Tim, if you don't mind, unless I receive a different version later, can I use this one for the SPA newsletter?

Sounds very familiar and very similar to the first contest we held in Asheville, NC, which was also a one-day event that first year. Your experience is very similar to everyone else running their first contest. We got help our first year from the "boys from Knoxville", and that made all the difference.

The contest the following year was our first 2-day, and we were largely on our own, and had all kinds of problems from the scoring program to judging order etc etc. We ran out of scoresheets and had to print more, and made a lot of "on the fly" decisions, but we made it. We have now held six consecutive contests.

Send me some photos.

Duane Wilson
SPA Newsletter Editor