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Hey Everyone, Here is the link to the class/category winners. Congrats to all. The MD Madison can't post to Enos right now and asked me to tell you the following. " The flow on the top of the hill were different on Saturday to Sunday due to a squad becoming to big. He wants to thank everyone for their patience getting through it all." Division and Class Winners.pdf

Nice job on the match book Mads!

Thanks to the staff that worked in the rain on Saturday. Congrats to all the winners.

That looks pretty pimp. You must have an amazing design coordinator. Hehe

Hey everyone just wanted to let you know that Roosters in Circleville will be the match restaurant this year. We have worked out a promo with the local GM for everyone who attends the match!

I have some pretty kick a$$ stuff I am working on for the match prize table and staff. Stay tuned people!

I am as well Jeff.

https://practiscore.com/results.php?uuid=D4622989-26D8-47A3-95BB-C136D09A4979&page=matchCombined

Check on practiscore

one of the biggest things I worked on were reloads between positions and transitions to new positions. This helped me immensely.

No way! Whether or not we can expect to beat them, the regular joes want an opportunity to have some great runs and see how they measure up against the pros. A few simple RO procedures can mitigate this issue. I think some people are forgetting that the vast majority of people in the shooting sports are honest competitors. I agree. It only takes one to ruin it for everyone.

well said!

Nice job I see B in your future soon! Stage planning comes with time. One way I got better was I squaded with higher classes shooters. I would them their plan and why. Helps you understand the thinking.

I do not support the RO's not Playing if they are working, The RO position is voluntary. I am an RO, I volunteer, I take no pay for this, I show up with the very first people, to set up, register, talk to new shooters, run a squad in 100 deg heat and -20 deg cold. Do the safety briefs. Have a safe and fun shooting experience, Stay till dark to breakdown and store all the materials, and I enjoy every minute of it. I agree that "this person" has brought great shame to himself and much can be done to improve the sport. However, There are a very small group of people dedicated to running this sport, month after month around the country, and if we don't get to play, no body gets to play!! I absolutely and emphatically agree that more training and continuing training is necessary. I hate to compare this to IDPA, but here goes. I was an IDPA S.O. also, I say WAS, because I have chosen to concentrate on USPSA exclusively, and haven's shot IDPA in 2-3 years. One thing that IDPA had right was that if, you wanted to be an SO, you would Roger up, the Club MD would set a date and time and would hold a Training Class, Class Passed, Paperwork Submitted, SO Card came in the Mail. I have been shooting USPSA, since 2007 as a non-member, I RO'd local Matches as a non-qualified RO, I became a member 2/29/12 and finally found a seat in an RO class 6/10/13. Why is this? why so few NROI classes? Why so Geographically spread out, for often a large fee charged. I was "Lucky", I attended the class for free because it was paid for by SIG Sauer Academy in conjunction with the 2013 Area 7 match. The class was Taught by John Amidon, a great instructor and a wealth of knowledge, BUT!! Is all of that really necessary. Here is my proposal, and I would gladly talk to anyone at HQ about this. 1. Establish a official RO, CRO, MD training program, maybe one exists already within NROI, I have a workbook of sorts from my RO class, great. Now take that approved curriculum, and publish it on the web for all members to see. Chapter 1, record a You Tube video, do a Powerpoint presentation something, whatever it takes, get the material out there, embed in the training material, pertinent rule changes, BoD rulings, clarifications of rules, a text document with all the "Inside NROI" columns from Front Sight. Do this for every single chapter and section in the rule book. If a shooter is interested in becoming an RO, they should be able to go onto the USPSA site, Log in, go through all the material with explanations, take an open book practice test, print out his completed test, everything. Make this a requirement to get your RO cert, before attending a class. 2. This brings me to my second point, Looking at the USPSA site under the NROI tab for the entire 2014 listing there is only ONE RO class in New England for 2014, what does that seat 20-30 students? So we have members through out Area 7 that would love to take the class, but...if they can't make it to that class they will have to wait another year or travel a very long distance. The next option would be to travel to North Carolina or Ohio. Not feasible for very many. Solution: Make more RO instructors. We have people throughout the country that have been RO'ing for years, CRO's, Match Directors, Range Masters, Masters and Grand Masters. Get them certified to put on more classes. If we establish an online training system, the class would mostly be a review, a bit of Discussion and Clarification, a Range portion with a bit of shooting and then the normal online open book test. Come on!! if we are not having at least 5-10 classes a year in each of the 8 Areas we are severely limiting our pool of staff. No wonder we can't scare up the help and people burn out. 3. Do all of the above, for all of the levels of NROI certification, I am an RO, I really want to become a CRO, and a MD, and who knows someday I might want to run for a Sectional or Area position. Back to the NROI tab. There are 4 CRO classes listed, I live in Maine, the classes are in Alaska, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia this year, Which one do you think I will be able to make it to. You Guessed it!! None!! Unacceptable. I love Shooting USPSA matches, I probably like working them a little bit better than that, I am a volunteer by nature, I served in the military, I am a natural teacher and instructor. I would love to see the sport grow, more clubs, more shooters, more matches. Give us the tools to succeed!! We are making great strides in the technology realm, Practiscore has made scoring much faster and less time consuming, but it is Garbage in and Garbage out if we are not entering scores correctly. There is no explanation for the recent events, it makes me a little sick to think about the ramifications going forward and for the people this has allegedly helped and hurt. Make an immediate rule that the RO will show the timer display to the Shooter and to the Score Keeper after the "Range is Clear" is called out. This has a couple implications. First, the shooter will see the last split, the final time and make sure that it checks out, the score keeper will see it and should repeat it back then enter it. The score keeper is the second RO on the stage, he is looking for foot faults, he is backing up the RO, he or she should be watching for extra shots, failure to engage, correct procedure followed, foot faults. The primary RO is right on the shooters heels watching for all these things, and acting as the primary safety observer, I am watching the gun, the trigger finger, the muzzle, the finger in the trigger guard while moving, I may not always be able to do all that and count the number of shots fired before a mandatory reload or whether the target was actually engaged or if there were 2 misses. That means that even at the local matches and especially at the Major matches, the Score Keeper needs to be proceeding down range with the Shooter and RO and assisting, not standing in the shade relaxing. I Highly recommend that the final split is shown and called out, and required that it is done for Major Matches. Most all, except the most antiquated timers in use show the split time on the screen. Next, put out some guidance on how to properly set up the timer for use. At a local match I have seen some real relics for timers, and many of us, my self included bring our own timers for use on the range. For major matches, that really may no longer be acceptable. We play a game where matches are won and classifications are earned by fractions of a second and single points down on a target. My timer has always to my knowledge picked up all the shots fired in a course, it has a sensitivity adjustment that I have never messed with. I am close enough to the shooter that the Sound Pressure Level of the shot being fired registers on the timer. Some have suggested that merely tapping the timer or being to close for the unload and show clear and the sound of the slide or hammer dropping will register on the timer. I don't think that is the case. In order to test my timer I either have to smack the microphone very hard or yell bang into it. Our shooting bays are usually very close together and if the guy in the next bay blasting away with his open gun, loud enough to require hearing protection in my bay is not tripping my timer then your hammer dropping one inch is sure not going to do it. That is of course as long as your timer has not been set to Air Soft sensitivity levels from your last practice session. The club should approve the use of certain makes and models of timers for official match use, they should have a laminated sheet that tells exactly how to set the timer up for match use, how to set the delay to instant, what sensitivity level to use, how to review the data etc. For a major match those timers should be taken to the chrono stage, a qualified person should verify that the timer is charged, set up correctly, and hell why not line them up on a table and fire a couple of live rounds over them to verify they work. Nothing worse than having to reshoot a shooter, or have to reshoot as a shooter because the darn timer is not working or picking up other shots. Then slap a Sticker on it that tells everyone that it has been checked and the thing should work. I am not going to be impressed when I go to a major match and I have an RO running me with a watch type timer. Nothing against the timer, but they are too new, no one understands them and I don't want to trust my match to some new toy that belongs to the RO personally and has an inertia sensor that is designed to reject shots if not worn on the shooters wrist. I better have faith that the RO knows how to operate it, the timer is set up correctly and that Air Soft mode is off and the Inertia sensor is not used. So take it with a grain of salt, dismiss my thoughts all together, comment back and give me your thoughts. Rant mode OFF! I was just simply stating what my experience was in my previous sport. That didn't work very well for paintball. I actually think there will be a decrease in staff if that were the case.

I agree with you on the additional time JFlowers. I also agree with the professional level increase for RO staff. I know when I played paintball they way around this was the crews working the events didn't play in them. I think the videos would be a great learning tool.