762nato said:
So with your admittedly minimal contribution
Andy, don't be deliberately ignorant. Re-read my last post for my contributions.
what is your suggestion to keep these matches from being cancelled?
It's like this: I wouldn't cross the street to piss on you, if there was a fire in your hair, let alone help you with an IPSC match. I feel that way, because of the way you've behaved, every single time I've met you. If you were drowning, I'd throw you an anvil. You treat people like ####, Andy, and it makes them (quite justifiably) dislike you.
If the match director can't bring himself to be polite to the people who volunteer to work on his match, those workers will never come back. If the match director can't refrain from abusing the goodwill of the volunteers who come out, they will never come out again. It's just that simple.
I'll try to put it simply: If you're an ignorant bastard, don't try to put on IPSC matches. You will destroy IPSC at the club. Or like 6 clubs. In the last few years.
Perhaps we could just phone a construction company and have them build a match and raise the fee's to compensate for the expense. Oh that would not work as they would have no knowledge of our sport or how to design and implement a challenging match.
So I guess weather some of us like it not, we need experienced people to set this stuff upand keep it running on time and produce the results afterward.
And yet the matches still got cancelled... hmmm... sounds like what you are suggesting just ain't enough, hey? Maybe being "experienced" is not, in and of itself, sufficient.
The CEO of McDonalds gets paid millions every year. Why? It's not because he can flip burgers. It's because he can *manage*.
The only other solution is some expert critic such as yourself should step up to the plate and show us how it is done. I for one would love to shoot a match of such a high caliber. So please feel free!!!
So why didn't you come to the last EOHC level 2? I sort of recall putting that on.
