Grandmaster Willie G. Wilson took a few minutes to explain Karate 5's
stance on tournament participation. Several people had asked him why 
Karate 5 didn't attend certain tournaments this year and had made
the erroneous assumption that Karate 5 was "mad" at certain ones.

The Karate 5 board of directors makes out the schedule of  
events for Karate 5 at the beginning of the year. Due to the state of
the economy, it was decided that we could not attend each and
every tournament. Therefore, we will rotate the tournaments and
attend 2 or 3 a year. The Hall of Fame will be one that might be
attended every year and the others will have to fit in the 
rotation. Karate 5, like everyone else, has it's own agenda but
we try to be supportive of all approved Isshinryu based activities
even though we are not supported likewise.