Ed,
I think maybe you meant the "remainder of the Regional Championship
Series," excluding the 06 Slush Series.
Our run group troubles began with the 05 Slush Series which had, for
years, been run with a six-heat make-up, 4 a.m., 2 p.m. but used the 8 heat
system for events we know will have lighter attendance.
As it turned out the 8 heat set-up we did use was, in all but one case,
flexible, and easily collapsed into a 4 & 2 organization. (Only one event
had too few in the a.m., and had to be put into a 2 heat set-up.)
For the 06 season, I suggest we use a six heat system, 4 & 2.
--Pat Kelly
> From: "Runnion, Ed" <Ed_Runnion@RegionOfDoom.com>
> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:38:46 -0800
> To: "'ba-autox@autox.team.net'" <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Cc: "'solo2sc@sfrscca.org'" <solo2sc@sfrscca.org>
> Subject: [solo2sc] Back to 8 Run Groups, and what it means for SFR 2006
> Regular Seas on
>
> As Tim mentioned in his Round 3 announcement, the Steering Committee voted
> at the February meeting to go back to 8 run groups for the remainder of 2006
> Regular Season.
>
> Emotion and an over-reaction to our first two event turnouts of 2006 (with 6
> rungroups) won out over a realistic look at our turnout numbers over the
> last year and what it takes to staff an event (30-32 workers per rungroup,
> meaning BEST CASE we need a turnout of 180 for 6 run groups and 240 for 8
> run groups). This is to fill all of our positions per rungroup :
>
> * 21 course workers (7 stations, with a flagger, radio and
> ONE cone chaser per station...consider this the MINIMUM
> per station to SAFELY do the job)
> * Announcer
> * Scorer
> * Cone Counter
> * Barcode Scanner / Radio
> * Grid
> * Starter
> * Timing Slips
> * Safety Steward
> * Gate Waiver
> * Tech (2 per morning run group, zero per afternoon)
> * Registration (2 per morning run group, zero per afternoon)
>
> (Note that it was actually one more worker per shift under the old card
> system, so the switch to the new computerized system will help us on that
> one)
>
> We also are fortunate to have folks who come in for setup in the morning so
> we can get the event started on time, so that is an extra 10 or so that we
> lose from our worker pool during the event.
>
> Given our turnout numbers from last year
>
> http://www.sfrscca.org/solo2/Results/2005/
>
> Even going "down" to 230 turnout, we only had enough turnout to staff 8 run
> groups in the IDEAL world of evenly split rungroups in 6 out of 13 local
> points regular season events in 2005.
>
> Your patience and support at events is appreciated, and thanks in advance
> for those that will volunteer for second (and third) work shifts to fill out
> the understaffed work groups that will arise as the year goes on.
>
> For those running when we are understaffed, I thank you for your patience as
> you wait for the event chairs to find volunteers before we can start a run
> group.
>
> As the ones who made the decision, I fully expect that the Steering Commitee
> members will be among the most enthusiastic of volunteers for the extra
> shifts necessary to keep our events running.
>
> Ed Runnion
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