Happy New Year!!
2011 was a breakout year for the club in regards to attendance, quality of stages and the smoothness with which we're able to run ever-increasing crowds of folks through.
That said, there will be some significant changes made to the way in which matches are coordinated!
1.) We are only going to accept pre-registered folks through EventBrite. The match fee will remain $15.00 and we will cap at 24 competitors (Three match directors are necessary and will be squadded/handled ahead of time.)
2.) If you aren't a USPSA member, we will extend you a courtesy of 2 matches to try it out. After that, you must have a USPSA number in order to shoot. Sign up here. It is $20.00 for an associate membership.
3.) If you register, but do not show, there are no refunds. I'm sorry - part of our goal is to simplify the paperwork and a refund policy is not feasible.
4.) We will no longer accept walk-ins. If you show up with $15.00, I will be forced to turn you away.
5.) Tickets will go on sales the Monday before a match at 8 AM and end at 8PM on the Wednesday before the match... You are limited to 3 ticket purchases.
6.) Please, do not park at the Vet Clinic. Do not block the vet clinic rear-lot access!!
You can park in front of the welding shop, and along the west side of the welding building. Do not block the house next to the welding shop. Please leave some spaces for the "House of Glass" folks who are also trying to run a business.
On to fun things!
Congrats to Kerry Dean - winner of the vs. match. Congrats to Emil K. for taking second and winning the alternate bracket! Both winners received a $15.00 off coupon for Optics Planet and a 10% off ammo at HP!
Second place winners were Jay Carillo and, that chump, Les Kismartoni! JC walked away with a 10% off ammo at HP coupon. Les got a headache for his efforts.
Lastly, I'm sorry to have sent one of our newer competitors home last night - I hate turning people away, but with 38 people, it was going to be impossible to keep sanity... Also if I managed to bark at anyone, please know that I luv you all and was just trying to determine the best way to navigate the troubled waters... (Sorry GerryD...)
That said we got through the match pretty smoothly and managed to get some video!
MISS is an official club of the United States Practical Shooting Association.
2 comments:
what is the problem that is causing the change?
the whole system seems not very practical to new shooters.
why 24? I thought 27 was the number.
If MISS is such a success, maybe we can add more days...
The problem is that we're simply getting too many folks for the size of venue that we have.
Solutions other than capping would be to:
1.) Get a different venue - not feasible yet.
2.) Increase the price - don't want to do that.
I thought the post was clear regarding that, but we cap at 27 shooters. We need 3 match directors, who are handled ahead of time, thus 24+3 = 27.
We can't add more days as most of us have limited time to run these matches and the venue only has a few openings a month that we can use.
As far as being practical to new shooters, I guess we'll see how this pans out. In this day and age of internet-ordering, etc I don't think it'll be a big deal.
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