Seniors Contest

On Mar 15, 9:10*am, rlovinggood wrote:
(one-time CM and real-time public scoring aficionado)

Tuno,

I don't understand and yes, maybe I would if I were to CM a contest.
But no, I still can't wrap my minuscule mind around the concept of not
posting scores as soon as they are available and as soon as internet
service is available.


Respectfully,
Ray Lovinggood
Carrboro, North Carolina, USA


Ray,

Don't fret; your mental capacity is not in question. It's a subtle
point, but...

If the awards banquet is scheduled for the evening of the last contest
day, there's a tendency for some folks to bail early and start their
long drive home. Keeping some amount of suspense around the outcome
encourages at least a few more people to stick around. Having been
left holding (the not insignificant) bill for a bunch of no-shows when
we've prepaid a caterer for some minumum number of participants, I
can tell you it's not a nice feeling. There are ways around it, but
at the end of the day, it's nice of the winners have a few more of
their peers around to cheer for them.

P3

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

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
...
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

You have to understand there is a bit of tradition involved along with
timing. The drill is to land, put everything away, dress and head off
on a 20 min. Mr Toad Ride to make happy hour before the big event. The
scorers meanwhile are putting in the final touches, making sure
everything is right while thinking about making the "rounds". The
hotel has been booked way in advance , all the players get happy and
there is always a comedy skit along with all the opening acts.
Everyone knows not to hang around looking for scores and get on to the
party. The best thing is to link up with someone there and have them
call you when the scores are handed out, usually only about 1.5 hours
after we would normally know anyway.
Guest no more, baby Senior in 10'.
Look at my OLC flight on Sat. 14th and you'll see what the sniffer
does when the obvious is awaiting the warriors.
R