I'm taking my skater to a competition that's 3+ hours from here in less than two weeks. We've done this competition a few times before and signed up last month some time. Usually it runs over two days and my daughter skates one event, one time and we're done. In the interest of full disclosure, I've never run a skating competition and really appreciate those who make them happen.
A few weeks ago the organizers moved it to another rink 45 min from the initial location, okay/whatever/we'll go with it. This past Friday they sent out the schedule, and then another one that delayed the entire sequence by four hours.
Today, ten days out, we got an email saying that all skaters in a certain category have a finals event the second day to determine the winner, which was a new development entirely. This involves another day's lodging and takes our entire weekend instead of part of it.
My questions: Am I being too picky about advance notice for how many days the thing lasts? Does this happen to anyone else or are these folks unique in (what looks like) their lack of organization? Finally, what the heck?