This is an update on the mailing of the score sheets, and shipping of the medals, and prizes. Typically the truck with all of the AHA’s gear leaves the conference city on the Monday following the conference and takes about 1 week to deliver the stuff to our warehouse in Boulder, CO. That is not the case this year.
This year, we had 2 truck loads of gear to ship from Philadelphia to Boulder. One truck loaded with the bars and beer serving equipment left on the Monday following the conference and arrived in Boulder yesterday. The second truck with all of the competition gear did not leave until this week. This means that the competition stuff is still in transit. The mailing and shipping will commence next week after the truck delivers everything. I apologize for the additional delay.
For future conferences, I like the idea of putting the scoresheets out after the banquet so people attending can pick them up. I looked this year but didn’t see them. Was that something that is normally done or just in Seattle?
I do like the new competition software that has the ability to show the scores in the second round. Maybe in a few years, the technology will be there to load copies of the scoresheets online too without having someone sit at a scanner and manually upload them.
Thanks for all you efforts and a great conference. On Sunday I wan’t sure if I was going to make it to Grand Rapids, but I’ve already made up my mind to go!
The ability to distribute the score sheets at the end of the Awards Ceremony is completely dependent on the local organizer and their competition staff. That’s why it happens some years and doesn’t happen on others.
Thanks for the suggestion about having the score sheets online. That would be great, but I’m not sure how we can do it easily if we’re still writing on paper forms with a pencil. I’ll definitely look into it!