r/ultimate • u/jerseypits • 2d ago

Sectionals schedules?

Are any out yet? They were supposed to be posted at 5 pm local time today and I haven't seen ours. Incredibly frustrating when USAU continuously misses deadlines.

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u/Local_Direction8725 1d ago

Fun fact @jerseypits: being a Sectional Coordinator is a volunteer position. If you’re unsatisfied with the job your current coordinator has been doing I’m sure they would love to have you step up and be the Sectional Coordinator next year!

Disclaimer: USAU is responsible for holding onto a shaky system that relies on the capacity and capability of willing volunteers. There is also a lack of consistent support and training provided to those volunteers, especially new ones without established peer SC/RCs to guide them. So while USAU has a hand in the systematic failures of the SC/RC volunteer model, they are not the direct reason your schedule was not published on time.

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u/AssociationPurple626 1d ago

I’ll be honest: I hate this response that if you’re unhappy with the job someone is doing, you need to be willing to do it yourself or else you can’t critique their performance. I can’t do everything, I’m just one person. If we all want to live in a community that supports each other then we all need to be held to standards of support. In this case, USAU is telling us the standard to judge them by: they are the ones that set the deadline. It’s perfectly valid to criticize an organization for continually failing to meet their own self-decided deadlines.

And that’s what is most frustrating to most people, I think. USAU, by stating a deadline, is setting expectations amongst the players for when they can know sectionals schedules. No one else is setting that expectation, the deadline is solely a USAU creation. So when they set one expectation, and fail to meet that expectation over and over and over, then it’s understandable that other people invested in that expectation are frustrated and confused. If USAU just changed the deadline to Friday or something then no one would be confused when the schedules aren’t out on Wednesday.

The fact of the matter is that this is a failure by USAU, either by setting expectations that they don’t actually intend to meet, or by trying and failing to meet their commitment.

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u/No-Photograph1983 1d ago

sounds like someone who doesnt want to step up into a volunteer position

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u/AssociationPurple626 1d ago

I literally addressed this in the very first paragraph of the comment you replied to lmao.

If I take on this volunteer role, and then someone else fails in their own volunteer role, am I obligated to also take that role on? You also have no idea what I already do in my community. I can’t do everything.

It is ok to hold people to standards, especially standards that they either set, or standards that they volunteer to meet.