« Reply #51 on: August 02, 2013, 02:32:20 pm »
Firko was never going to compete at the PCMXNs
That's right Nathan, but I would have been there, possibly doing some magazine work, helping with eligibility scrutineering or announcing as I've done in the past. However, my attending or not to attending the Nats makes diddley squat difference to it's potential success. For purely selfish reasons I'd like to see the meeting held over the Anzac weekend but another part of me would like to see that Nats back in the Easter weekend which was it's spiritual home for a decade.
An awful lot of dumb decisions are made on assumptions about what will "upset" other people...
If the host club thinks Easter is the correct date, then they should apply for it. So far we haven't heard a single prospective competitor say "I will choose HBBB over the PCMXNats"...
There's far more overlap between HBBB & CD than there is between HBBB & the PCMXNs.
There's also 1500km between HBBB and this year's PCMXN...
I couldn't agree more Nathan, the club should apply for Easter but don't think for one minute that MA will rubber stamp the application without some serious investigation into the meetings effect on HBBB. We all know that very few, if any Victorians would travel to Queensland for the Nats but will MA see it that way? They're likely to assume that X number of racers will be lost to HBBB by going to the Nats and act to make sure they get the best potential rollup to their annual cash cow as possible. It's all hypothetical at the moment but it's never a good thing to assume anything until the proverbial fat lady sings.
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