Joe Cipale

Hoooboy... let the smack-down start...

Many of us who live in Vancouver and race in OBRA because the nearest WA race is up North at Mason Lake.

Otherwise we are looking at making long drives to race 'in state'. As long as I have been a member (going on 15 years now), OBRA has never excluded based on state of residence, nor should they. If a OBRA member lives in Washington... or Idaho... or California and takes advantage of what promoters have to offer, then they should be eligible to win OBRA Championships.

Joe C.

tackyglueit wrote:

> why would someone from Vancouver count? i don't see why frequently racing
> outside the state you live in qualifies you for out of state championship
> privileges?
>
>
>
> On 5/7/07, Tim Schauer wrote:
> >
> > Yep! There are certainly a lot of loyal, very actively racing, long time
> > OBRA members, that reside in SW Washington. There are even a few good
> > OBRA events up on this side of the river too!...;-)
> >
> > -Tim Schauer
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
> > Behalf Of Candi Murray
> > Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 3:32 PM
> > To: masessa@charter.net; obra@list.obra.org
> > Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] State Championships
> >
> > Yes that is indeed the rule. Out of our 2032 riders currently jut over
> > 230 come from California or Washington. I have tried to get away from
> > calling them the State Championships and just calling them the OBRA
> > championships Candi
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
> > Behalf Of masessa@charter.net
> > Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 3:20 PM
> > To: OBRA
> > Subject: [OBRA Chat] State Championships
> >
> > From what I can gather the qualifications for the Oregon State
> > Championships, in any event, is that the racer be an annual OBRA license
> > holder. Is that all that's needed? And has this been examined in the
> > recent past? The reason I'm asking is that this weekend at the Spring
> > Thaw, in at least one case, someone from Central California bought an
> > annual license and took home a State Championship medal (3rd place).
> > This just seems wrong to me. I don't know if he did it just for that
> > reason or he thought he might come up for another race. I didn't see him
> > listed as doing any other Oregon races.
> > Any thoughts on requiring a person to be an Oregon resident to qualify?
> > Dave M
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