Greetings!
Bill Orr ran a real nice IDPA Tier 1 Match on Sunday, August 16. Way to GO, Bill, that was FUN!
NOTE: The Tuesday Match begins at 10:30 AM this week, NOT 10 AM as we did last week.
It's LIVE!
We are mostly done with all the prep work for Tuesday's match. We bought the Powerball ticket Sunday. Yes, this is a LIVE ticket so please don't mess it up during that Stage. What would be "messing up a Powerball ticket"?
Well, the worst thing you could do is crumple it into a ball and stuff it in your pocket. As we've noted, such extreme messing with the ticket would be a 20-second FTDR. Now, nobody's going to mind of the ticket gets some rough treatment, but please don't crumble it into a ball in your fist.
Anyway, as you well know, just because it's a LIVE ticket doesn't mean it's a winner. It could be a winner but the odds definitely don't suggest that it might.
Also, bear in mind that you need to take your ticket with you when you escape your burning house. If you forget the ticket, you get a Procedural Error. Here is a MAJOR point to make about forgetting the ticket. If you forget the ticket and then remember than you forgot the ticket, DO NOT turn around and go back for the ticket. Repeat: DO NOT go back for the ticket. The odds of breaking the muzzle plane are simply too high. Simply take your penalty and move on.
E & E Swinger Changed
We are changing the swinger in the Escape and Evade Stage. The swinger will be behind TWO non-threat targets. (Explanation below.) You will need to place two shots on the swinger. The swinger will be a NON-DISAPPEARING TARGET. Do your due diligence to learn what that means in this Stage. I learned it the hard way in Parma last fall. No one warned me. So, I guess I am kind of playing the same game here. All I can tell you is that it is a non-disappearing Swinger that needs two shots.
OK, now here's the explanation of why we decided to add two non-threats. if the swinger was "naked" and simply swinging around in space, it would be pretty easy to hit, even if you actually are firing from prone. By placing it behind two non-threats, it's going to be much more difficult to hit. That's the sole purpose of the two non-threats--to make the stage more difficult. You would expect nothing less from me, right?
T-Shirts Be Gone
The Mind Bender has been changed. The targets will not have t-shirts on them. Nor will they have numbers. They will be just plain old IDPA targets all standing in a row exactly 10 yards from the shooter's position. The T-Shirts really don't add anything to The Mind Bender so they have been eliminated. It might make the Stage a little easier. What a novel idea, eh?
Roster Ebb & Flow
At one point we expanded the potential roster to 15 participants. We've since scaled it back to 12 and there are currently 10 signed up. Larry said he's going to sign up so that would be 11. I am not sure who to invite who might make the 12th participant. It would be nice to have two Squads of six. If you have any ideas, please send an email.
If there are any more cancellations, we might have to go to one large Squad instead of two Squads.
Since we are shooting only three Stages, there should be plenty of time to reshoot a Stage. Keep that in mind during the match so you can vote on which stage you'd like to reshoot, if any.
As we note before each match, we don't do a pre-match briefing and safety speech. Here's al that stuff, so look it over and consider yourself briefed and speeched.
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