Well then sign up and be an umpire, we can always use many more. Alot of umpires are old timers who don't want to be exposed. There are gonna be more one umpire games in our future, so if this is your attitude about the umpiring situation, please keep your team home, it would make our already difficult jobs a bit easier.my perspective is one ump just FLAT OUT DOES NOT WORK. The last tourney we played in did the exact opposite, only one behind the plate. All players could leave early on steal, all close calls were outs. It was brutal. No appealing of any kind. We only found out about the 1 ump situation the day before we played. Never again, we will drop if that is the case, it just ruins the game. We thought for sure they would do what you said above and prepared our pitchers/ catchers accordingly.
My team turned more double plays this past weekend than all of last season bc all close calls went to defense. We also were on the losing side of all close calls on offense. I have never seen more frustrated teams in my life at a tournament.