Welcome to California Creativity's Team Manager's Corner. We're here to trade tips, stories, fears, failures and successes about being a DI team manager (TM). Being a TM can be overwhelming and a little isolating. This is the place to cure both these ills so jump on in and participate. Since this is a public web site, comment submissions will be moderated.
Remember about a month back when I suggested that you talk to your team parents about the possibility of going to the State Tournament? Good - because you are going to have the same talk again but this one is on steroids. For those going to the State Tournament, you are faced with the very real possibility of being invited to Globals. Don't think it won't happen to you. My team stabbed me in the back, aced their IC and got invited despite having a weak technical element for their team challenge (their performance and Side Trips were quite good though).
Whether your team is advancing to State Finals or not, I encourage everyone to stop on by (if feasable) and watch some solutions to the challenge you did and the challenges you didn't. The Secondary teams are always worth watching. Seeing older, more sophisticated teams perform can give teams plenty of ideas for next year.
Can you please give an example or two for the difficulty level of the ICs at the State tournament. Especially as applicable to the Elementary School teams.
I hope everyone had a great time at their regional tournament. Your scores should be posted under «Region», above.
If your team is advancing to State Finals, remember you have to register the week after the regional tournament. You need an experienced appraiser and a volunteer.
Serving the counties of Orange, San Diego and Imperial, our region stretches from the sand dunes of the desert to the waves of the ocean - hence our nick name "Waves to Dunes". WAVES TO DUNES DI NEWS Yahoo group is the fastest and easiest way for Team Managers and Membership/school Coordinators to receive the most current news about upcoming trainings and tournament. As tournament time nears, there will be information specific to each challenge.
For Waves to Dunes teams there are 4 requirements to complete your tournament registration. If you are unable to get through to the website pages referred to below, then send the information directly to cristielea@cox.net
STEP 1 VOLUNTEER APPRAISER
Provide the name, phone number, email address and mailing address for the volunteer who will appraise at tournament. Send to cristielea@cox.net and
Click here for a downloadable calendar for our region. Note that the deadline for Oct 31 training has been waived! Check back for updates on the Dec 12 and Jan 23 events.
Calendar 09 10 for membership.pdf
Destination ImagiNation congratulates all the students who participated in the Aliso Niguel High School tournament, March 1, 2008. We think you are all winners!
Teams emphasized as such are going on to the next level of competition.
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Can you please give an example or two for the difficulty level of the ICs at the State tournament. Especially as applicable to the Elementary School teams.