Luke...great idea....Friday night check in. May use your idea for the States. May see if I can get someone from CNYDGA to run a Friday night random double at Oxbow (where camping will be). Keep everyone posted!
requiring people to pay to pre register(not just putting people on the list if they ask) + high demand tournament = having payout, hole assignments, etc done BEFORE friday. Then Friday I will hopefully check in at least half of the players, which means I will be able to enjoy playing in the tournament(and partying!) more myself on saturday.
for a friday check in all you have to do is sacrifice not playing doubles- Sheri did this last year, this year I will be hanging out while she plays.