity to qualify for our conference championships. Whereas once upon a time a fleet of eight boats could handle an area qualifier, with between 13 and 16 teams in our regions, we now need larger fleets and we need to look to the future to be sure we have such venues available or we could find ourselves needing four regions. (4). Prior to the 2007 Draft we will need to consider the location of the lines which divide our regions. I expect that careful consideration of the data I will be supplying will lead us to the correct course of action. I will be e-mailing these documents: 1. Hosting Teams - which teams are hosting the events that make MAISA work.
2. Event to Team Match 2006 - how the draft matched teams and events. 3. Regional Rankings and Strengths from the 2006 War & Luce - an indication of how the teams are distributed in MAISA relative to their strengths. This e-mail has "Hosting Teams 2006" attached. Things to notice: 1. Navy does a tremendous service to MAISA with all the singlehand and big boat events they run. KP is just slightly behind them in effort. 2. The teams who run our qualifiers and the open coed events are most important to the operation of MAISA followed by team events, women's events, singlehands and clincs. 3. The seven teams in our championship rotation deserve all of MAISA's appreciation for dealing with this major effort. Thank you for your interest, Dan Winters, Scheduler
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