danjordan78 Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Just saw they posted the 2015 dates for June 18-20 in St. George, UT. Hmmm, gonna have to think about that one.... Not on the SCSA webpage (which other than the 2014 results hasn't been updated since 2012!), but it's on the USPSA Nationals page. Haven't updated the worldspeedshoot.com yet either. Really hope they start paying attention to Steel Challenge a little more soon. Pretty sad how they almost completely ignore it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottlep Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 I emailed Ken Nelson, the WSSC match director, a little over a week ago asking if they had set dates yet and he said no. Odd that it shows on the USPSA Nationals website, but nowhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinginlead Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 I am working on getting some things for our club for Steel Challenge. I was writing the President since I could not get any one at the main office to call me back or answer my emails. He said .... We’ll look into it, but please understand that we’re fully engaged with Shot Show AND our in-person BOD meeting this weekend. We hope to address many of the Steel Challenge issues we’re facing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Anderson Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Yes, you can read here the agenda for the meeting. http://uspsa.org/document_library/2015/Jan%20Agenda%20Announce.pdf And before you look them up the bylaws listed for review have nothing to do with the Steel Challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ming the Merciless Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Not on the SCSA webpage (which other than the 2014 results hasn't been updated since 2012!), but it's on the USPSA Nationals page. Haven't updated the worldspeedshoot.com yet either. Really hope they start paying attention to Steel Challenge a little more soon. Pretty sad how they almost completely ignore it... I really hope they start paying attention to anything! Nothing gets updated on ANY of the websites, the Facebook pages are little better, the Nationals are outsourced and adrift with no support from the organization, and headquarters seem capable of only addressing one item at a time (slowly, & incompletely as it appears with the tech upgrade promised how many years ago? Etc...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackJones Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I am working on getting some things for our club for Steel Challenge. I was writing the President since I could not get any one at the main office to call me back or answer my emails. He said .... We’ll look into it, but please understand that we’re fully engaged with Shot Show AND our in-person BOD meeting this weekend. We hope to address many of the Steel Challenge issues we’re facing. Have you dealt with Jake Martens on anything? If not drop him a line and he should be able to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danjordan78 Posted January 26, 2015 Author Share Posted January 26, 2015 That's a good excuse. I wonder what they would say their reason is the other 50 weeks out of the year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinginlead Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Zack, I have not dealt with any one at USPSA. No one there likes to return calls or emails. I have had some stuff I needed addressed for over 6 months. According to the president, it is all because the SHOT show has every one tied up, but when I mentioned emails and calls from 6 months ago he does not address it then brings up the SHOT show again. Of course, no calls or emails today either. So it is Day 1 ASS. (after Shot Show) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackJones Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Sent you a PM, slinginlead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALRAY Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Does anyone know what the latest is? Is there any additional info on this match, or even confirmation that it is happening? Apart the dates shown on the Nationals page and listed in Front Sight, I haven't been successful in finding anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottlep Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I heard through the grapevine that the dates have been set for June 18-21 with the match running in Utah again, but I don't think any official announcements have been made. Not sure what they are waiting for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hostetter Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 The worst thing to happen to the Steel Challenge in the last 20 years is for USPSA to buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ming the Merciless Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 The worst thing to happen to the Steel Challenge in the last 20 years is for USPSA to buy it. With the current leaderless-ship and headquarters staff of USPSA I agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outerlimits Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 The worst thing to happen to the Steel Challenge in the last 20 years is for USPSA to buy it. With the current leaderless-ship and headquarters staff of USPSA I agree. +1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackJones Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 FWIW I posted a discussion on the official USPSA forum asking for confirmation of the match dates and location. I'm sure it'll go unanswered but I posted it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottlep Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 FWIW I posted a discussion on the official USPSA forum asking for confirmation of the match dates and location. I'm sure it'll go unanswered but I posted it anyway. Wait, please actually use the USPSA forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackJones Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Wait, please actually use the USPSA forum? It's dead most days but there's been a little activity lately. Mostly discussion about next president since we can't talk about that topic here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougCarden Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Latest I have heard as of this week is that it looks like USPSA will get settled up with the Range and it will actually take place in St. George...... I am on the fence as I want to shoot it this year but I may have to decide on whether to go to this one or The Briley West Coast Steel Championship at the birthplace of SC.....Piru......which is the next weekend after....... DougC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ming the Merciless Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Latest I have heard as of this week is that it looks like USPSA will get settled up with the Range and it will actually take place in St. George...... I am on the fence as I want to shoot it this year but I may have to decide on whether to go to this one or The Briley West Coast Steel Championship at the birthplace of SC.....Piru......which is the next weekend after....... DougC Shoot the Briley West Coast match! The stages aren't the traditional Steel Challenge stages and you can shoot rimfire rifle, plus good food and a full match instead of 40 or 50 shooters like at the Steel Challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchy Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 If I win the lottery, I'm buying back the Steel Challenge and bringing it back to Piru! Seiichi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Anderson Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Latest I have heard as of this week is that it looks like USPSA will get settled up with the Range and it will actually take place in St. George...... I am on the fence as I want to shoot it this year but I may have to decide on whether to go to this one or The Briley West Coast Steel Championship at the birthplace of SC.....Piru......which is the next weekend after....... DougC Shoot the Briley West Coast match! The stages aren't the traditional Steel Challenge stages and you can shoot rimfire rifle, plus good food and a full match instead of 40 or 50 shooters like at the Steel Challenge. You can shoot Rimfire rifle at the Steel Challenge as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copr93647 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Well, I don't know all the who, what, when, where and why's...but it is the end of February and the match is scheduled for mid June...and they don't even have the web site up or a Practiscore match entry listed. I would say that is at least poor planning...and more likely they just don't care about WSSC and they would just as soon see it die. This is ridiculous! The Area 1 Regional is also in June and it has been up and going for months...in fact I just heard it is sold out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottlep Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 (edited) SCSA is the redheaded stepchild of USPSA. They are slowly starting to pay a tiny bit of attention to it, but not much. Considering SCSA is a great gateway into competitive shooting, you would think they would advertise and push the hell out of it in hopes that people would transition over to USPSA. I am the sponsorship director for the PA State Steel Challenge Championship and we had more registrations for our Championship match than the WSSC because we advertised the hell out of the match. USPSA doesn't even try to push the match. We also have a steel league out here in Eastern PA that shoots 14 matches at 7 different clubs throughout the summer. Last year we had matches with more than 135 shooters, which is almost more that the entire 2014 WSSC Edited February 23, 2015 by scottlep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackJones Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 SCSA is the redheaded stepchild of USPSA. They are slowly starting to pay a tiny bit of attention to it, but not much. Considering SCSA is a great gateway into competitive shooting, you would think they would advertise and push the hell out of it in hopes that people would transition over to USPSA. You nailed it with the redheaded stepchild comment. It sucks. I do think the classification system for rimfire is a nice addition but there's so much more that could be done. We could use more stages, especially shorter ones so that clubs that don't have big enough bays would have more stages to choose from. It is a shame about the lack of information about the WSSC. If NSSF wanted to they could expand their rimfire program to include centerfire and that would pretty much put USPSA steel challenge out of business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALRAY Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 worldspeedshoot.com now shows as an expired domain name. Stepchild kicked to the curb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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