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As all good ideas in theory, a management nightmare. I nominate Greg to be in charge of managing it. Make sure you monitor all the race the results daily to see who has enough races to qualify and be there with your list of eligible riders at every state championship. After all, medals are presented at the race and not a month later. ;-)

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George Schreck
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From: Greg Crane

> I like the idea of an open and inclusive championship
> for all riders in and out of state. I do think that
> it is not, however, in the spirit of an Oregon or OBRA
> championship for a person to show up on the day of a
> race (especially from out of state) and win a medal.
>
> There is a very real issue of fairness. A very
> experienced person from out of state who has never
> been in an OBRA race could win at a level well below
> their abilities. I for one would feel very cheated if
> I came in second to a CAT 1 rider from out of state.
>
> I do not know how easy this would be to administer,
> but perhaps a rule requiring a min. number of OBRA
> races, say 5 or so, in a 12 month rolling period prior
> to qualifying for a medal. This would allow for out
> of state riders who race OBRA on a somewhat regular
> basis to win as well as insure riders are racing at
> their correct experience level.
>
> Greg
> --- Candi Murray wrote:
>
> > 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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