We did not approve state tournament dates at our fall meeting because of concern that we would be starting some tournaments too early. I have attached the original proposal. I have highlighted the two tournaments that people thought were too early. Last year with the same interval between state and regionals as these teams would have, some people complained there wasn't enough time to get from state to regionals. Since my teams have been in that situation for intermediate the last two years, and made it fine, I prefer the alternative dates of starting the two highlighted tournaments a week later. This means five tournaments would start on the same date. This may create a shortage of umpires able to travel, but my experience the last few years is that we have had very few umpires travel, anyway, except for baseball majors. Please give me a vote for Original - Option 1 / or the highlighted one with the two baseball tournaments moved a week later - Option 2. *Note my change of email address*. This is due to a Microsoft screw up with my email account that lost years of historical emails that helped keep me informed when things came up. It crashed Jan. 1 and none of it was recoverable - although I have kept the ones that have blank sender areas, no readable message, a subject line of <No Subject> and the actual date and time sent in hopes that someday I can figure out how to get them back. I was able to get on the server and download everything for 9 months prior to the crash. Sorting through more than 10,000 emails, figuring out which I had taken action on and which I still needed to take action on. Luckily, senility hasn't crept in, so other than the sheer volume, I didn't have too much trouble with the sorting. I'm not a fan of Google, but I can no longer trust Outlook as a reliable email vehicle. *Please give me your vote for schedules by Wednesday, Feb. 19. *