FISCHER,JAMES (HP-Corvallis,ex1)
Mchael,
The decision to reduce the # of races was made late in the game. It was
deemed unfair to require 8 events when so many people were planning on the
Jedi to be their 8th event. Even with the announcement of the cancellation
of the Jedi as soon as the fires broke out in southern Oregon, there were
still folks that would not make the minimum cut-offs to qualify for overall
series placings without reducing the required number of events. Thus, the
decision was made to be fair to those folks who planned to race more mid and
late season events rather than the early season events.
The decision was made by the VW/Trek Series organizer after consulting with
OBRA. We had all discussed it and felt we had the best solution.
A precedent for this had been set several years ago when the Klamath Heat
was held, but no results were submitted until the day before the Finals.
When months passed with no word from the promoter (other than that he had
left the state), we decided to drop that event. There were still a few
complaints, but it seemed fairly well received by the racers.
Races get cancelled. Generally, it's the later season events that go under
due to lack of attendance, fire danger or whatever. The Series organizer(s)
should include in the Series literature a guideline covering this
contingency. This should have been done this year, but literature was
somewhat scarce.
The Series organizer(s) and promoters can do pretty much whatever they want
as long as it is included in their literature and conforms to OBRA
guidelines for safety and fair competition. When the info has not been
included, then OBRA tries to help the organizer(s) come up with the best
solution for all. Sometimes it's a tough call.
Please keep this one on the front burner for next year. When you start
seeing Series literature from the organizer(s), bring up issues such as this
one so that it may be addressed with ample time to avoid this sort of
dissatisfaction.
Regards, Jim Fischer
OBRA
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Blahut [mailto:magic-@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 4:32 PM
To: ob-@topica.com
Subject: [OBRA Chat] MTB overall points
At the finish of the final race we were told that the format of the
entire season had been changed. Your best 8 races would no longer count
towards the overall. It would now be 7 because of a cancelled race. How
can this happen? I was locked for 5th(prize cuttoff) but was bumped to
6th. I'm really bummed.
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