Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

Paddle Ups and late entries will be required to judge unless we have more judging volunteers on the day. Paddle Ups will have places confirmed by the 26th of February and will be allocated in order of receipt. When I spoke to Calum last weekend (I'm not qualified to judge but will help out on the s...

Quick check of the office printers reveals most of them have minimum width of 90mm for custom size, except the roll printer which has min width of 100mm (but it prints from 917mm wide rolls so not practical anyway). However, checking the boss' printer over the VPN I notice it (Samsung CLX-3170) allo...

I think it is useful that Kelso has got this out in the open, however; only the people that know exactly what arrancement BC have with the insurance company can say whether this is an actual problem or not. Insurance is complex, rolling insurance is even more complex. If the insurers have reviewed a...

The elephant in the room is that if the cards are increased to DL size to suit printing, they won't fit in a DL envelope for posting. I think C5 will fit them for the same postage so it is not a massively costly change. Where does DL = 210x99? Every listing I see has 220x110. If 210 x 99 is the prin...

Just to give non organisers an idea of the issue. Could I suggest next time we print cards we change Start No. to Bib as it seems to be confusing people. There's a lot that could be done to improve the entry cards, like making enough room to write the membership number and email address I have a 4 ...

I couldn't think of anything, but maybe I just did.... or maybe it is simply coincidence. Race organisers have asked us not to pester them about whether or not they received our entries, but both div 3/4 events that are running this weekend haven't posted a provisional start list (unless I just have...

Both my bibs (div 2 K1M and div 3 C1M) came within a week, I think you should try to contact the bib officer because there must have been a problem. A typical problem is incorrect postage on either the application or the return envelope. Things do also rarely get lost in the post. Also contact the o...

I'm still dithering and I don't know why, probably because its a long way to go, and probably because I have a kite buggy event that weekend. I think I first paddled at HPP in 1989, but I have never raced there (did a couple of student rodeos in the '90's). For most of my life it has been the top sl...

Thanks everyone! I have always filled in both sides, but there was a moment first time when I was unsure because the box for the total score is amongst the others which I/we can fill in. Basically, competitors should fill in all parts of both sides of the cards EXCEPT the bits that only the judges c...

My questions are real. I always make what I think is a sensible decision when filling in the fees sections of my cards, but I'm starting to think I have done it different ways. With respect to the cheques, that will depend on how different organisers do their banking so maybe there aren't definitive...

I think you may have missed the point here JimW. Yeah, could be - I read it like just another IT problem from one of my colleagues! :) I wasted an hour or so this morning with one of them who had discovered that CAD drawings plotted to PDF were not subsequently printing out properly to scale. Troub...

Re Dee's comments on printing cards through SS (which I agree with) I've found some printers won't print standard slalom entry cards they are too narrow and although they will just go through the printer clever old windows and/or the printer will not allow them to print as they are not a 'recognise...

I almost misunderstood what you meant about Tees barrage but I have that now, it does still leave me with some questions about double events and multiple classes. (General questions - I probably haven't entered any of your events) Firstly - have I been filling my cards in right? Actually I'm not eve...

That reminds me, I need to download the SCA course notes because they weren't ready when I did the course (apparently there are slight differences between regions?) - that checklist sounds like a bit of a bear!

Firstly - my apologies to organisers I emailed last year, I got ranked quite late on and for almost every event I emailed first to check there were still places available before sending my entries off. And thanks to all of you for responding - as I recall I emailed very late about adding a K1 entry ...