<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dan, seems to me the attendance problem is worse than these number indicate, when you consider the cancellations we had this year. Look at Oakdale this year Vs a few years ago for example. A good litmus test will be Sacramento in a few weeks, traditionally very well attended.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dale</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 14, 2017, at 11:01 AM, Daniel Lipton via NSRCA-dist7 <<a href="mailto:nsrca-dist7@lists.nsrca.org" class="">nsrca-dist7@lists.nsrca.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hello d7ers..<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Recently a fellow member raised to me the issue of diminishing contest attendance. I decided to take a look at the data (based on <a href="http://www.patternscoring.com/" class="">www.patternscoring.com</a>), </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">choosing the April contest at Bear Mountain fliers, as that is a popular destination for the district.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2017: 30</div><div class="">2016: 37</div><div class="">2015: 39</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">And Another popular D7 contest is the Orange country event.</div><div class="">2017: 21</div><div class="">2016: 27</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Desert pattern challenge: (Arizona)</div><div class="">2017: 21</div><div class="">2016: 29</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If anybody has any thoughts on this, I'd love to hear them.</div><div class="">Thanks</div><div class=""> Dan.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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