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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