After reading the posts on this subject, I guess we're pretty lucky.  We're allowed to pitch tents, using stakes.  Everyone is told to count their stakes before and after setting up their site and our logistics committee carefully checks the field after the event is over to make sure no stakes are remaining.  We also have no food restrictions on the field.  Our track is fairly new so we do have limitations on it...not even wheelchairs.  We can use golf carts on the field but have a special "carpet" across the track in one area for getting to the field.  Our luminary bags line the track, just inside the track, on the grass.  We can also use firepits but have to make sure we dispose of all the ashes and residue into a metal container.  We have a sufficient number of trash/recycle containers and everyone has always done a good job of policing their own areas.  We have a computerized layout of our track and have each site numbered and at a team captains meeting, everyone picks out their site, on a first come basis.  The day before the event, we mark and number each campsite with the material they use to mark the field for football games.  Each team gets one site and if they need more space, they just go behind the initial tent towards the middle of the field.  We're a relatively small relay with 25 teams and estimate our track can hold about 35 teams so we do have room to grow.   We've designated an area at the gate end of the field for a large tent for our survivors reception and raffle.  After those events are finished, that area will be used as a gathering place during the night and will be stocked with water, coffee and snacks.  Also will have decks of cards, board games, etc.  Our relay is June 19 so the clock is ticking!

This was a new one for us this past year, as well.  We had a laundry list of rules to follow (so the school doesn't void their warranty).  The most frustrating was the "No Food or drink" (water was okay) and no candles or sand (see the Candle & Sand Banned in this forum for discussion on that).  We did okay, though.  Everyone brought tarps for under their tents and knew not to use stakes to hold them to the ground.  People weighted the tents (wind becomes an issue for us in the evening) with water bottles and such.   Anything like the stage had large sheets of plywood beneath them to keep from puncturing the turf. 

For food, we had a food area outside the field.  People could eat there or up in the bleachers.  We realized later just how hot it was up in the beachers, though, and this year, we will put up EZUps.  We'll just shorten 2 of the 4 legs so that they will stand straight and lash the legs to the seats so they don't blow away.  We'll take them down before Luminaria so we can set up the HOPE/CURE luminaria bags.

Turf is a lot hotter than grass, as well.  So we were sure to warn people ahead of time to bring towels if they planned to sit in front of the stage. 

Turf is definately difficult, but it can be worked.  And it sure does look nice in pictures.