Well, you could contact your SSA Regional Directors and Directors at Large via the SSA website.

They will meet soon, September 13 in Charlotte for their fall SSA meeting so you need to get in touch now and perhaps get this back on the agenda. Probably best to contact your specific regional Director first to learn the background about the decision. Much of the essential SSA business is conducted in VOLUNTEER committees and by the Executive Committee (EXCOM.) It works, for the most part, but SSA members need to make their thoughts known to their Director or through the Committees (also listed on the SSA website) well in advance of the agenda setting process for the fall and winter annual meetings.

Find the list of your Directors at the SSA website, click on tabs at the top of the page: The SSA, then About the SSA, then Governance. At the bottom of the list you can click and send your thoughts to the entire group of Directors at once. The Directors at Large are a separate list but it has the same e-mail capability.

I imagine that there are many factors in choosing these 2015 contest dates, likely based on the local club preferences and the volunteers than host the contests, but your point is well-taken.


Commenting now in advance to the inevitable inquiries: Sorry but I cannot offer Marfa, Texas, as a contest site for political and personal reasons. You'll just have to watch "The Sun Ship Game" film of the 1969 Nationals (available from Paul Remde at Cumulus_Soaring.) Yep, I was there . . . saw 85 sailplanes and met the legends of soaring flying a variety of wooden, aluminum and first-generation glass ships with the "Open" single-class rules of "run what you brung!" Only one US National contest was held back then and it was our "Oshkosh" for two weeks every summer. Won't happen again and that huge WWII Marfa Army Air Field seen in the film has returned to nature. Nevertheless I have a big bronze plaque outside of my glider hangar on the Marfa Airport honoring those glory days, as the 15th National Landmark of Soaring, compliments of our National Soaring Museum in Elmira, NY. It's very nice.