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« on: July 05, 2010, 03:40:27 PM »
OK, guys....
Bughole, works very good at drawing benches and sharing flags. Depending on the shoot and how many "COMMITTED" shooters there are, the rule book NBRSA, Say's if it's a national shoot, you must have benches drawn, and targets setup at least by Friday (Or day before shoot) for shooters to practice and setup flags.
Late comers:
These people can be taken care of very easily with Bughole. When they show up the day of the shoot, they can draw from the remaining benches, But! they will always be on the second relay if there's two relays. I really would not recommend this type of scenario if at all possible.
In my experience over the last 20 years, to make a shoot go well and smooth here are some suggestions.
1. Pre-Register. Confirm ! We do have the technology to do this. (Including using the phone)
2. Have all draws (benches, relays) complete by Friday NOON. Backers setup so shooters can set their equipment up to be ready for the day of the shoot. All targets can be made up at this point (easy with Bughole). I truly believe that referees DO NOT have to be present when using Bughole. All the person does is click a button to draw for benches. We do have to trust the Scorer. This means less people involved, or having to be there. (Think about it, what can a referee do about the bench drawing with a computer?).
3. Conflict in drawing benches, Some people HAVE to be on relays that don't conflict with their partners or new shooters. This again is easy to do in Bughole. The scorer can move the people to a different relay and\or Closest bench open so they arn't on the same relay. We do have to appease these people and new shooters if you want to grow.
3. Have all clubs follow a guild line of what Classes are shooting when. (Suggestion, 1st day, LV 100, HV 100, 2nd day, HV 200, LV 200)
4. Late comers... It is much easier to take a shooter out of bughole then it is to add them later. So if you have a potential shooters showing up, make sure you have them in the Bughole! It's the only way you can have a computer driven "Draw for benches" to be fair.
5. Don't do a bench rotation the first day, keep the shooter on their same bench for both classes. 2nd Day rotate benches using this formula (half the number of benches in use = Bench rotation) This way everyone gets to shoot from a different backer.
6. Jeffy the 3 min suggestion for setting up flags was joke right? Nobody can run out 200 yards setting up flags and be back in 3 minutes.. Or people sharing flags can't either. You have to appease people to keep them coming, and if you do have a 3 min flag setup, 3/4 of you guys will die of strokes or heart attacks!!
Just a suggestion guys! As you all know I am not a member of the BRSC. But I have alot of experience running and observing shoots .
Seiber
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