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- Thread starter Glock_2010
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How many matches in a year IPSC AB has?
For comparison IPSC ON run 190 matches in 2011 (81 - L1, 35 - L2, 3 - L3), including 3 shotgun matches.
How many members do you have compared to us? we have about 1 per month in the winter and 2 per month in the summer plus provincials. I'm sure that we have far less membership than you guys hence why we have less matches.
The point is no one will help. As one of the two guys who sets up every match at our club we both put in around 130hrs each last year give or take, I am not complaining I got involved so I would better understand the game but I do not know how long we can both continue to be volunteers without help. I could be selfish and just use the time to practice instead but I am afraid that would be the end of IPSC at our club as our MD can’t do it all himself. I am not looking for compensation neither is our MD but I would gladly see a increase by a few dollars to pay for some outside help so we can continue to put on these matches and not put all the burden on our MD.
How about spend that time to encourage other member to come and help out, show them how to set up matches, paint targets, locate targets for safe angles, score, do results etc. maybe we all need to spend some time encouraging others to help out. Help change te attitudes. When I go out to shoot with the ORA at Borden everyone goes knowing that they will be expected to help set up, run the match (score, act as a safety officer, patch, pull targets in the butts) tear down, police brass and rake the back stop. Nobody shows up expecting to just shoot and leave.
A $50 for 1..1.5 hours of work is a reasonable fee IMHO. With 50..60 competitors at the match it would be a buck or two raise. Not that much of a price for getting results faster for everyone and you'd free up your own time. Personally I don't see a problem with that.
I am starting to think that Mike pretty much nailed it down. Counting too much on a free help does not exactly working in Canada...
Why would you make your competitors wait and who said it has to be volunteer sport? If quality of matches can be raised by going commercial it would only make it all better to everyone.
Maybe so, but with more clubs doing it and people running them making some profit, we could see better matches, so people won't be attending the lousy ones... The bigger problem is that most of the local clubs are privately held and they somehow don't like for-profit events.
I agree, but people would like faster result times, so in order to accomplish this without having the MD,s complete this at the end of a long day, I would rather pay someone to do it. Keep pushing MD, s and you will not have VOLUNTEERS left for this sport.
wow...this is a ####ty poll. Great way of thanking volunteers and clubs for holding matches. IF you don't like it, don't go. On the other hand...volunteer to do the stats. I have never done the stats except once and helped out other times. It is a PITA. I hate it more than picking up brass. Thankfully we have volunteers who do that locally,..and we usually comp their match fee. (the very least for volunteering to do the scores,..which is a PITA) Unless someone has a physical ailment,,,everyone helps.
That's great. My last contract was $125 per hour or part thereof. Will we contract to do the work by the match or for the season ?? Will we write the coffee and lunch breaks into the contract ??
I don't mind doing the scores but I'm not sure where the 1-1.5 hour figure comes from. At a level II with over 700 score sheets to total, verify and enter not to mention set up and importing of the shooters it takes a lot longer than 1.5 hours.
i'd be more than happy to help out any club in ontario that wants to pay me $50/hr to RO....just putting that out there! Might as well add the $0.40/km travel as well seeing as how we are going down this road.....
