I'm working to lock down the building availability here, but I'm hoping to host an OAC event (actual name TBD) in early October, probably October 3rd or 10th here at North with the intention of qualifying a bunch of teams for OAC regionals (as well as serving as a fundraiser for our newly-formed team).
My goal is to have 6-team brackets, qualify how ever many teams in the morning and then rebracket into 6's to qualify some more teams in the afternoon. If I could pull 30 or 36 teams, I'd be ecstatic.
I will hand-write the set with the help of whoever wants to contribute, which usually ends up being a good group of writers like Mike Bindis, Tom Moore, etc.
The cost structure will be something like $70 first team/$60 add'l teams/$5 buzzer discount.
I will post a full announcement once I have everything squared away and set in stone, but the team is definitely going forward once I sort through the mound of paperwork in front of me. Our academic boosters gave me $2000 as start up funds and since I'm not planning on taking any overnight trips or going to nationals next year, that should be plenty to cover the season.
I'm both excited and nervous about the opportunity. I'm glad to get back into it though for sure.