Gee Ray...
The holding of scores for the banquet was just a speculation on my part
because I have known it to happen but I do not know it happened yesterday.
Anyway I thought I was sending only you a response...not the whole world.
I'm not about to criticize the great work of my good buddies John, Rick, or
Kunut. I better not after the kind words Rick had to say about my son Guy!
Guy has designed the scoring program (at my urging) so that it is very
simple for the scorer to download the scores to the SSA web site with almost
literally the push of one button. I, like many of you, do get frustrated
sitting at home hours after the contest day is over waiting for the scores
on the SSA site, especially when I have attended so many of these same
contests and seen how quick they are posted at the site. I feel that many
scorers are reluctant to post partial unofficial scores to SSA. I think
they should be encouraged to do so with the full understanding that many
unofficial updates are much preferred to the frustration of knowing nothing.
But like others pointed out...I remember the old days when you read about it
in the magazine a month later.
Ed
"rlovinggood" wrote in message
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P3,

I'll agree to disagree with you on holding scores on the last day.
Heck, hold the banquet on the night before the final day. The final
day might get rained out and there's going to be people traveling home
on the final day and not waiting around for the banquet.

But, for the other days, the organizers and participants should try to
get some news out. Just let us know if a race was flown and give us
the preliminary winner or top three (pick a number) for the day. As
mentioned previously, if the internet isn't working, grab a phone
(there is usually a land line at a contest site) and call someone that
does have internet service for a quick synopsis. Heck, if there's a
land-line telephone, there might even be a fax machine. Fax out to
someone with internet service and again, a quick synopsis such as "we
didn't fly due to weather" or "we didn't fly because it's a rest day"
or "the winner was...and preliminary scores will be posted when the
internet is working again..."

Respectfully,
Ray Lovinggood
Carrboro, North Carolina, USA