I guess the question I would like to ask Dr BBQ is, what would you like to have seen KCBS do differently? I reread your OP and I am not sure...I mean are you just ruffled that You did not get selected, or do you think the selection process was flawed? What should have been changed?
Harwell - Y, Lohman - N, Goycochea - Y, Shupe - N, Bigler - N, Bragg - Y, Lake - Abstain, Budai - N, Simmons - Absent, Kirk - Absent, Whitebook - Absent With (4) Nays, (3) Ayes and (1) Abstain. Motion failed.
Seems to me they took the vote knowing 3 folks were absent, why? Even the soft spoken, mild mannered person that I am might take exception to that. And why did one BOD abstain? As an almost 10 year Member of KCBS these are the question I find impossible to get an answer to and it just leads to apathy on my part and not wanting to participate with KCBS, other then to judge contests.
So, again, what sould the BOD have done differently?