Je me suis incrit et j'ai reçu un mail de Brian qui va faire des mises au point demain!

Posté par Joe sur NCDSA:

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*Important Notes on the Racing* The sign up allows you to designate Pro, Open, Masters, Women. My intent is to have a, b, c, d groups in all one OPEN category. We may, MAY use the designations for singling out our fastest racer in a given class. Again please expect our racing in one single class. Expect to qualify Friday, followed by a bonus race along the lines of a 25-50 cones "one and done". Saturday is head to head. Sunday is GS and the beginner race. I realize that we cannot please all racers, but I hope you will still attend and enjoy yourself. Joe

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This is an issue I struggle with. If 64 racers arrive, we will have 4 groups of 16, a, b, c, and d. You race any man, woman, or child that qualifies as fast as you do. That seems fair.

But what about single lane races like GS? All 64 riders in the same group? I have seen races where they give out awards for the a, b, c in the GS, but that is different in my mind. that is just giving an award for 17th, 33rd.

In a dual race if you qualify 17th you don't get a prize, you have to race and race thru round of 16, 8, 4, and the finals to win. In my mind that is what deserves reward. Fighting to take the top spot in your bracket.

So, in GS maybe we can recognize top pro, top am, top master, top woman.

Anyone got any ideas?

I registered as "Open" too, but for GS i dunno what would work best.

Maybe separate racers by weight classes? ;-)

Or

-Juniors (about 6-7 racers)
-Women (about 6-7 racers)
-Open (about 20 to 30 racers)
-Masters (about 15 to 25 racers)

Here's my take on it.

Open qualifying split into A B C D groups for the brackets in dual racing is the best way to go. If I'm not mistaken, if the race is ISSA sanctioned as an Open race they don't care about the brackets and want the final results (if you finished 1st in the B, it makes you 17th in the Open) to award the points. But like you said, winners of the A B C D bracket should be rewarded/recognized since they fought through elimination rounds to obtain their ranking.

As far as the single lane (GS in Antrim's case), splitting into groups is unnecessary. We do it here for our outlaws just for the fun of it. We split the field in two for A and B but it doesn't really mean anything since you race the clock, not someone else. I think you should reward the top 3 GS finishers and maybe recognize in some way the fastest Am, Master, and Woman. I assume the fastest Pro will end up first in the Open anyway...

Je suis inscrit ! Open....la question ce pose meme pas dans mon cas hahaha ! J'ai vraiment hate d'y aller ca va me faire sortir un peut de la boutique !

Hey la gang de Québec!

Il reste 1 mois au contest alors il est temps d'aller vous inscrire au plus gros contest de slalom dans l'est!!! C'est pas une joke!! Comme chaque année y'a de plus en plus de racer de partout! It's a must go!

Toujours pas inscrit?
-Steph?
-E-Boy?
-Zoon?
-Mig?
-Louis?
-Greg?

COME AND RACE THE BEST RACE IN THE EAST!!

Seb


from ISSA:
''Hi, Antrim Can/Am Skaters:

Let me be the first to welcome you back to Antrim for the 2009 Antrim Can/Am Slalom Championships! http://www.slalomskateboard.com

My race committee met last Monday for the first time, and we're getting our plans together.

EARLY CHANGES YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT:

o We're opening registration on July 1 and closing it when we reach 60 paid skaters. At that point we will put you on a wait list. You may cancel up to September 1, after which you lose your money. Sorry to have to do that, but we had too many bail last year and lost money on housing. And I got my weenie whacked.

o Registration will be handled on Active.com, a sports event registration site, not NCDSA. Will post the link as soon as it's active.

o Registration will ask you for your housing preferences and whether you want to find your own.

o Cost is $75.00, which as of this writing will include:
Meals ticket for:
Friday pizza party (family @$5.00 a head)
Saturday breakfast at the First Presbyterian Church
Saturday lunch on the hill by the Antrim Baptist Church
Saturday BBQ dinner at Tenney Farm
Sunday continental breakfast on the top of the hill

Free Camping:
At Seven Maples, same as last year. Five miles from Antrim, however, we don't have the bridge detour we had last time.
We have some tents available, like last year.

Free Dorm on cots: (UNCONFIRMED, BUT LIKELY)
At the Maharishi Academy. Very spartan, but clean, warm & dry. About 4 miles from downtown.

Party: We'll buy the basics. If you want Guiness, you're buying this year!


o We're adding a porta-potty at the top of the hill, and down by the grandstands, back in the corner. Also adding a changing booth (think Superman) at the top of the hill to avoid exposing classrooms full of kids. Remember -- no use of the school bathrooms this year!

o FYI, Southwest is now flying into Boston as well as Manchester. Pricing is typically cheaper into Manchester.

More details coming in the next few days as we hash through some things.

We look forward to hosting you again this year! ''

Trop hâte!

Mmmmmmh?!? Est-ce que ça serait notre Face de crabe sur le t-shirt de cette année???

je pense que oui