[NSRCA-dist1] District Championship still something we do?

Tue Aug 19 12:36:14 AKDT 2014

Lucky, I’m not clear if this has been covered yet, but I believe that one of your contests outside D1 counts towards the district championship.  You might want to make sure that Jeff has the results from one of your contests ex-D1 if you placed favorably, so that he can count it towards the total.  This is business as usual as the DVP would not normally know where everybody in his district is competing outside the district in any given year.  If this has already been covered, so much the better.  Was good to see you flying so well at Penguin this past weekend, you will look sharp in that shirt, I wish you all the best for a successful conclusion to the season.  Dana

On Aug 19, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Anthony Romano via NSRCA-dist1 <nsrca-dist1 at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:

> Hi Lucky,
> 
>   I can appreciate your frustration and it is great you question these things. I felt the same way when trying get things moving in this district. Many unanswered emails were sent to ask CD to list their contest on the NSRCA site or send in the contest results. No one is more at fault than me since an urgent business trip kept me away from my own contest. 
> 
>   Not sure what the reason but we are a district in decline with a few determined pilots trying to keep it together. Please stick with us as we could certainly use your energy and enthusiasm to get us moving.
> 
>   I normally don't like to air dirty laundry in public but I am dragging this out there to see if we can do something about it.
> 
> Anthony 
> 
> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:46:02 -0400
> Subject: Re: District Championship still something we do?
> From: jhattonc at gmail.com
> To: luckymacy at hotmail.com
> CC: spiurc at msn.com; anthonyr105 at hotmail.com; jlachow at hotmail.com
> 
> The shoot out counts for d1 points
> 
> On Tuesday, August 19, 2014, lucky macy <luckymacy at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Good Morning,
> I have a some questions and comments.
>  
> Does this shootout count towards D1?  It's listed as a D2 contest in one area of NSRCA's website but the title implies that it could be applicable to D1.
>  
> Who's the chief in charge that should be able to clarify this?
>  
> Date: Saturday, August 30, 2014 08:00am - 05:00pm
> D1/D2 Shootout at Patuxent Aeromodelers (Helwig Field)
> Please contact Archie Stafford - CD 301-247-9298
> Event type: Contests - D2
> Results URL: http://www.nsrca.us
> 
>  
> And some advice I'd like to give, get contest information out there MUCH better.  It's like finding a needle in a haystack sometimes.  There's a facebook page and an nsrca1 email distribution list that are essentially dead/stale and the NSRCA D1 info is not up to the standards of the other Districts I've looked at carefully this summer.
>  
> I want to go to the official nsrca website for info and know I'm not missing anything.  If I look at what should be the obvious place to go, the EVENTS/RESULTS tab which is FRONT and CENTER on the NSRCA home page, there is not one iota about the Cannadaguia or the apparently upcoming final D1 contest which is only found if I drilled down under the district areas (why should I have to know that info would be there and not in the darn place that's actually setup to be a calendar and contact area)....and when I do find it under the sub sub sub district area of the website, the information is LAME.  what's AGS?  What's Frank's contact info?  Where's the location?  Where's a website link to the club's homepage? I've competed in D2 and D4 this year and have to say they have MUCH better managed information and more novice friendly.  If you want to know why D1 participation is down, just look at how a newbie would perceive the effort to get information nor the lack of offers to hold sportsman pattern primers prior to a competition so newbies aren't embarrassed to show up at a contest cold as a couple of reasons why.  Make information more logical, complete and consistent.  Have a better web presence on facebook, drum up some 'excitement', publicly celebrate success, etc.  It just comes across as a insider only, closed group...
>  
> Where's the D1 articles in K-factor?  When I competed in Toledo a couple of weekends ago I was asked if D1 pattern was healty since you can't tell from K-factor or our facebook page.  I didn't know what to tell them.
>  
> Compare  http://nsrca.us/index.php/d1-pattern-contests
>  
>  
> AGS	 	All	Frank Gioffredo	 	September 20-21	 
> 
>  
> to  
>  
> http://nsrca.us/index.php/list-events  tell me why they shouldn't be identical and why they don't have more information.
>  
> OK, off my soapbox/rant.  Just frustrated actually 'trying' to get into D1 pattern and finding it too challenging at times.
>  
> thx,
> lucky
> 
> 
> I have senjt a request to thr cds to provide me with thr results to add up the points.   All sanctioned contests in the district will count towards the point total.
> On Aug 15, 2014 9:31 AM, "lucky macy" <luckymacy at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks.  Since I see no evidence that any contest results have been turned anywhere for d1 this year how would we know what's being counted?  For example, we were told at the contest the Haverstraw results would count for sportsman but did it really?  Never saw the results posted.  
> 
> Thx,
> Lucky
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Aug 15, 2014, at 9:09 AM, "Anthony Romano" <anthonyr105 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Lucky,
> 
> I forwarded your email to the District VP Jeff Hatton who manages the district points and Sal Pui who runs the website. Below is Jeff's response.
> Have fun at Penguin! Unfortunately, I can't make it.
> 
> Anthony
> 
> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 08:15:01 -0400
> Subject: Re: Fwd: District Championship still something we do?
> From: jhattonc at gmail.com
> To: anthonyr105 at hotmail.com
> CC: spiurc at msn.com
> 
> Yes, Jim Quinn gave oyt the shirts at the meeting during the wrams show.   I am collectung the points for this year to so the same.
> On Aug 14, 2014 9:39 PM, "Anthony Romano" <anthonyr105 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: lucky macy <luckymacy at hotmail.com>
> Date: August 14, 2014, 7:17:47 PM EDT
> To: "jlachow at hotmail.com" <jlachow at hotmail.com>, "anthonyr105 at hotmail.com" <anthonyr105 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: District Championship still something we do?
> 
> Hey Guys, hope you are packing up for the contest tomorrow.
>  
> I notice the nsrca website has not been updated since 2012 per the copy and paste below nor can I find out how I stand compared to the other sportsman in the District.  What's up with all that?  Who can tell me how I stand overall?
>  
> Also, what do you get for winning district?  I noticed last weekend in D4 they had cool polo shirts for previous district champions.
>  
>  
>  
> thx,
> lucky
>  
> Past NSRCA DISTRICT-1 Champions
> (Reminder: you must have been an NSRCA member in that year in order to be considered for district champion.)
>  
> Year \ Class	401 Sportsman	402 Intermediate	403 Advanced	404  Masters	406 FAI
> 1999	Jim Quinn	Dave Funk	David Cepas	Chris Dansereau	Dave Lockhart
> 2000	Frank Gioffredo	Dan Landis	Frank Granelli	David Cepas	Dave Lockhart
> 2001	Steve Teerlink	Todd Siegel	Dave Elsner	Chris Dansereau	George Asteris
> 2002	Art Riegel	Rick Wallace	Ken Velez	Eric Henderson	Dave Lockhart
> 2003	Joe Zeigenfus	Ron Lawrence	Rick Wallace	Joe Lachowski	Dave Lockhart
> 2004	Scott Wallace	Scott Smith	Ed Alt	Ken Velez	Dave Lockhart
> 2005	Bill Markovitz	Joe Zeigenfus	Scott Smith	Steve Miller	Dave Lockhart
> 2006	Bruce Ginn	John Pavlick	Ron Lawrence	Joe Lachowski	Dave Lockhart
> 2007	David Lampron	Carl Veit	Ron Lawrence	Ken Velez	Dave Lockhart
> 2008	Neil Hunt	Bruce Ginn	Joe Zeigenfus	Joe Lachowski	Dave Lockhart
> 2009	Kosunin (Bert) Kiatkachon	Dean Lampron	Joe Zeigenfus	Steve Miller	Dave Lockhart
> 2010	Derek Gioffredo	Jeff Hatton	Riley Kissenberth	Joe Lachowski	Dave Lockhart
> 2011	Dana Beaton	Bob Moulder	Joseph Zigenfus	Joe Lachowski	Dave Lockhart
> 2012	Dana Beaton	Frank Iacobellis	Charles Moulder	Joe Lachowski	Dave Lockhart
>  	 	 	 	 	 
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