2010 FloNationals

Looks like it was a great tourney, but in your interview you stated you want those tough teams from the west to come and then you flip and say you want to stay in east. Maybe by moving it around you will get diff competion and really set yourself apart from NHSCA cause there are studs in everystate out west not just a few in the east. Keep up the good work guys love the site

How about having this tournament in early October (several weeks before the Super 32 in Carolina)? Great tune up for the upcoming season.

But all in all, you guys did a fantastic job considering it was the first year. Heck, I remember watching Doug Blubaugh pin Habibi in old black and white footage in the Olympic Finals in 1960 Rome (on youtube). The match was held outside and it looks like there are about 20 people watching...that is 20 people if you count ancient stone monuments.
So my point is, this tourney (for all its faults) was a success and is a work in process. It will continue to get better and better over the years. People keep comparing this to other tournaments that have been running for years and are fine tuned. Simply a work in progress.

guys you can pat yourself on the back all you want. Bottom line was Flo was a flop and the kids that were there from what I was told were disappointed. Kids like Zimmer, Cisneros, Issiah Martinez, Sean Dolan, and countless others who were advertised as coming were not there. There were a handful of college Coaches and they were the Assistants. Cael, Rob Koll, Jack Spates, Tom Hinkle, Jessie Castro, Carl Adams...I could go on and on were all walking the floor at NHSCA. Bottom line is you overpromised and under delivered. If there is a next year I would re think your strategy, as your gonna get a little competition in the video content game in 2011. And in case you knuckleheads didnt hear there were 2500 kids at NHSCA and live feed on every mat. Was very impressive. The only thing I heard about Flo was that it was a disappointment to the college coaches that sent staff there.

go to brandon in fl

"you reach out to the world, and they like you". True that! My whole team watches Flo everyday! This website is our wrestling voice and community! Thank you!

"I must have missed something", your name is a very accurate assumption. As I stated in my post I am completely on Flo's side. I just think that a more logical and patient approach could have been taken. You can say all this B.S. about Flo jumping out there and hittin the NHSCA tournament on the chin, and speak from your emotions all you want, but did Flo actually hurt the NHSCA tournament? I say no. I also think that the brash, aggressive approach Flo took by challenging the NHSCA tournament could have cost them a stronger and brighter future. I love our sport, and I feel that flo is leading the way for the best interests of it. I just think they could have gone about this tournament in a much more effective way. As we stand now, we had two National championships that split the talent pool and crowned no "true" national champion. Also, in Flo's pursuit to overtake the NHSCA tournament, they actually motivated them to improve, which doesn't help Flo's chances in ever becoming the one true National championship event. I want Flo to be THE high school National championship event. I think the approach taken this year, though respectable and bold, will ultimately lead to a future of diluted National championship events.

FloNationals was in direct competition with the NHSCA tournament. Not only by having it on the same date (obvious) but also with every other aspect of the tournament. The (obviously lower) price point. The All-Class vs. separate classes. The area of the nation.

What i don't understand is why people keep saying "have it on a different weekend......you're just diluting the quality of wrestling....bla bla..." Crybabies. How in the heck does it dilute the wrestling? You either go to one or the other.....and In the style that Flo has consistently exhibited...they are not gonna take some pansy a$$ long term plan to make this much needed transition happen. They set their scopes on making a better tournament than the NHSCA tournament. That was their INTENTION. so it only makes sense to have it diametrically opposed to NHSCA tournament in every way...including the same date. What is so hard for people to understand about that. Good quality teams came all the way from California to compete in the FloNationals....do you think they did it by accident? a flip of the coin?? just dumb luck that they ended up at Flo?? ....and for having it on two different weekends.......do you think they have the cash laying around to do the whole trip again in two more weeks? It's either one or the other. Different dates had absolutely no bearing on who attended which.
The people that wanted to be a true "National Champions" attended the FloNationals. I say that because it was the only tournament which advertised itself as an all-class national tournament. People that attended the NHSCA tournament wanted to be the best freshman in the nation, sophmore in the nation, etc.... but not a true All-Class National Champ. Does the NCAA break up their tournament into redshirt-freshmen, freshmen, sopres, etc? Flo gave the fans and athletes something that they've wanted for a LONG time.....and environment where we can find out who is the best collegiate style HS wrestler in the United States.
So.....wake up and realize that it was not some silly accident that it just so happened to be on the same date. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there...and Flo pretty much just stepped right up to the "established tradition" and chin-checked it. If all you whiners don't see how this is progressive and good for the sport, then you need to go back to playing with your dollies....or some other NCLB sport like pop-warner football where everyone gets their six plays. babies.

seemd to me that canceling the big mini, and the small turnout showed you guys one thing...you need to be a little more careful about going outside of your core business. Head coaches got calls in VA beach in front of me and said I quote "the turnout at the Flo event was a big disappointment" do it a different week and you will have a nice event. Make people choose and you will continue to proove that all you guys are is a few funny guys with video cameras taping wrestling matches.

Having flonationals on the same weekend as high school nationals only served to water down both tournaments.

more room for the wrestlers to wrestle out of bounds so they dont have to worry about the match next to them, and change sites, go to the west coast, midwest, east coast, it sucks traveling all the way to the east coast every year even though we know you have to travel to find good wrestling.

way more live feeds (i.e. a dedicated feed for each mat starting at the quarters, and starting at the semis a dedicated feed at each mat plus one for interviewing). Especially for the finals we didn't get to see the 3/4 matches because of interviews (if anything, 1/2 , 3/4, 5/6 , and 7/8 matches should all have dedicated feeds with one for interviews).

Also, the finals matches should just go from 103 to 285 OR post the finals schedule online!! Also, links to the bracket and online bout board should have been on the front page, along with someone online to communicate with people who have questions or requests (in a separate chat room though!).
Anyway it was a great first year, congrats Flo!

Make it the week after NHSCA. Make the finals more special, lights elevated mat or something. Get invites to all state placers everywhere.

i dont understand why they would ever eliminate 103.

What a great job all the people at Flo do to make wrestling easier to follow. Congrats on the first Flonationals and the spunk of getting it started. I have been out of wrestling for a few years now, but if it wasn't for Flowrestling I probally would not be in the wrestling scene anymore. Videos like throwback thursdays, dirty scamble and takedown, monday match of the week, and just the midwest and east coast coverages that a kid from the west only envisions what would be like. I check flo everyday and never have posted, but today I felt that Flo should know a kid from Libby, MT can still get that spark from wrestling on a site that has countless videos. To make it even better is it's free! Kudos to Flo and all that they do, and even if Martin has the dirtiest stache.

Excellent job overall, but I think flonationals.com could have been more up-to-date and reliable in regards to the information it provides. It still lets me try to register even now. I also remember seeing some contradicing information in different spots within the site.