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Yeah, we wanted new goals, but had zero budget (we made a loss this year).
The format was changed for HB by popular request (which we didn't really have time for) and we over ran.
We were on schedule to finish at 8pm for the LO on both days until the rain on Saturday and when we lost 10 minutes on each court on Sunday in the late afternoon (communication breakdown).
Agreed we should have gone over the rules better, but again, it was secondary to starting on time each day unfortunately.
First to five would have saved us a small amount of time (only 6 games went past 5 in the DE bracket, so perhaps only 10 minutes court time), but unlimited goals is more accurate and doesn't take away (precious) court time from newer teams... this is a pretty important principle for the Open.
But yeah, 82 teams (280 games) in two days was pretty tough.