Nik Habicht Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 I'll tag onto Shred's idea of highlights and lowlights: Highlights: Being in a squad full of forum members is a lot like being on forum --- except better because you can see facial expressions and there are guns going off. Listening to the ROs making fun of Kyle and Steve racing each other in the dry-fire area before our first stage. Those two really brought their game, they were dryfiring the standards strings in the dry-fire area this morning ---- with a timer going off set to a 4.7 second par time. Erik's a little too hard on himself with this "second rate" qualifier before his M card; he's up to at least "first-and-a-half" status. Anderson throwing a no-shoot mike on the first stage, and then leaning back around a wall to make it up strong hand only. Shooting our first stage well enough that Anderson labeled me the squad's most precise shooter. Stage construction and match staff. Props are solid and overbuilt --- they're Nik tested and approved. The staff has been nothing but friendly and helpful --- even when they were disagreeing with us about re-shoots and procedurals. Lowlights: Coming back to the truck in the range parking lot Sunday evening and discovering the right quarterglass broken. Highlight within: The helpful loan of a roll of duct tape from forum members Hoser and Dminor, which allowed me to limp into Quincy. Discovering that glass places will come to the hotel to repair the window. Trying --- and therefore failing to live up to the "most precise" label. The dreaded low port and prone stage --- I could only see the C and D zones on most targets, and was slow to boot. 34 points in 37 seconds doesn't equate to a good run..... More to come.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdj Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 Highlights:Being in a squad full of forum members is a lot like being on forum --- except better because you can see facial expressions and there are guns going off. Friday's get together will be interesting since it seems every other person I run into here is a forum member. I'm interested in seeing how many name tags come out on the day. I can truthfully say that I'll never look at some avatars in the same way again :-). Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trey Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 prelims are up @ uspsa.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sterling White Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 Squad 35 - with many BE'rs are getting the job done. No major blunders so far...I think everyone on the squad has encountered a mike or no shoot with the exception of maybe a couple of shooters. We are all enjoying one anothers company and the match (so far) has been good. The half day format is working well. Heard rumors that JJ, Eric G., and Max are battling for hoa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcoliver Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 prelims are up @ uspsa.com Would it be too much to ask to have it pasted here, too? Back here from across the globe we're also very excited but have no access to USPSA's website. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Pinto Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 There's no value reading interim results, because it depends on who has shot what stages. For example, the guy currently leading the pack in Open Division is a C grader, and he is shown as currently beating Eric Grauffel, Max Michel & JJ Racaza, and in Revolver Division, a B grader is shown as beating Jerry Miculek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diehli Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 What Vince said. It would take copying and pasting the results from each stage for each Division for there to be anything to compare... I'm not up to that task. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Pinto Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 For those who are interested, here is a breakdown of Divisional support: Open:........... 211 competitors (43%) Limited:........ 158 competitors (32%) Limited 10:.... 43 competitors (9%) Production:.... 59 competitors (12%) Revolver:....... 17 competitors (4%) Total:............ 488 competitors. There also seems to be a number of "no shows" - Open 26, Limited 15, Production 2, Revolver 1. I also find it interesting that there are more competitors in the relatively new Production Division than the well established Limited 10 Division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diehli Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 L10 and Production were established at the same time, weren't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Pinto Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 L10 and Production were established at the same time, weren't they? Subject to correction by a USPSA BOD member, I believe L10 was established soon after (and in response to) the "Assault Weapons Bill" in 1994. Production Division was only approved at the General Assembly in Cebu in 1999 and did not actually start until Y2K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detlef Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 There's no value reading interim results must disagree. You can compare how people are doing relatively that shot the same stages. I find it quite exciting to see JJ and Max lead Eric (!), Rob lead Phil, and David ahead of his competition. Damn I couldn't go (ultimately Ivan's fault, the storm, not the forum member...)! --Detlef Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriggerT Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 L10 and Production were established at the same time, weren't they? Subject to correction by a USPSA BOD member, I believe L10 was established soon after (and in response to) the "Assault Weapons Bill" in 1994. Production Division was only approved at the General Assembly in Cebu in 1999 and did not actually start until Y2K. L-10 and Production were established at the same time. I know this because when I first started to shoot USPSA I shot my single stack in Limited, and was happy to see the L-10 division come into being in 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKooi Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 Detlef is right. You know that Max and Eric have shot the same stages as they are on the same squad. Same goes for the Limited guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Pinto Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 You guys are absolutely correct when it comes to seeing the placings of the top match contenders in the same squad, but there are competitors in other squads who are also top match contenders. Anyway each to his own but, for me, the show's not over 'till the fat lady sings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtypool40 Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 Yup, our own SmittyFL is not on the Lim ss, but is a strong GM and is out in front in the interim standing. Make them chase you down Shannon!!! Run like hell!!! Hell if ANY interim standings showed ME(?) atop the Nationals scoreboard, I'd tell EVERYBODY and print copies to hang on the frdige. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhino Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 There are some privacy issues associated with posting results of the big matches in public places too, which is why USPSA moved match results to the members' area. That's why I post club match results publically ... because everyone knows I'm going to do it and could complain if they wanted, but I wouldn't do it with the Indiana Section Match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgary Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 Subject to correction by a USPSA BOD member, I believe L10 was established soon after (and in response to) the "Assault Weapons Bill" in 1994. Someone call my name? The "blue book" (1995) did not have Limited-10 in it, nor did either of its updates (1996 and 1998). The only divisions were Open, Standard and Modified (IPSC), Open and Limited (US). In 2000, with the US publication of the "toilet-paper" rulebook, both Production and Limited-10 came into being, and Revolver was "promoted" from a category to a division. Interestingly, as early as 1996, the USPSA Board considered making Limited a 10-round-only division, but the motion failed, and no action was taken until the 2000 rulebook came out. Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Pinto Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 In 2000, with the US publication of the "toilet-paper" rulebook, both Production and Limited-10 came into being, and Revolver was "promoted" from a category to a division. I stand corrected, and I'm glad I didn't put any money on when L10 was introduced Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritinUSA Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 The stats crew are not processing the entire squad score-sheets at the same time. They are driving round the range and picking up whatever score-sheets are completed. It is possible therefore that some of the interim results do not contain every member of the super-squad. So I would take these interim results with a pinch of salt... It rained big-time this afternoon, we had a few little showers this morning but around 11am it started to rain heavily and was still raining when I left at 1pm. Tonight is the USPSA annual meeting, it runs from 7pm-8pm, it should be interesting... There is thunder and lightening outside the hotel right now (4:45pm)... No idea what it is doing at Barry (abotu 30 miles away) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireant Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Where can I find the interim results on the USPSA site? I've looked, but cannot find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 major match results. then select "us handgun nationals" from the list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j1b Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Looks like Steve Broom is winning Lim-10 Manny is winning limited with TGO 1 pt behind JJ is winning open, followed by Max followed by Eric Dave is winning Production with Angus following Julie looks to be winning production in womens class That's all I can remember. This assumes the above individuals have shot the same courses of fire (in other words their in the same squads) Hope this helps JB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detlef Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 rest easy, only 1 or 2 days of shooting are posted... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 since those were up thismorning Wednesday wasn't in the mix. it looks like each competitor has fired 4 stages to me...??? how many days of shooting is there. i thought it was 6 days with 4 stages/day. (mon through sat.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j1b Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 No worries detlef - Just thought those who didn't have access would be interested in where things were at. If watching the race were no fun, they'd never televise football games, they'd just give the results. Part of the drama (to me) is seeing things unfold. JB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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