Dennis. Excuse me. I meant exactly what I said about several years and it was not behind the porta potty. Ask around if you care. I have felt alone on this issue for along time. Most will not say anything they just quit. Obviously I kept all of this within the Scale Masters as I hoped that someone would listen I did not feel that any of this needed aired out in public forums. Now that we are on this forum maybe this may work. This is the first time I feel like there is someone else as concerned as I am.
We all seem to know where the problems lie and NOW is the time to help fix it. That is the reason for my post offering an idea for a new concept.
You may be unaware of our group of 10 here in So Calif. Late in 2008 we hosted a new concept in scale competition. The turnout was small,the weather was not good etc. However we did use some of the new things I talked about. The judging stand I spoke of on my previous post was one. Another idea used was a business type card inviting the participants to the event a web site was created etc. To be truthful I immediately found that old habits do not dissapear easily among the leaders of this group. However everyone jumped in with a job to do. Who started this? I DID so that we could operate as Top Gun does and that is if something does not work the first time we can change it easily. In addition I felt by doing these so called radical things the Scale Masters group would not only be watching but we felt that it would help to improve the Masters qualifier attendance and they may see that something different will work. Will this continue? I do not know however we will attempt something after the first of the year. Regards Mel.