Adding the Windy City Qualifier (390)

On our club team, we enjoy competing in big tournaments. Every year a team gets a certain amount of these big tournaments and qualifiers. This year we were supposed to have two qualifiers and regionals for qualifying tournaments. The two qualifiers were Mideast Qualifier and Northern Lights Qualifier, but we didn't get into the Northern Lights Qualifier, so that leaves us with only one qualifier. In the past, I have gone to three or four qualifying tournaments, but this year we only have two. Our team was somewhat disappointed with that, so we tried to add another qualifier. We wanted to go to the Windy City Qualifier in Chicago. One of our parents, Crystal May, organized all of the information and let all the players and parents on our team know about it. First, we had to make sure that everyone could go that weekend and we all could, except later one of our girls said she couldn't, but we still had nine people who could go, which is enough to play. We were excited for this new tournament that we were going to add because this tournament was another chance for us to earn a bid and qualify for nationals! This is a big deal because right now we only have one chance to earn an open bid from a qualifier because at regionals they do not give out open bids, just national and american bids. We asked our coach if he could go and he could, so the next step was to ask our club director. We let him know about the tournament we wanted to add and waited for a response. Unfortunately he did not have us go to the tournament, because apparently there were multiple families who could not go. We were disappointed by this because we really wanted another chance to qualify for nationals and to play really good competition. All of the girls on this team are really dedicated to playing and are always up for more playing! As of now, we are on the top of the waiting list to get into Northern Lights. This means that if a team that is currently in the tournament drops out, that spot will open up to us and we can be in the tournament. Hopefully that happens so that we can play in another qualifier!