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  1. For those of you attending who haven't checked your
    email...I thought you might want to know what’s up
    with Motorama.

    Course Setup Course setup will be completed Friday. So far
    it looks like the following guys will be there: Kris Holm,
    Mike Menichini, Ben Plotkin-Swing, Joey Cohn, Dan Lucal,
    Bill Hamilton, Brian Maw, Jeff Prosa.

    I will gladly accept voluntary cash donations to help buy
    materials. Last year I spent $100 at Home Depot. This year,
    I expect to spend about $200-$300 on wood in order to build
    a great course. If each person chipped in, I would greatly
    appreciate this.

    Scorecard Please take a look at the attached MS Word
    document and let me know what you think of the score card I
    put together. In case you didn’t catch this before, the
    competition will be run as follows:

    1. Bike sections will be assigned u-style point values.
    2. Attempts on bike sections will be limited to the number
    allotted by the event.
    3. Bike section judges will use bike-trials score cards and
    will be instructed to watch simply for cleans or
    failures. (Yielding point values of 0 or 5). Stratodabs
    will not be permitted for unicyclists. I am suggesting
    that we use bike-trials scorecards on the bike sections
    and transfer the results to the unicycle score cards
    after the competition. This will eliminate confusion on
    the bike sections and keep things as simple as possible.
    4. Unicycle sections will be run according to the u-system.
    If you need a copy of the u-system rules, let me know.

    The suggested score card allows us to keep track of “on-
    sight” or “first-try” cleans which could potentially be used
    as a tiebreaker. As Kris had mentioned, we will need to make
    sure that we can accurately record first attempts. This may
    be difficult, but if it doesn’t work out, nothing is lost

    Safety Requirement Reminder The U-system trials rules
    require that helmets, knee and shin protection, and gloves
    or wrist guards are used with no exceptions.

    Registration Don’t forget that pre-entry applications must
    be postmarked by Feb 1. I believe the fee goes up after 2/1,
    but it’s not exactly clear on the online form.

    Competitor List It looks like we will have 20 or more
    riders. I know some of you by first name only – sorry about
    that. I’m guessing at some of your locations also. Let me
    know if you have corrections to this list.

    Massachusetts Ben Plotkin Swing Joey Cohn Dan Lucal

    New York Mike Menichini Joe Merrill Lazslo

    New Jersey Brian Maw Jeff Prosa Dave Kimmel? Scott Bridgman?

    Connecticut Tim Colegrove plus 2 (Jonathan Sigworth…?)

    Pennsylvania Bill Hamilton Chris Wonderly Mike Carroll
    Phillip Nick

    Virginia Frank Trip Glazer

    Vancouver Kris Holm

    Toronto ? Jeff Groves plus 2 ? Hey guys, What’s up?

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  2. Are we going to use the hole punch system on this one?

    I think that works better than using pens to check off
    cleaned or not for sections.

    I was also thinking with this card someone (judge or rider)
    might "get confused" if they had done a section before. What
    about instead of doing a 1st try clean, you do a 1st try
    failure. Then there will be no question if a rider has
    cleaned a section on the first try or not.

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  3. Mike - Good idea to mark the card for a 1st try failure. I
    think you're right - it would greatly eliminate confusion.

    Don't forget that with the u-system, we could have up to 30
    sections and we will be self-judging. Because of this I
    think hole punches would present problems:

    1. We would need a boatload of hole punchers, preferably the
    kind that makes a tiny hole and isn't easily duplicated.
    Somebody would need to find these buy, them etc...

    2. Hole punches tend to mangle the card. With the current
    scoring system, the proposed card could have up to 106
    marks or punches. If hole punches are used, the score
    card will be decimated by the end of the competition.

    3. The u-system requires two observers to initial the card
    in the case of self judging - which we will definitely
    be doing. As and additional improvement, I'm thinking
    each judge could mark the card clearly with his name and
    rider number - this might be less ambiguous than an
    initial. Hole punches would open a very inviting
    opportunity for fraud
    - not that any of us would do that 🙂

    What do you think?

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