Don,
That is exactly correct, Dave Brown said in no uncertain terms that
the FAI executive council was mandated with reducing the number of
competitors in FAI events as well as trying to disallow any new
events from being added, this to save money for the AMA. It was
embarassing to have been in Belgrade having the only Jr team with 2
members. It was also very unfair to have had Justin in first place,
Tim in second and to have been in dead last for the Jr team placing.
We should not let this just fade away. Everyone also needs to keep in
mind that according to the rules at the time of trying to get Curtis
to be allowed to try out there was NOTHING that said he could not, of
course now there is ( as of the 21st of last month ) All those
involved dropped the ball here and completly forgot about the kids
who worked so hard, I am embarassed for all of them--- In
Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Don DeLoach " <ddeloach@...>
wrote:
>
> Alan:
>
> I saw Dave Brown at the AMA FF Nats a couple weeks ago at Muncie.
He was in
> a golf cart chatting with a friend. I decided not to confront him
but now I
> regret that decision. As I understand it Brown was the major force
behind
> this lame decision. The story I heard was that Brown's personal
mandate is
> to REDUCE the number of AMA members engaged in FAI team selection,
> supposedly because it is such a drain on AMA funds. Unbelievable.
>
> rgds
> Don
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan
Mkitarian
> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 8:18 PM
> To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Indoor_Construction] Re: 2 juniors
>
> "What a shame on you" was my reply to Dave Mathewson after
meeting him
> at the FAC Nats at Genesco this July. I had asked him just how
come the
> third person could NOT be added to the team and his reply was
that "they
> were just following the rules". Its time the rules were changed so
that
> this sort of s--- does not happen again. Those two AMA members who
flew for
> us were not given the chance to compete on an even playing field
with the
> rest of the world. Nasty letters should be sent to those envolved
in this
> decision.
> Alan Mkitarian AMA 5008
> Palmyra, N.J.
>
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