Not officially a member, but I hang out on their forum a lot. :) What’s so scary about Idaho? LOL.
You’d have to ask her. It just makes her nervous for some reason. lol
da Weaze, that’s what
I see that the score sheets for Seattle were sent out early last week and and that several people on this thread received their scores by the middle of last week. I still haven’t received my scores and was wondering if there might be a reason I hadn’t received mine yet. A week and a half seems like a long time for mail to get from Seattle to Idaho. I’m not complaining, just excited to get the feedback. Anybody have any insight?
Have you contacted the organizer to verify that your mailing address was correct? You should have gotten them by now.
Tom,
No, I haven’t contacted anyone yet. I checked the info on my entry labels (I made a copy) and it’s all correct. Who specifically should I contact?
Nevermind my question. I see on the label sheet that Tim Hayner is the organizer. Thanks for your help Tom!
Peter Twigg. I’ll PM you
Tim’s job keeps sending him to Canada, he was here for the first round but he’s back up there as far as I know. I’ll send you contact info for both.
Thanks again Tom!
I don’t suppose you know if Texas is done yet do you?
Dallas will not be done until the 17th. How do I know? The status for all regions can be found here:
Well, 17th or later.
That they only got half way through in one weekend does not inspire confidence that they will finish in a second. I hope so, as I entered there and I don’t want to be totally blind on any re-brewing required.
Thanks for the info!
I know how you feel we’re sucking it up and re-brewing our Imperial Stout this weekend. Hopefully the other five wont need any changes.
You may be right.
I am entered in the Indianapolis region, and will give that status a check early next week.
Edit: there is a post by Janis Gross for judges. 3 of the 6 did not get done last week.
I wish there was some word 3-4 weeks ago that these regions weren’t going to be able to handle the entries. After flying 750 miles to Denver to judge last weekend and then working on the East coast all week I’m not about to go to Dallas or Madison this weekend, and wouldn’t anyway on one day notice. If I wasn’t actively paying attention there was really no communication on a national scale about these problems to judges until Janis posted a few hours ago. If I had known a month ago these cities wouldn’t make it I would have changed my plans and judged at one or the other rather than Denver, which certainly didn’t need my help to easily handle their entries.
I am honestly surprised at the trouble Dallas is having. This is the city that boasts of the largest single site brewing competition in the country!
You just can’t tell in advance who will show up and who will not on the day of judging. You can try to get confirmations, but that doesn’t mean much. I’m sure they’re all doing there best to finish them as quickly as possible while still having quality judging.
I’ve run a competition before and while you can’t tell exactly who will be there, I would have had a feeling a couple of weeks out that I was only going to be able to do half of the entries. I imagine that was the case here too. In reality you are talking maybe 10% of confirmed people not showing and when scheduling flights you make provisions in anticipation of this. Has your experience been that different than mine?
I’m sure the people who showed up did their best. I more take issue with the people from that city that pride themselves on running large competitions that did not show up.
No, my experience hasn’t been that different, and I agree that it’s a bit of a surprise that they had trouble in that area. But a lot of things could have happened to slow things down unexpectedly, and maybe they were just overly optimistic about how many of the “maybe” judges would actually show. I don’t know. I’m just trying to avoid a rush to judgment. 
I don’t know anything about the logistics of running a homebrew competition so this is really a question and not a criticism. But is it odd that half the competitions that have been held so far have not been able to finish? Has that happened in the past? The entry limit is still capped at the same level as in previous years, correct?