RainingOil

The same guy, Andrew Rollings, has posted in several places that he may have access to a room prior to the block going public. I’ll see if I can find it but he’s posted explicitly that “talking to Scott Bregi about getting a room before they go public” is his recommendation. I’m not Andrew, so I don’t know precisely what the deal is, but knowing how Omaha went, it’s plausible that there may be some cronyism going on.

I’ve attached a screenshot of where I saw it.

Hey Gil, if you’re worried about a reservation, Scott Bregi apparently is letting certain folks in the “in” crowd get reservations before they go public. I saw that on Facebook. I’m going to try to reserve one that way, because last year someone reserved 10 rooms prior to them going public and then they tried selling the reservations. I guess it’s not what you know, but who, as with all things so maybe try reaching out to Scott and see about getting one early. I don’t know if you have to buy your way into the in crowd by paying Scott, or what, but surely it’s worth it to ensure a spot.

Andy, they are volunteers. Give them some slack.

Nope. It’s still there.

Bingo. If anything I doubt their commitment they keep touting to have for this organization if at the slightest reign-in on their power, being brought into line with the constitution, they all rage quit.

You’re right, per the constitution of the org, the eboard and president determine how long committees run (article VII, section B). And above they in section A, they are under the control of the president being a “titled position”. Jim’s whole thing has literally been “we didn’t have any issues for the past 50 years”. Read that as “we didn’t have the eboard, namely the president, tell us what to do in anyway for 50 years”. So I’m practice, they did what they pleased, and now that that is being reigned in to what the constitution lays out, they’re all rage quitting. Which that’s fine. I think they were hoping people would jump up and shout “woah now wait a minute! Don’t quit! We can do this another way!” But that didn’t happen. Full steam ahead.

Your example about the judges getting overruled is exactly how it should be handled. Everyone straight up admitted that is NOT how it was handled. I have a conversation with Kaliste himself saying he wishes he did it like you had happen in 2019, not how they handled it which created this issue. If everyone did it properly there would be no need for this. But here we are. and you’re right about this being about power but not how you think you’re right. You see, the NCC by all accounts had no oversight, and now that a little is being applied, everyone is quitting. You guys are upset you don’t have the unlimited power you once had, and I get it; that’s hard to take. But really as you said, you resigned over this, so it’s up to the rest of the membership that is still in to carry on and figure it out. You had a great many years of service, and for that we thank you.

I bet you numbers are the same if not better. That’s exactly why things are happening now after 50 years. More people are joining, more people are attending, more people are competing. And now that they’re members all the same as us, they want to make things better. If a change such as “head judges can’t arbitrarily override the volunteer judges’ decision with 0 oversight” makes you want to leave… maybe it’s for the best, as that seems awkward for a head judge to be upset about.