How important is it to have a tripod caddy for matches? What ways do you all stay organized and efficient during stages (reloading mag, dope cards, notes etc.)?
I find keeping all your stuff organized and in one place to be a big benefit. It's easy to lose stuff when moving from stage to stage, especially at smaller ranges where stages are tightly spaced and people have gear laying about everywhere. It also saves time which is best spent reviewing a stage and putting your game plan together.
I can't comment on tripod caddys as I don't own one but, I've been running one of these and a dewalt tool bag. I keep my ammo, dope cards, markers and a few other small items in the TrakcPak and it goes inside the dewalt bag along with mags and a schedium game changer. The ranges I shoot at mostly have benches or other surfaces where I can write out my dope cards/take notes in my match book. However if they didn't I could see the benefit of having the flat surface a tri-pod caddy provides.
I had a small backpack attached to my tripod. And a small clipboard.
It started to gather too much stuff. Now I use a small pouch for pens and dope cards with my clipboard.