>By all means Bill enlighten me and let me know which facts
>I'm missing. Would you happen to refer to the mistakes on
>the road book perhaps? I missed those facts on purpose.
no route book is perfect. The prescott book has always been light on instructions. No one else mentioned any mistakes (though that does not mean there were none) when in the past it has been mentioned, this year it was not. NO event has a perfect route book.
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>I was in the best frame of mind. Otherwise I wouldn't be
>there.
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>Please don't take my comments as an insult. If you can't
>stand constructive criticism, you will never be able to
>correct the mistakes you made.
it is not constructive if you do not offer a plausable solution to the issue at hand, it is just criticism...
> But don't insult our
>intelligences by trying to make it look like all was peachy
>and we didn't have a big SNAFU on friday.
I never said all was peachy, things were rough getting started, but everything started to fall into place, and people ran the event and had a good time. I am sorry you didn't, but you can't please everyone all of the time... Ramada Express is coming up, and they throw a great rally, maybe you can run there and have a better time...
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>BTW we were all ready to run the first stage hot if you have
>agreed to send another sweep.
the other sweep you are referring to was the 999 car, and he was supposed to be at the back of the pack (he is there for a reason). There was no one on stage, all blocks were in place, everything was set to go, the competitors (and not all of them mind you) chose not to run that stage, not me. Speak with your fellow competitors about the decisions you made on stage 1. It was ready and hot, and EVERYONE on the organizing committe was confident. You (and some other competitors) did not feel comfortable, fine, I called the stage hot and said if you don't feel safe go slower. Still no start, still uneasy feelings by some competitors, fine, it is your race, if you want to transit then transit, YOU canceled the stage, I simply complied with your wishes. I gave you what you all were asking for. Don't jump on me for it... The word I got from the start of stage 1 was that all 24 competitors wanted to transit, so I let you. When I spoke to some teams at service I found out that it was not all 24, and by some counts much less than half, and some were VERY adamant about WANTING to run, and not new commers mind you, experienced people, that I would trust with my life. Had I known that I WOULD NOT have transited that stage... hindsight I guess... The rest of the event went off well, with some delays and changes, but everyone adapted and overcame them. The vast majority had a good time on some great roads, so my goal was accomplished... Again I am sorry you had a bad time...
edit: bad spelling, it's been a while since i slept...
