Ed,
I agree totally with your statement. But now, it is
Thursday morning, 0645 hrs Eastern Daylight Time, and
still no report that I can find on either the SSA webpage
or the Benz Aviation web page.

Why don't the race organizers have a person responsible
for providing daily written information to the SSA
web page all lined up before the race? Isn't that
part of smart Contest Management? And, of course,
having a scorer who can upload the daily results to
the SSA web page? I believe Guy has made it so easy
that 'even a cave man can do it.'


Ray Lovinggood
Carrboro, North Carolina, USA

At 02:30 19 July 2007, Ed Byars wrote:
I started looking for news of the Region 6 contest
at Ionia last weekend
when their practice days started hoping the hosts or
contest management
would have some news...a current roster maybe or some
sentence or two about
the weather or at least a note if the was bad and unflyable.
Here it is 10
PM Wednesday night, the week half over, and not a
word. One would assume
that maybe the contest was canceled or that the hosts
and officials don't
care what the rest of the world thinks of the selfish
manner in which they
are keeping their secrets.

Actually, I know from other sources what is happening
but I am disappointed
that they don't understand what a bad impression they
are making by their
lack of dissemination of timely information. The
SSA has gone to so much
trouble to make it so easy to post contest reports
(good, bad, scores, or
just basic information) and it's sad to see this ignored.

Ed Byars