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Thanks Dee.

A very comprehensive and informative reply.

Steve

I have now made use of the on-line entry system for some of the races it was made available for right from the word go and must say that I have found it to be a very good, pain free system to navigate through. I especially like the fact that you can immediately see that your entry has been received....

Hi Dee.

I have just started out down the on-line entry registration process as I wanted to see how the system worked using entries for the Tully Prem. events.

However I need to send in Official's entries as well as competitors entries.

Is this possible at this time?

Thanks in advance.
Steve

This approach would appear to be a very logical progression for all classes to adopt now that portable points have been introduced. I have some suspicions that such a situation was the ultimate end game when the first Paddle Up motion was proposed. Small steps to get to the final goal where anyone c...

Hi Colin, Many C2 crew views about having just one C2 combined Prem. - Div. 4 class have already been made on an alternative thread that Nick started which was called "Is C2 still viable as a Ranking Class?" We could try the higher promotion points target for the 2017 season and as you suggested in ...

Be careful that you don't get thought of as a pot hunter Paul.

Yes Catherine. 4,500 points would be my favoured new target for C2 promotion but that is just my point of view. It would allow me and my various C2 partners to enter many more Div.2 races than we are currently able to do without the fear of getting promoted to a water level that we can't cope with. ...

This is a fantastic proposal but in my opinion does not go far enough. Surely the target to get promoted from a combined Div. 2/3 class to a combined Prem./1 class should be the same target as getting promoted from a stand alone Div. 2 class to a stand alone Div. 1 class. After all that is the overa...

Congratulations to you and Ethan, Paul. This is exactly the problem I experience with the current Prem. / 1 and Div. 2 / 3 ranking classes for C2. Me and George are not competent enough to race on many Div. 1 events but get promoted if we do any more than 1 or 2 Div. 2 events in any single season. I...

There are several different C2 crews in our house of different abilities and therefore different ranking status. We all enjoy paddling in this class as it offers a welcome relief from the pressures involved in paddling our respective individual boats as I am sure many other C2 crews do. For me as th...

I agree with Dave. It is currently far too easy to get promoted from Div. 2/3 C2 into the much harder Prem. / Div. 1 class. Ther are a lot of C2 crews who could paddle Div. 1 water but few who could or would be prepared to take on Prem. water. I suspect that many Div. 3 C2 crews would feel equally u...

For the past few seasons I have raced K1 as a Prem. / Div.1 Vet and feel that racing for the full 1,000 points at a Prem. event but only half points at a Div.1 event works fine. This is the same system in operation for C1 Prem. / Div.1 Vet's and C2 Prem. / Div.1 crews. This season I also registered ...

At last weekends event in Marple my son was asked by the race organiser if he could do some Judgeing as he had done so at a previous event. My son then asked me if he could do so as we were racing as a C2 crew at the same event. As I had read this post in the preceding days I told him that he could ...

Hi Nick Thanks for the additional detail in regard to what future divisional point targets would be required for promotion. They all appear to make sense given the proposed maximum points available under the new system for each divisional race. Another question would be "Why is it easier (a lower po...

Well done everyone who has taken the time to make an input and generate this revised proposal. Although I was quite against the initial concept of such a system I think that your new concept retains all of the benefits but avoids many of the negatives of such a system being introduced. I would expan...