ModelMaker
Quintessential Chatty Farker
Rules and Rep advisories are both in the members section under resources, file archive.
Ed
Ed
My biggest takeaway is the BoD is ignoring the pressing issues and focusing on minutia like Judge of the year (Team of the Year is still unresolved) Judge achievement awards (Master Table Captain) and ignoring the fact that membership is down to 17,000 and continues to drop.
To me:
Rules are a big issue: why is the focus on rules the size of the paper the rules are printed on? Where are the rep advisories? Why isn't there a single place on the website where a new team can read all the rules and rep advisories (defacto rules)?
Judging (and rep) consistency and accountability issues (I know I know) but it's STILL an issue.
There are more but I'm almost at what's the point.
Agenda posted. There is some interesting stuff in there this month.
https://kcbs.us/news_manager.php?page=17501
Rules and Rep advisories are both in the members section under resources, file archive.
Ed
Interesting about the PRO-AM, but isn't it basically describing what Competitor's Series format already is? I personally like Competitor Series and wish there were more available in our area.
I like the idea of a Pro-Am series. Sounds like a reduced cost too. I hope they follow through on it. Might give us a chance to compete more.
Correct, but if there is a backyard team out there that is thinking about making the jump to KCBS they cannot read the rules on the website without having a paid membership. IMHO the rules should be made available to everyone whether you have a paid membership or not.
I most heartily disagree, if I could I would require every head cook to be a dues paying member of KCBS.
If this backyard team is too cheap to become a member then maybe they could find a current member and ask to look at their computer.......
Ed
What a great way to kill off new teams coming in or a contest struggling to get to 25 trying to get some locals or a backyard team to jump in.I most heartily disagree, if I could I would require every head cook to be a dues paying member of KCBS.
If this backyard team is too cheap to become a member then maybe they could find a current member and ask to look at their computer.......
Ed
Something else that came to mind. What ever happened to splitting (and awarding) tiers in ToY? That seems to have just vanished.
What a great way to kill off new teams coming in or a contest struggling to get to 25 trying to get some locals or a backyard team to jump in.
$800 to $1000 investment and you get squeamish over a $40 (I think) membership fee so that you can fully understand the rules of a contest you are contemplating entering?
Like I said find a member and suck off his teat...
Ed
I think not having access to the rules is very unlikely to be the problem.Its not about the $40. We are currently struggling to get to 25 teams for a contest this week and we are relying heavily on local teams that have never competed or wanted to in the past. This isn't their passion or hobby, but instead they are doing it because they don't want to see a local event go away. Why not make the rules accessible to the general public? If they had access to the rules beforehand, maybe we won't have to worry about them inadvertently having something wrong in the box which leads to a DQ and ultimately costs the GC a shot at the Jack and Royal.
$800 to $1000 investment and you get squeamish over a $40 (I think) membership fee so that you can fully understand the rules of a contest you are contemplating entering?
Like I said find a member and suck off his teat...
Ed
Its not about the $40. We are currently struggling to get to 25 teams for a contest this week and we are relying heavily on local teams that have never competed or wanted to in the past. This isn't their passion or hobby, but instead they are doing it because they don't want to see a local event go away. Why not make the rules accessible to the general public? If they had access to the rules beforehand, maybe we won't have to worry about them inadvertently having something wrong in the box which leads to a DQ and ultimately costs the GC a shot at the Jack and Royal.