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Todd Breakey · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:21 pm

I just wanted to thank everyone who was on the Scoring Team this weekend. You guys are the best!!!!! :thumb:

For those who didn't notice or weren't at the event in Danville this Sunday, I'll give you the background on why I say that these people rock.

As you all are aware, we have a driver's meeting before we send the first car off. We've had litterally hundereds of driver's meetings in the past and I'm sure they have all gone off without a hitch. Well, fate caught us and spilled a bottle of water on the scoring computer!!!!! :shock:

I'm not going to say the names of the people who were involved in making this happen. I will say that they both drive the same Subaru. :wink:

Tom Hoppe tried to get the computer dried an usable before the start but it was not to be.

Fortunately, we have members in the club that were racing back in the days of ricshaws and using abacuses for talling scores. Art set up our class results sheets and got that moving so we could have trophies in the event the computer was unfixable. Charles Frank suggested having the "computer" person also do a set of raw sheets so we could catch any errors that might get written down by one person. This was a great idea as there were a few transposed numbers here and there.

I think the first car went off just a little late but we ended up with 112 drivers getting 4 runs each and fun runs. All before 4:30!!!!! After the regular runs were completed, Tom reassembled the dismantled computer and it WORKED!!!!!! Tom, Kenny and I were able to get everyone's fastest run entered so we could have trophies for the pax'd classes. I think we were leaving the site by 5:30!!!

Here are the people who made this happen. BIG THANKS TO THEM!! :toast:

Keith Quisdorff, Garry Minarcine, Art McDonald, Sonya Rouse, Chris Brown, Mark Musser, Sally Johnson, Tonya Mauldin, Les Davis, Robert PLank, Diane Melton, Charles Frank, Chris Peterson, Jim Pastorious, Donna Frank, and Kenny Keel. And Tom Hoppe for getting the computer working again!

It's people like these that make our club the best damn club around!!! Without them, this event would not have been nearly as much fun as it was.
Thanks for all your hard work guys and girls!!!

Diane Hall · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:34 pm

At one point I had put the "old" paper forms for scoring into the file cabnet, just in case. They might have been cleaned out by now though. Something to think about stocking, just in case.

Congrats to the team for working it all out. Having done it myself, it's certainly hectic to switch gears suddenly.

And even harder to keep it seamless for many of the participants.

:cheer:

Todd Breakey · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:38 pm

Art looked all over the place for those forms to no avail. I'm going to try to make a spreadsheet to have in the bus "just in case". Hopefully we won't have to do that again!

Richard Casto · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:29 pm

I happend to be looking in the bus when the spill happened. There was a 1/2 second of stunned, oh my god, did that just happen!! :shock:

, looks on everyone's faces, and then Chris Brown jumped up to hold the laptop upside down so that the water could drain out. Glad to know it dried out and worked later. :thumbsup:

The entire thing reminded me of a Saturday Night Live skit from the late 1980's in which someone spills a Coke (or Pepsi) onto control panel at Three Mile Island. It causes a near meltdown, President Jimmy Carter shows up to investigate, he turns into a giant due to the radiation, etc. Basically sounds like one of Anders dreams.

shawnwhipple · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 6:28 pm **Posts:** 603

Speaking of the whole wet laptop thing. I'll admit my part in it, I was pulling on the microphone, that had it's cord wrapped around the water bottle, that tipped it's contents into the laptop. Richard is right there was a whole group of people looking like this :eek:

as the water glugged into the keyboard

Stupid stuff happens, please don't be too hard on Tom it really was just an accident, he only gets the blame because it was his water bottle. Everyone seemed to have fun anyway so it wasn't too big of a disaster.

I sent Todd an email earlier today thanking him for keeping the event together after the disaster and he replied to me that it wasn't just him but everyone on the T&S team for the whole event who pitched in and made it work despite being different and more difficult than normal. I have to agree that it was you guys and gals that kept this whole event on track.

:thumbsup:

Thanks again for all of ya'lls help.

Shawn

David Teague · **Posted:** Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:04 am

I remeber what hapeened when we first got a laptop for registration of course we did not have a bus and timing and registration were done under an east up, that had a lot of water on it that someone felt need to be knocked off.. right onto the the laptop... heheh

Diane Hall · **Posted:** Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:49 am

David - Yeah, I wasn't NOT a happy camper that day. It all worked out though in the end, and I think most people didn't even know it had happened. Needless to say, the computer didn't work again that day. It took a trip back to Dell to fix it.

Todd - I think I still have the old forms on a CD somewhere. I'll look tonight and send them along if I have them.

Diane

Tom Hoppe · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 10:16 am **Posts:** 387

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Thanks everyone for bailing me out

Great job on running the event as smoothly as it went!

I promise I will have a sippy cup instead of a bottle next time I do registration.

This will NOT happen again, as we are now building super quadruple redundancy into the system.

-Tom

Todd Breakey · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:22 pm

Diane Hall wrote:

Todd - I think I still have the old forms on a CD somewhere. I'll look tonight and send them along if I have them.

Diane

Diane, if you find that, please email it to me. I'd like to have some printed "just in case" I REALLY hope we never have to do that again!

Diane Hall · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2004 6:11 pm

I didn't find an electronic copy. Guess it was on my "old,old" computer. (vs. my "old" computer from which I have a CD of the harddrive)

There was one page per class, in a notebook, seperated by tabs, and they looked like:

Class | Car No | Name | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 5 | Run 6 | Best Time | PAX Time

All times in the "book" INCLUDED cones... so 60.826 + 1 was 62.826 in the "book".

RAW sheets have always been 60.826 + 1

For reasons that somewhat defy my logic, back then they liked this all crammed on a portrait page, instead of making it landscape. I think it had something to do with Oscar and Ron being left-handed, IIRC.

The PAX column was only used for NOV and ST (now TIRE)... and for the people we calculated FTS, FTSP, FTP, and FTM for. It was too work intensive after the event to calculate everyone's PAX times by hand before the trophies.

I actually still have the old book somewhere (yes, I'm a packrat). I even found some old results when I moved. I think it's all still in a box though.

Hope you never again have to do this by hand, but the laptop has now twice succumed to drenching. It's likely it will eventually happen to someone again.

Tom Hoppe · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 10:16 am **Posts:** 387

Todd - There is so much redundancy built into the new "system" that I am sure we would never need to use paper again

-Tom

Todd Breakey · **Posted:** Thu Apr 29, 2004 3:33 pm

Diane - Thanks for looking. That sounds like the same thing that Art made.

Tom - I can't wait to see what you came up with.

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