June 9 @ Brooksville
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 11:58 am
Registration opens tonight!
Starting this thread off with some not-fun, but necessary, announcements:
NEW GUEST POLICY for Brooksville events:
Based on discussion here, we've decided to limit guests to 5 persons to allow for 70 drivers to register.
The following is directly from the event info posted on MAE:
Nothing new here, been doing it this way for the past few months, just reiterating...
With the exception of a very small number of people approved by each event chairman, all of the volunteer work that people do to help get an event set up is just that, "volunteer work". We appreciate it, but if we call each of those 20 different little jobs a "work assignment" and pull those people out of the regular event worker pool, we end up with less than 50 people to work 3 run groups. You do the math. It doesn't work. We need almost everyone in the regular work rotation, and that's one of the reasons that the "traditional" pre-event worker list was nixed. People on that list had the expectation that they would have no other work assignment, and it just wasn't working.
The other reason you don't see the pre-event worker list is that people were volunteering for all the "easy jobs" (timing, grid, whatever) early and being promised that job on the list... and then as the event drew nearer (or on event day), we'd find that we had people who COULD NOT work a regular work assignment (due to physical limitations) and no place to put them... leaving holes in the course worker assignments. Couple that with a lot of the people being the first to volunteer for "easy" work assignments were not always the best-qualified for those positions.
So, the way things are done now is simple: You put your work position request on your registration. If you have physical limitations, you list those in the comments of your registration (every time... don't expect us to remember). Then, after pre-registration is closed, we will work out the run/work groups and assign workers based on:
Starting this thread off with some not-fun, but necessary, announcements:
NEW GUEST POLICY for Brooksville events:
Based on discussion here, we've decided to limit guests to 5 persons to allow for 70 drivers to register.
The following is directly from the event info posted on MAE:
- We must limit guests to 5 total, so only one guest per driver, and once we reach 5, we can accept no more. (sorry, the airport limits us to 75 persons total)
- IMPORTANT: Guests must REGISTER SEPARATELY for $5 under the class "NON-DRIVERS". And if there are 5 guests already registered in that class, they will be canceled without refund. CHECK the registration list before registering a guest, only 5 are allowed. Period.
Nothing new here, been doing it this way for the past few months, just reiterating...
With the exception of a very small number of people approved by each event chairman, all of the volunteer work that people do to help get an event set up is just that, "volunteer work". We appreciate it, but if we call each of those 20 different little jobs a "work assignment" and pull those people out of the regular event worker pool, we end up with less than 50 people to work 3 run groups. You do the math. It doesn't work. We need almost everyone in the regular work rotation, and that's one of the reasons that the "traditional" pre-event worker list was nixed. People on that list had the expectation that they would have no other work assignment, and it just wasn't working.
The other reason you don't see the pre-event worker list is that people were volunteering for all the "easy jobs" (timing, grid, whatever) early and being promised that job on the list... and then as the event drew nearer (or on event day), we'd find that we had people who COULD NOT work a regular work assignment (due to physical limitations) and no place to put them... leaving holes in the course worker assignments. Couple that with a lot of the people being the first to volunteer for "easy" work assignments were not always the best-qualified for those positions.
So, the way things are done now is simple: You put your work position request on your registration. If you have physical limitations, you list those in the comments of your registration (every time... don't expect us to remember). Then, after pre-registration is closed, we will work out the run/work groups and assign workers based on:
- The Club's Needs - Qualifications
- The Driver's Needs - Physical Limitations, etc.
- The Driver's Requests - Yes, that's our last priority. Sorry.
. Then please by all means, if someone else has something in mind, please feel free to design a course and be the chair of the event. 
