On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 11:39:32 AM UTC-4, Sean Fidler wrote:
Marketing for the seniors event is far better than most but still leaves much to be desired. The best means of following the event online seems to be "friending" pilots and spectators on Facebook. Then you get a slow drip of info...maybe.

Also, the SSA tracking for AAT tasks is a little boring, to say the least.. There is no rhyme or reason to the tracks. They are meaningless in terms of their relationship to other competitors tracks. Who is ahead? When did they "start?" You have literally no idea. And most of the SPOT units freeze up and have large gaps of no data. SPOTs only report position every 10 minutes if functioning properly. The InReach units allow for 1 minute updates with altitude, heading and speed but very few pilots are willing to pay extra service fees to provide that data. So few do this that it is not highlighted in the SSA tracking app.

Contest organizers should have dedicated media staff 100% focused on communicating the happenings to the fans. Updates should be posted to social media often with occasional short clips of video, etc. This is pretty standard practice in major sailing events. We have so few contests, in my opinion they are all "major" events.

My 2 cents...

You are correct. I can't believe they do not have a website setup for media, scoring info, etc. The world knows nothing about this and someone might be interested. Every hang gliding and paragliding contest has a scoring site as a minimum!! (See Ozreport.com)