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

Tue Aug 19 20:50:46 AKDT 2014

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From: NSRCA-dist1 [mailto:nsrca-dist1-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of
Anthony Romano via NSRCA-dist1
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 2:28 PM
To: Jeff Hatton; lucky macy; district one
Cc: Joe Lachowski; Sal Piu
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-dist1] District Championship still something we do?

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 

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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
<http://nsrca.us/index.php/list-events/eventdetail/230/-/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 <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

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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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