How do you get competent volunteers to staff these matches for free? Having worked the VA state match a handful of times (but no longer), I had to dedicate 4 days, with 2 days off from work, to volunteer. Meals were covered but I lived close enough (90 min away) that I didnt take the shared hotel room that was offered. I know other ROs came from much further away and some people took off a week plus prior to the match to build the stages. While I agree that the money situation is a s#!t show, I cant see how you can draw people into volunteer, and keep the stages running smoothly, without covering costs of food/lodging for volunteers. Im on the fence on the travel costs to get down there as there may be a middle ground between contracting stage builders/resetters vs flying people in and potentially hiding money spent on board members to be there within the volunteer line item of the budget.