Public city streets are no place to test your limits or the limits of the car.

People get caught up in the moment and take things too far. How do I know? I've done it. The group drives scare me, as there are simply too many variables. Too many things can go wrong too quickly.

I was the caboose in blacknot's group, and we were going at what I consider a liesurely pace. Still, the road was very technical and tight and bad things happen when people feel pressured to keep up and drive beyond their abilities. Too many times I have led a group (usually at the dragon) at what I consider a safe spirited pace, only to find people behind me were at 11/10ths scraping to keep up.

That scares me.

Let's go to the track instead.

 

Busy day at work so not much tiem for me to chime in here however I would like to address a few of th ethoughts that have surfaced so far.

Financial support:

In my oponion having S2ki "Sponsor" the event is certainley something we can discuss with them however the fees of $20.00 per year to have a site where we can all communicate like we do everyday is a small price to pay IMHO. Can we approach them, absolutely but if I were the owner I would want to see a tanagiable return on my investment, IE more memberships? Maybe a discounted membership if you renew at the meet? (Just ideas)

Additionally I know American Honda has funds for events like this and while we were not successful this year at getting them a new approach for next year will be made.

Group Drives:

I can see a few tweaks in the logistics of getting people into groups and launching the groups however the group drive is not a race, auto cross or track event. If anyone wants to "open it up" then they can do so on th edrive to the meet or the drive home by organizing their own group drives to and from. IMHO the Track Day Sunday organized by Willie Gee was perfect and offered a great opportunity to "open it up" in a much safer enviroment and an opportunity for learning your car and your limits

Perhaps an Autocross type event for the day after the Supermeet or the same track event. This is the right way to approach "going faster" and "learning" not on the street where bad things can happen.

Food: Live & learn, we will do a much better job on food next year. Keep the suggestions coming.

Vendors:

The vendors we had are all top notch and of the ones I have spoken to so far they said they felt it was worth their time and effort to attend. They are business people and we offered them a very specific demographic of people to market and network with.

We hope to have the same vendors back and a few more, if you have suggestions on a company you know that may be interested please PM me th einformation i would be happy to approach them for next year.


Thanks, Barry

 

Dunk tank will be mandatory at the next event. I will freely volunteer to be the dunkee.

1.00 for three balls

I have enough S2k rips and your mamma jokes to keep you bastards entertained or pissed off (which ever gets more balls purchased) until rapture!

Awesome idea!!!!

 

CO's & Mod's in the dunk tank ..................................I will do it if we charge $20 for 3 throws! (MLB regulation distance from the pitchers mound to home plate )

 

 

Don't think anyone would be interested in dunking me. But sure, I'd continue to heckle the crowd for a few hours. Might be better for a July super meet.

Did you guys meet Raul? Great dude. Super funny, and he knows a thing or two about supermeets. He's a great resource for this kind of thing.

 

I'm not sure if people were told to do this or not, but personally, my suggestion would have to be to have people put their real first name, as well as their their forum name on their name tag. There may have been more, but I only saw one person who had this done, and thankfully it was the person I was looking for.

Me being pretty new to the forums I can't put faces or real names with forum names, and this kind of makes the experience less personal to me, in addition to the fact that it also makes it a lot harder to find people from the forums (at least for people like me).

[QUOTE=Bandiscoot,Feb 9 2009, 10:41 AM]My only suggestion would be to have the group photo session immediately after lunch and not at the end of the day.

 

 

+1 on the group photo being earlier and the raffle during lunch. I had to leave at 2:30 and missed out on both.

 

1. DUNK TANK!!!

2. Raffle @ Lunch

3. Lunch a bit later for late-long-distance people

Great Idea's so far!!