Name the 2006 ISSCA National Convention of Membership in Indiana July 3 – 7, 2006.

CHANGE THE DATE.

Besides, I think SCCA nationals are always that weekend at IRP anyway... at least they always have been

There is no reason on earth to be so tight on the date of an event that is 10 months away.

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I'll say it again, cause I think it got lost in all this .

Changing the date is NOT AN OPTION. Why? Can't get the event sites to all line up on ANY other week during June/July. ALL of the other options were already taken by one venue or another.

And folks wonder why you need to plan these things 12+ months out . It ain't like you can just show up at the venue a few weeks before and request a date .

BK : add RODarama (Father's Day Weekend) to that list. About the same attendance this year as LISST Drag Day (2004 LISST Drag Day, BTW).

Originally posted by AutocroSSer:

Changing the date is NOT AN OPTION. Why? Can't get the event sites to all line up on ANY other week during June/July. ALL of the other options were already taken by one venue or another.

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I think for a lot of reasons, this is why having a "permanent" venue and date for the ISSCA Nationals makes an awful lot of sense.

BK is right that there are not so many large B Body events that we can't possibly do them all in a year without bumping into each other. There are weekends that will work and once we agree that's a good course of action we can pick up the pieces and move forward.

Having the event the same date and location every year is going to give us more clout with the venues, more clout with the hotels, and make it so that instead of reinventing the event every year in a new location we're building on last year's success.

I may not be speaking for every member in Region 11 when I say this, but I believe that a lot of the concern with the July 4th date isn't so much that this year (2006) is going to be packed on top of itself, it's that we've gone though a three years of that now and there was a great deal of concern that was a trend that was going to continue. It took this long to make bubbles on the surface because until the ISSCA nationals took place in our neck of the woods, many region 11 members (myself included) had never attended an ISSCA National event. That wasn't because of the distance but because it was always just about impossible when it was right on top of LISST Drag Day and Carlisle. Now that we've been to one, I think most if not all of us want to add it to our yearly plans, but not at the expense of other large regional things that we've been doing for years already. I think most people would feel like that also faced with the same decisions.

Speaking for myself, and I hope a majority of the region 11 membership too, I think we can work with 2006 being a little tight so long as we're breaking the cycle of having to deal with the same conflict year after year. We might have to leave Indy on thursday night or friday morning to make it, but we can get everywhere we need to be in time.

ISSCA has acknowledged that they are now aware of these dates and how important they are to us in the NorthEast. I think that's a big accomplishment for everybody, and that should hopefully mean that we can find a workable solution in the future. A little confidence in ISSCA from the Northeast membership and everyone else that we're going to keep working on that solution wouldn't hurt either.

I wasn't originally fond of the idea of a set venue for this event until I gave it some thought and realized how it would help us improve the event in many ways, this date conflict issue being one of them.

-dW

ISSCA Director, Region 11

Bill and Kenny are both hitting the nail right on the head, so I'm not going to bother re-stating exactly what the two of them have said, but I would like to point out that what DW said in his post is probably the best point anyone has made yet. I'm in Region 10...right next door to 11, and another hour or 2 further from all of the previous ISSCA national events. I never had a snowballs chance in hell of making those events, but regardless of that, I made it to SSHS4, and I made it to the Poconos. I had so much fun at both events that the reason I am arguing so much is that I want to make sure I can attend them and others again...these big events are what makes owning the car truly fun. I don't want to have to choose between events, I don't want to have to attend one then spend the night driving to attend the other so that I'm tired at the next one...I'll really wholeheartedly consider doing it this one time, IF and only if ISSCA will give us an EXACT rundown of EXACTLY what happened in all of the decision making processes as far as where to go and then when to go, including how they feel regional clubs were informed of the chance to make proposals that 99% of the ISSCA population seem to have missed and how they went about looking at what other big annual events were already scheduled to try to avoid causing this problem in the first place...and then after the BOD outlines that as accurately as possible, they need to afford the club an opportunity to vote to hold all future ISSCA nationals on a set weekend at a set location.

The club is "By the members for the members", therefore the members, including myself, everyone else posting on these threads and everyone not posting on these threads, need to be made aware of exactly what happened so that they can see where the holes in the decision making process are. This affords those members the opportunity to make a change in the BOD the next time their region comes up for an election. I know there's regional e-mail lists, and I know there's this forum as well as the ability to post an official statement on the ISSCA website as well as sending out a letter to every member...ISSCA doesn't have to use all of those, but they certainly should take advantage of at LEAST one of them.

Originally posted by SSee SSpot Run:
rare breed?
rock on, rus

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I think they call it rare breed because there were few survivors!

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