<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Folks,<div><br></div><div>In preparation for our Tournament Sites Committee's upcoming meeting, I have been putting together a listing of dates & events constraints affecting the scheduling of Unit 446 2016 sectionals, see attachment. It appears we are tardy in acquiring sanctions for our 2016 sectionals; there are few dates available to us throughout 2016. February is especially problematic -- Bellingham grabbed our usual weekend (2/12-14) as the prior weekend (2/5-7) includes Super Bowl Sunday. </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Please review the highlighted (green font and yellow background) 2016 </b><b>dates</b> <b>shown on the attachment and provide </b><b>ASAP</b> <b>your views on preferred dates for each of our sectionals throughout the year.</b> If you believe we should consider dates in addition to those that are highlighted please also advise -- perhaps Matt might buy into sanctions that coincide with some of the other events in D19, but I think we should commence by trying to avoid conflicts altogether.</div><div><br></div><div>Our committee needs this information to initially secure "baseline" sites as well as to consider and pursue alternative/emergent sites.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Tim</div><div><br></div><div></div></body></html>