> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Kevin Stevens
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 10:06 PM
> To: navid@interwoven.com; lollipop@ricochet.net; Steven J. Sherwood
> Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: One problem with Albany
>
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> All that being said, we as a region are not giving the necessary
> effort to do a
> proper job working the course and accurately recording cones. It
> was noticeably
> bad last year and it is very noticeably worse this year. I made
> the suggestion
> privately last year, and I make it publicly this year: I think
> we ought to
> start handing out some DNWs for course workers who don't announce
> cones promptly
> and accurately, don't reset the course promptly and accurately,
> and basically
> don't give a damn about whether the competition in other classes is scored
> correctly or not. I'm tired of sprinting around from the PITS to
> reset a cone
> so that we don't have yet another rerun, while the course workers stand
> indolently by and snicker at the admittedly humorous sight of me
> sprinting. I'm
>[snip]
Since you open this can of worms, I have to tell you my sad story from the
last event. My first 2 runs on Sunday were dirty. On my third run, I was
going through the first slalom with walls of cones. After the second wall,
I noticed the entire wall (3 cones) were laying down. No, these were not
the pointer cones on the outside of the slalom, this was one of the walls
you had to get around. By the time I put on the breaks, I was up to the
next wall. At this point I figured it was too late to stop and got back on
the gas.
That was my only clean run, so I got stuck with that time. After I parked
my car, I had to sprint over there (come to think of it, I did hear
snickering :)) to point out to the course workers the downed cones. To
which they replied "they were like that when we got here". Now, I knew they
were not down the first 2 times I went through, so I had to point out the
choked boxes to prove my point. That's my story and I'm sticking to it :).
I'm with Kevin on this one. Specially now that we only get 3 runs, we need
to do a better job on course to make all of them fair.
--Navid
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