Heaps of entries received! The Naish River Race 2012, is gonna be bigger and better than ever!

JBFletch said...

12'6 race isn't till lunchtime, i might have to pack the swag and sleep under a tree before my start

JBFletch, There will be plenty to do, lots of different boards to try out, a few of the sponsors will be expoing their products! You can also enter the handicap race if your looking to get your race on earlier!

Getting close. Should be a great day.

lookToSea said...

Looking at doing a few training/time trial runs on the weekend if anyone is interested

Yep Sunday is good for me after 2pm ?

Boylos

Still confused why regos have closed so early and why you can't register on the day? Is this a SUPSA thing?

Hey thanks for making it simple for me ... But no need to be condescending champ.

Got it that you have to plan and cost the event. My point is some of us would like to participate in your event but can't commit due to other factors that won't be sorted until a few days prior. It's a shame. You could charge folks more for on day rego and balance the risk against the projected cost. If you factor in your baseline attendance then you should be able to asesses this accurately. Simply by not guaranteeing an event shirt for late entries you could easily factor in more flexibility into your event. This is called a risk mitigation strategy ... You learn it in event management 101 ... But I'm not here to educate you am I.

Got it that you need more time for the handicap set up ... Why not program it later? Other events let you walk in on the day and it is a 'fun' event isn't it? ... It isn't the world titles ...

Anyway I wish your 50 competitors good luck on the day, shame there won't be more ...

Casso said...

SUPfrother said...

Got it that you have to plan and cost the event. My point is some of us would like to participate in your event but can't commit due to other factors that won't be sorted until a few days prior. It's a shame. You could charge folks more for on day rego and balance the risk against the projected cost. If you factor in your baseline attendance then you should be able to asesses this accurately. Simply by not guaranteeing an event shirt for late entries you could easily factor in more flexibility into your event. This is called a risk mitigation strategy ... You learn it in event management 101 ... But I'm not here to educate you am I.

Got it that you need more time for the handicap set up ... Why not program it later? Other events let you walk in on the day and it is a 'fun' event isn't it? ... It isn't the world titles ...

Great points. I missed out on registration by one day (after a few things that weekend freed up for me) and now can't attend.

Most other races (and a lot of surf comps) have a "rego on the day" option.

Not sure why there is so much aggro over a closing date for entries. The Naish River Race is organised by a local club, CSSUPC Inc, which is in its second year. Supporting the race is supporting the future of a local club and unite the greater SUP community. The club is planning on running the River Race every April.

The decision, which was not made easily, to have a closing date was made by the club to mitigate the risk of cost (The club is putting up a lot of the cost in prizes, not to mention shirts, insurances and licensing), even though we could charge extra for late entries, it was decided that it would be better to have the costs covered early. Also if weather isn't favourable people will still turn up.

If you couldn't commit early you could let the organisers know, I'm sure something could have been worked out. Would be great to see you guys racing! (Feel free to PM me).

The Naish River Race is going to be a fun day of racing, it is a shame that people are trying to bring the event down by being so negative, about something so trivial.

I hope in the future there will be less negativity towards people organising events, and more support!

I encourage you to come down to the event even if you are not competing, the River Race was a great day last year, and was fun for both spectators and competitors, this year is going to be even bigger and better with several sponsors going to expo their products, it will be a great day, and support a local club.

What are the prizes for the kids this time? Last time the prizes that were promised to them for 1st and 2nd place got raffled of , they waited all day for the preso and got nothing not to mention there names were changed in the local paper....sorry to bring some neg but just wondering if its going to be like that again???

I would have thought you would just wanted as many people to enter as possible to get people into the event and help the event grow as word of mouth is great advertising for future events...
I was thinking of coming down on the day with Casso and entering on the day ... Didn't even realize you could guess I should read things more? Oh well have a good day racing!!

timopop said...

I'm out for the reason of having to sign on at 7.30 and not racing till 2pm for a sprint race.

Yeah - that's a bit rough.

You local guys should head on down anyway.. Have a fun social paddle.. and cheer the guy/gal/kid races on.. and join in the fun even if you don't race yourself..

DJ

Great to see SUP contests have the same 'enquiries' as my surf or sailing events. A very big congratulations to all the club volunteers who have put the event together and given up their time money and skill for the benefit of others. Hope you have a great event and it continues to grow. Im sure it will.

I organise a lot of events and the entry cut-off can be a problem both ways - you want to be as flexible as possible to give everyone a chance to enter but it's also nice to know what you are dealing with financially as just trophies can cost an arm and a leg and there is nothing worse than making up trophies and there is noone in the class to take them home.

Having said that I normally do allow on the day registration as sport is still young and we're still looking for the numbers.

What does look problematic to me is how a lot of events are trying to accommodate everyone and his waveboard - in this race we have 4 different board classes for 50 competitors? Thats 4 classes x 3 winners x Ladies and Mens = 24 podiums......and thats not counting the number of disciplines you have or trying to introduce age groups as well. It doesn't make sense.

Instead of trying to please everyone with their purchase I firmly believe event-organisers should force people into a single class and that class should be 14's - you can bring whatever you want but you can't win a prize on an unlimited and you probably won't on a 12'6 or waveboard. Then it's up to the competitors to choose their board - do you want to stand a chance of winning? Then bring a 14'.

If we want to make events viable then we need to limit the amount of classes to mens ladies and juniors and if you want a trophy you must bring a 14'. I do believe in having a shorter course for novices as the full length long distance racing will scare off first timers - but try that with 4 classes and you have 48 winners out of 50 entrants....

We as organisers have the chance to affect the future classes by implementing them now and it's working pretty well here in SA - we only have 14's because thats what we cater for in our races.

JBFletch said...

Just checking.
Do we really need to be at the 730 rego if our race isnt until 1215??

Conditions look good cheers

7.30 is registration for all races.
You got it easy, those of us setting up will be there for 5.00, just so there is somewhere for you to register at 7.30.

JasonProsser said...

JBFletch said...

Just checking.
Do we really need to be at the 730 rego if our race isnt until 1215??

Conditions look good cheers

7.30 is registration for all races.
You got it easy, those of us setting up will be there for 5.00, just so there is somewhere for you to register at 7.30.

Waaaaaaaaaaaa!