Kristi: Do you know the breakdown of SCCA members vs.
non-members signing up for Oakland/3Com events?
1) If we switched to two registration sessions,
*without* limiting the number of entrants, nothing
would change over how it is now, except the reg lines
would be longer. You might find it difficult to close
registration - "just one more person" will always want
to sign up.
2) Two registration sessions are only going to be
meaningful if the first session is for morning and the
second is for afternoon and entries are limited. This
would be tough to enforce without different colored
entry cards or writing someone's class on the card.
Too much trouble, I think. Just the thought of this
has me figuring out ways to print my own cards and
mailing the SCCA a check for 16x$25 at the beginning
of the year ;-)
4) I wish you hadn't mentioned pre-registration :-)
This is Pandora's box. I'd rather we didn't talk about
it (yet) than dismiss it as unworkable.
There's a month to the next SC meeting. Perhaps
scenarios can be thrashed out here, the presented to
the SC for an experimental trial of 3 events.
Craig
--- "Kristi A. Soo Hoo" <ksoohoo@iresults.com> wrote:
> Hi All - the suggestions that have been streaming
> the ba-autox so far
> about limiting the number of entrants have all been
> good. I believe
> this is a steering committee decision and I am sure
> this will be talked
> about at the next meeting.
>
> My thoughts: It would be nice to limit the number
> of entrants, but then
> again the people in the afternoon are really screwed
> - they will have to
> show up early and stay all day - that is VERY
> draining.
>
> limiting to a certain number in the AM and the PM is
> a good idea - only
> problem is that when people are registering, I don't
> have time to count
> who is morning and who is afternoon.
>
> closing directly at 12:00 noon would be fine with
> me. we have been
> lenient on that because we always thought, the more
> people we register
> the better. apparently this is not always the
> case...
>
> pre-registration - let us not EVEN get into that,
> please. With how big
> these events are - I can just see the number of
> people that will be
> running two times during one day and ruining it for
> the rest of us. no
> thank you on the pre-registration.
>
> solution?! Well, what if we had registration for
> the morning open from
> 7:30AM to 9:00AM, then open registration for the
> afternoon from 11:00AM
> to 12:30PM. We could also define a limit to the
> number of entrants.
> What will this do besides make long lines? well, it
> will limit the
> number of late comers for the morning session -
> those that show up in
> time for their run group and then work out of group
> or something silly
> like that. It would hopefully make people more
> punctual and maybe
> alleviate stress for the afternoon people so they
> don't have to worry
> about coming super early - they can get to the event
> by 11am and reg
> will just have opened again.
> this will also open up the chance for buying fun
> runs. with a limited
> number of entrants, by the time we close
> registration, if we have cards
> left over, then people can purchase the fun runs.
> Until then, fun runs
> will not be sold.
>
> how about that?!
>
> :)kristi
>
>
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