Greendriver
is Blowin Smoke!
Since there has now been a public response by Jim McNair - President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Royal, I sure wish some of you long time forum members here with a handle on this issue that knows how to post a thread with a Poll included would comment and put the poll up to see how many are in favor of the Sunday turn in and how many are not (not that it will make a difference but just for the sake of knowing). What I read was that they spoke with only about 10% of the number of teams that compete and they did not name them. Anybody would have to assume that this will catch on and be the standard at more and more contest. Personally I think it is a dumb idea and if they think going to sat / sun as opposed to fri / sat is all the sudden going to make the corporate sponsors want to kick their sponsorship up a whole bunch they may be wrong because I doubt the sponsors want to be tied to the contest on Sunday anymore than I do. Three things that comes to my mind but I really cannot decide how I feel about them, are: 1) is this going to boil down to dividing the current list of teams into amateurs and professionals in the future and is that part of the purpose? 2) where should KCBS fit into all this and should or could they have a say? 3) are the big full time teams that don't have to get back to work Mon because they do this full time lined up with the contest organizers that want this change because they will have a better chance to win against a smaller field with supposedly just as much prize money? Beat me up over posting this if you want but I just want to know more about it and I'm not trying to start any arguments, this is just what I'm thinking. I am right now really looking forward to this summers 12 or 13 events that I plan to enter and have put out a bunch of doe-ray-me to do it and looks like that may not be a good thing because if the sunday trend does take hold I'm out of it and stuck with a bunch of equipment.
