I was listening to CSPAN the other day and there was a senator at the microphone, explaining the amount of work in a gallon of gasoline. His explanation went something like: Each gallon gas contains as much work potential as 12 men working an entire year. In short, it takes the effort of 12 men working an entire year to push a car as far as a gallon of gas will take it.
He went on the compare the work output of a locamotive to 100,000 men, etc. but his point was: In our technological world, common folk have at our disposal exponentially more energy to move things than did people thousands (or even hundreds) of years ago when all they had were their hands and strong backs, maybe a plough and an ox.
This got me thinking about the amount of work-units the web-based tools of a TourneyCentral site gives an average tournament. Getting in touch with hundreds of referees is a click and email away. Sending the teams their game schedule is the same amount of work. Scheduling a tournament requires fewer volunteers as does posting scores. One gallon of Internet moves your tournament further down the road faster and with less effort than even a few years ago.
Our Advice: If you are running a soccer tournament without the TourneyCentral tools… why?? click here and get signed up today. If you are already using TourneyCentral, but only a few of the tools, take a moment and explore your modules more fully. The whole idea is to make you more efficient and effective, all the while reducing your workload. Burn some Internet fuel; we’ll make more!