So, are you saying that you guys in San Diego can handle over 400 people at
your events? I wonder how many they can handle in Brazil?
--Navid
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Stevens [mailto:Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:34 PM
> To: Alan Dahl
> Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: So how do you do it?
>
>
> We live further south. ;)
>
> KeS
>
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Alan Dahl wrote:
>
> > Saw from today's posts that SFR managed to get nearly 340
> people though
> > 3 runs at yesterday's autocross. Congratulations! As a
> Northwest Region
> > member where we are struggling to deal with 260 entrants
> (in Seattle in
> > February!!!) it would be helpful to know just how you guys
> manage to be
> > so efficient? We're getting better and better but it's been
> a struggle
> > keeping up since the numbers of entrants at our events have
> grown from
> > 65-100 back in '95 to our current 200-250 range. Every time we think
> > we're ready for the new level we get still more entries.
> >
> > Last weekend's event was the back-breaker. After bigger and bigger
> > entries at each event this year (191 then 226) we were
> snowed with 256
> > entrants of which a whopping 110 were novices! Unfortunately several
> > problems resulted in not everyone being able to run which we want to
> > prevent from ever happening again so anything NWR could
> learn from SFR
> > would be great.
> >
> > I should point out that these early-season attendance
> problems were for
> > our WWSCC series not the NWR/SCCA series which starts this upcoming
> > weekend. We've discussed requiring SCCA membership as SFR
> does to limit
> > entries at SCCA events but since WWSCC is not SCCA and has
> no membership
> > per se (it is a council of several unrelated clubs) this
> solution is not
> > available to us. What we need to do is be more efficient in event
> > planning and execution which is where your help would be invaluable.
> >
> > Thank you very much,
> >
> > - Alan Dahl
> >
> > P.S. Please CC me directly on your replies, I am on the
> digest version
> > of the list and I'd like to be able to keep your separate
> responses to
> > forward on to the folks on our local autox list.
> >
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