SCAS Indoor Tournament 2007

[GreenSteve]

Just had an email from Graham Sibley confirming my entry

Anyone else gonna be there ? ? ?

[MrM]

Unfortuantely we will be at the EMAS FITA star. Shame the SCAS indoor had to be put on so late in the year.

[Jumile]

We had thought of doing this, but Hornchurch is a bit of a hike for us. Maybe if it was in Bracknell again.

[Stylisht]

Can't see it's gonna get many entries....

Would rather shoot outdoors.

[Brycedale]

Originally Posted by Stylisht

Can't see it's gonna get many entries....

Would rather shoot outdoors.

I'm afraid you are wrong, its almost full. The reason it is so late is because its becoming more and more difficult to find organisers. Graham Potts did it last year as a favour to SCAS and if it was not for Graham Sibley there would not be an event this year (2006) The 2007 event is being run by a Bedfordshire club so it may well be over on "that side" of the region, and by the looks of things there will be 2 indoor shoots in 2007.
I do appreciate that people want to take part in shoots but if there is no one to organise then there will be nothing to shoot at!! As long as there is a "name" to put on the forms (someone to blame) then there is nothing to stop a club from organising a tournament. If every body mucks in it is not too demanding and the onus is not on one bod.

[Stylisht]

Er ... Agreed.

Good luck to them, last year's event was a success under Graham (very enjoyable freecell sessions on his laptop) - hope it goes well for them this late in the year.

[moo-mop]

I'm afraid it is true that many of my club that did enter SCAS indoors last year are not doing so this year because it is effectively in the wrong season, but of course I think it must be very difficult to be on the committee of SCAS as it falls between posts of being local (counties) and national.

I think they could do with a bit of promotion, especially if they need more help. The SCAS website needs redoing too - there's no mention of the senior outdoors SCAS intercounty at all; I claimed a SCAS record last year from the self same competition and never heard anything more, there's records from my own club that were only done on target days etc and plenty of better scores that I know of... I feel an email coming on!

[Robert.Potts]

I'm hoping to shoot it this year (for a change i'm not one of the working party!) but well-done graham for taking it on.
When we finished thy shoot last year the hope was that another person or a club would offer to take on the running of the indoor not to leave it all to Graham Sibley (which would be a burden as he already runs most of the scas shoots)or my dad to continue to run, as i believe it is important that fresh blood is bought in with new ideas and ways of doing things.

[Random_guy]

Think i'm in Long mynd shooting a double 720 that weekend so shan't be there...

[Brycedale]

Originally Posted by moo-mop

I'm afraid it is true that many of my club that did enter SCAS indoors last year are not doing so this year because it is effectively in the wrong season, but of course I think it must be very difficult to be on the committee of SCAS as it falls between posts of being local (counties) and national.

I think they could do with a bit of promotion, especially if they need more help. The SCAS website needs redoing too - there's no mention of the senior outdoors SCAS intercounty at all; I claimed a SCAS record last year from the self same competition and never heard anything more, there's records from my own club that were only done on target days etc and plenty of better scores that I know of... I feel an email coming on!

I tend to agree with you moo mop, the website does need revamping and I understand that the web master is in consultation with a. n. other to do just that. When you think that SCAS is the biggest region in the country and its site has only had 29thou odd hits, (and bearing in mind that its my "home page" so it goes up by 1 every time I log on) and a small county like Bedfordshire has had just over 30thou hits it make one think.
With regards to getting more promotion this is quite difficult. I know that the SCAS general secretary asks for information to be sent to the webmaster at nearly every SCAS Council meeting. He is certain that the county reps that attend these meetings pass all his requests on to their respective counties, I am sure that they in turn pass this on the their own club reps at County meetings. Whether they pass it on is another kettle of fish.
Now about your record claim. I presume that you have downloaded the claim form from the link on the SCAS website and it also give the criteria by which a claim must be made. Ruth Hung is the SCAS Records Officer.
I do need a little clarification on something you said in the firs paragraph, "as it falls between posts of being local (counties) and national". I didn't quite understand what you meant there or am I having a "thick moment"?
Robert (in the next post) has the right idea - more fresh blood is needed. Its the same people doing the work year in and year out