All opinions expressed here are my own.
This really doesn't deserve a response since it deals with hearsay, things pulled out of thin air, and statements that have been completely twisted around to suit your own purposes (AGAIN).
I much prefer to deal with facts, but anyways...
Quote:I am comparing apples to apples. I'm comparing all rally products and seeing which one was the most popular to the same customer base, the rally community.
No, you're not comparing apples to apples. You are comparing one type of event (a drivex) to a different type of event (navex), looking at the difference in entries, and drawing a conclusion.
NOWR drew an entry that is comparable with other navex events. It was budgeted accordingly. Similarly, we budget drivexes based on a number of entries that, historically, drivexes attract.
So your inference that there was a 60% drop in entries, and that we lost money on the event, is based on a badly flawed comparison. We budget costs and set entry fees based on the typical number of entries that a particular type of event would be expected to draw. We also prepare budgets for a "worst-case" or a "best-case" scenario, just in case entry levels are different from historical averages.
Quote: I heard MLRC made a paper profit but all the assets are in T-shirts which you can't use to pay for expenses and which will be written off as dead inventory by this time next year
You "heard" wrong, but hey, I'm sure you'll try to back out of this statement with some sort of platitude to make you look like the good guy ("you're doing a great job - hey, what do I know?")
Quote:Black bear, down about 50%??
Tall pines down 30% ??, only 15 cars national cars showed up down from 60 a few years ago, a drop of 75%!!!!
I said
NOT ALL EVENTS.
Let's throw in a few verifiable facts:
In 2006, Bear drew 17 entries.
In 2005, Bear drew 23 entries.
So yeah, entries were down, but nowhere near "about 50%".
In 2006, Tall Pines drew 22 National entries
not 15.
In 2005, Tall Pines drew 32 National entries.
There haven't been 60 National entries at Tall Pines in a very long time, if ever. It would be awesome if we could get that many.
So this "a drop of 75%!!!!" in national entries is complete rubbish.
Guess what the difference was? 11 US entries in 2005, and 1 in 2006. That's 10. Yes, we are taking steps to draw back some of the US entries. The problem had more to do with the event running on US Thanksgiving, which we can't do anything about. We can't move the event earlier because of the deer hunting season in Bancroft, and we can't go backwards because we don't want to get too close to Christmas.
Do you do any research at all before posting such things?
Quote: That's why I agreed to organize an April 15 gravel school to coincide with a co-driving school.
Now I hear both events are cancelled. Too bad
Here's what I wrote to you in an email a few days ago:
"I'm not organizing a course anytime soon, too much other stuff on the go. Not sure if RSO is going to go ahead with courses."
Please show me where I said the events were "cancelled". I said I couldn't give a co-driving course anytime soon - I still fully intend to give a course at some point. I have a life outside of rally, and sometimes things just have to take a back seat to other priorities.
Rather than giving up, I strongly suggest you approach somebody to help put them together.
I have completely had it with you taking comments that I make in emails, rephrasing them to change the meaning, and posting publicly. Keep it up, and you'll find that there's one person that will refuse to deal with you.