Week Zero Salt Bags
KnightKrawler uses 40lb water softener salt bags to hold down our field perimeter during Week Zero competition. In 2026, KnightKrawer used 1 full pallet (63 bags) of salt. It was loaded directly in the back of a 1 ton pickup truck by forklift.
Volunteer Role: Salt Coordinator
Prior to Friday (1 week out)
- Make a large sign with a photo of a salt bag to place at the merch table.
- Include map of where to pick up salt (sidewalk on west side of Varsity Gym)
- “Softner Salt sold at the end of the tournament. We paid $7, your price $4.”
- Adjust prices each year to suit costs.
- Find/Create a stand for the sign.
- Create paper tracking sheet with 63 lines (1 for each salt bag)
- Retrieve clipboard from shop to hold salt tracking sheet
Friday (1 day before Week Zero)
- Purchase from Menards to use our tax-exempt account.
- Arrange for pickup/delivery of salt to Irondale.
- Ask Scott for QR code to use at checkout to remove sales tax from the purchase
- After tarps are down, while carpet is being marked, coordinate students to carry in salt
- 1 salt bag on every low wall support
- 2 salt bags on all driver station supports
Saturday Morning (day of Week Zero)
- Place a sign and clipboard at the merch table.
- Share with merch volunteers how to sell salt
- Collect money per bag of salt, place in merch money box
- Circle/Highlight/Mark off all the rows for the sale purchased
- Write name and phone number next to group of salt
- Explain we will call them if they forget to pick up salt at the end of the day
Saturday Afternoon (day of Week Zero)
- Ask announcers (repeatedly) to share how many bags of salt are left to purchase
- Retrieve salt sheet from merch table
- Identify 10 students to carry salt to sidewalk
- Immediately after tournament ends, carry salt to pickup location
- Stay with salt until pickup is complete
- Mark off salt tracking sheet as they are picked up
- Coordinate with Scott for a place to store any salt not purchased to load and transport