I was hoping the suspense was for a make-up schedule. Sounds like it was let down.
Here is the email:
Good Day, Shooters,
As you all know by now, we had to cancel the 2018 Carolina Classic Section Match just hours before our scheduled start time. I assure you, no one was more disappointed than I was!!! This had grown into the "Mini Nationals" that I had dreamed it would be. We had 397 shooters registered when we cancelled. That included staff and sponsors as well. I had received emails from others saying that our Section Match was going to be bigger than some Area Matches and that made me proud of "OUR" section knowing that each and every one of you supported it!!!
While we had to cancel it, we also had to make some hard, financial decisions concerning the match. When you're that close to the match, most of the expenses have been PAID or will be expected to be paid shortly after. Most of our sponsors responded to my cancellation email in this manner, "SEE YOU NEXT YEAR and SEND OUR STUFF BACK," so we have had to ship a lot of merchandise back. Some responded 'give it away' so over the next couple of weeks you will get your shirt in the mail and if you're lucky, other prizes!!! We did get to keep some of the major prizes for next year, but not many! On the bright side of this, they all said they would support us next year!!!! While the registration says, "no refunds after 8-8-18", we will still try to do what's best for the section and you, the shooter. You may not know this, but the section match also funds the CRO/RO classes and a host of other things included in running the section, such as a junior camp. If you haven’t been in the sport very long you may not know that the Army Marksmanship Unit held such a camp for many years. Due to funding changes for the Army that is no longer held. The Section stepped up and holds a junior camp now. To our knowledge there is no other junior camp held inside Area 6. For example, it cost the section $6,000 for all four CRO/RO classes this year and although we do charge $50 to take the class, we only get about one third of that money back. Ten people in a class and we get $500 back, we still must pay the other $1,000. Please understand that HQ requires a minimum student count. In an effort to keep prices down and still have classes, we pay for the class even below these minimums. Additionally, there are other expenses a class will have. These expenses are lodging, meals, and transportation (rental car) for the instructor. Sometimes, we have to cover range rental, and classroom rental fees. And we also cover lunch for the students. These expenses add to the $800 charge from USPSA for the class making a class more costly than just the student fee. Our Section Match supports and funds the NC Section the rest of the year. Some sections don't offer what we offer to pay for and they expect the clubs to fund their own classes with no help from the section.....they don't do what we do!!!!
So, with all that being said, here are the options that we are left with for next year. The Section will offer two options and because this is "OUR" section, I'm going to let you decide. Comped shooters should talk to their sponsors as well. We are going to set up a separate email so that you can vote your choice for PLAN A or PLAN B, here they are:
PLAN A: We are going to shoot and support two Level 2 matches,
one the last weekend in March, SC SECTION MATCH at Low Country, NC. The other one will be our NC SECTION MATCH but we're moving it to the first weekend in November at CGGR-Asheboro, NC. Now, here is how the money will work,
we will knock $20 off the entry fee for the SC Section shooters in March and for the NC Section Match in November,
we will offer $50 off the normal entry fee of $140. The NC Section match fee will be $90 for those on the paid list for this year.
That means a total of a $70 total discount.....
The link to SC Section match is
https://practiscore.com/coastal-car...-south-carolina-section-championship/register
PLAN B:
We will refund $40 dollars to all paid shooters and
we will make the November Match at CGGR-Asheboro, NC fee $110 instead of $140. ONLY THOSE SHOOTERS WHO PAID the 2018 match fee WILL GET A REFUND.....If you were comped please talk to your sponsor about which plan you like, THANKS!!!
That means a total of a $70 total discount......
These plans were UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED by the Executive Committee, MDs, at the Section meeting
Saturday night. All MDs were invited to the meeting and here is who participated:
Mike Fritz-Low Country
Del Photo-B&R
Parrish Ketchmark-SFE Shooters
Chris Britt-APSA
Robert Walker-Sir Walter
Dan Dorion-Rowan
Brian Wolf-Rowan
Rick Dean-Pitt County
Our Section Secretary, Jim McBurnett, will be sending out an email about this very soon so we can get this behind us and move on towards our goals for next year!!!! You can vote PLAN A or PLAN B, but if you vote more than once all your votes will be discarded, this makes it a fair vote and we hear the voice equally of "ALL" the shooters who support our section. I have asked one of the past Section Coordinators to help tabulate votes to be neutral.......I have no input!!! MAJORITY RULES, so pick your plan.......
I MET WITH THE CPA TODAY AND EVERYONE WILL RECEIVE A 501c3 DONATION LETTER IN ADDITION TO OUR PLANS ONCE WERE APPROVED.
THANKS AGAIN FOR ALL THE SUPPORT FROM YOU AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR!!!!!
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I really like the part about them spending the entry fees on other ventures except for the state match itself. I know some funds were spent on the match. But all other funds should not have been spent till the match was held.
By my guessing, 300 paid shooters at $140 each =$42,000.00
If only $40 refunds are available, $12,000. There was $30,000 spent on a bunch of other stuff., none of which protected the event from weather, fire, war, the range closing down, Armageddon, the coming of Christ etc.