Passing this Pro Solo-related insight from Howard Duncan along to everyone
Not that I am the best choice of spokespersons for Denver but since I was one
of the folks who was yammering on about it this is probably appropriate:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TeamZ06@aol.com [mailto:TeamZ06@aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 3:26 PM
> To: HDuncan
> Subject: re: Pro Solo
>
>
> Hi Howard,
>
> Just out of private curiosity, has there ever been any consideration to
> dump Pro Solo and just double up the number of National Tour events?
>
> Mark Sipe
In a message dated 11/13/01 5:51:01 PM Central Standard Time, HDuncan writes:
> Mark,
>
> That would definitely make my life easier. Actually several years ago we
> did suggest this to Dennis Dean, but he was a big supporter of the program
> and saw it as the best chance for Solo TV exposure at some point in the
> future and as a marketable entity. I still have my doubts about TV and Solo
> for a variety of reasons, which I won't go into here, but we subsequently
> came up with the National Solo concept. One of several reasons for the
> creation of this concept was to better integrate ProSolo into the framework
> of the Solo program to build its attendance and acceptance within the
> community. Determining cause and effect is always difficult, but the
> program has subsequently become more popular and better attended.
>
> Even if we did drop PS, I don't know if we would increase the number of
> Tours significantly. There are still real political issues regarding
> Divisional programs relative to the Tour program. I see a place for both,
> but that position would be hard for many to accept and for me to defend if
> there were significantly more Tours. This might be more an issue of
> perception than reality, but that has never stopped debates on other
> subjects.
>
> By the way, all the hoopla about a PS format change was a lot of energy for
> nothing. There is no change for 2002. We were actively discussing the
> concept, but decided not to make a change. We will be trying the format at
> an April Topeka PS and evaluating the outcome before deciding whether to go
> forward with it. The step after that would be to put down the entire
> description in writing and distribute to the ProSolo competitors for
> comment. We decided for 2002 to focus on fine tuning and various event
> administration issues. By the way, we did a PS test and tune event last
> month and discovered that my old laptop was the source of most of our
> timing issues late in the season. Additionally, I was not using the finish
> trips in the correct manner-- stretching their spec too far. One of the
> admin issues for next year is retraining our timing workers (competitors)
> and simplifying the paperwork for them. for some reason half way through
> this past season a number of our always reliable timing people went brain
> dead and started making mistakes you'd expect of a first timer. Truly
> weird, just like last year's weather.
>
> Anyway, gotta go as I am really backed up on emails from being gone to the
> CENDIV meeting.
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