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:
- Bike sections will be assigned u-style point values.
- Attempts on bike sections will be limited to the number allotted by the event.
- 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.
- 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?