>>Just checked in with Rally radio and guess what it was a
>>solid tone once again no information how utterly useless a
>>total dissapointment.
> We had limited material to put into the pipeline for you this
>time.
Jay,
Please don't confuse frank criticism of results with criticism of your personal efforts. From a completely detached perspective, the two comments that I have clipped out are saying the same thing. The most difficult problem that "live" (whether that be streaming or simply text updates) coverage of rally has to deal with is getting information from remote locations. Scoring information via the web is something that is very useful to someone following the rally. Text messaging the scores was a very cool concept, and in an area where there is actually cell coverage at the rally, would really be helpful to teams. What nobody has been truly successful at dealing with yet is getting supporting information out. For instance, the first thing that I thought when I say the Stage 1 scores coming in was "What's wrong with Seamus's car?". When a car doesn't complete a stage, I always wonder why, and especially if they are a personal friend, I would really like to know that they are OK. If a car is slower than expected, did the team just spend a little too much time partying the night before, or is there something wrong with the car?
Most people are only willing to give up their nights and weekends, plus a few days here and there to work on a rally. Giving up a whole week (unpaid) is an effort to be commended, its just that the cart may have been a bit before the horse in this case. Besides, the real question in all of this is DID YOU HAVE FUN? If you are volunteering, that is what it is all about!
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John