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i actually preferred the rubber court. that surface was great to play on for consistency. flubbed shots can be avoided with a proper swing. the boards were shit, but all that was really needed was some plywood that could hold up to a proper shot.. i think everyone knows what needs to go into a great tournament, yet everyone is so excited to play that sometimes things get left. marc and luis did a really great job to get games played and lots of them, that was clearly their main focus and they did that well. i've never been to a tournament where you could play 7 games by winning only two, yet thats what my team did in paris!
kev is right, each court needs a full-time ref or manager, and i think 3 copies of a printed rule book. in this instance, multilingual rule books would have been helpful.
also the stonewall court learned us to consider the sun for fall/winter tournaments in the future- what a beautiful day we had there!
edited to not sound so negative, because the weekend was great!