I expect only father time will decrease your number of entries. I always look forward to making an entry, skipping the sweakball party. Jim On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 4:35 PM Mark Lewin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > while I am working on the rankings for all 4 regionals, I wanted to throw > a few questions out to the list. > > I am trying to decide about the future of this contest or anything like > it. Back in the nineties, we had 50 or more people participating. Now we > have 18. For the past few years, the number has been pretty steady between > the mid teens and the mid twenties. > > So this question is this: has the contest run its course? Is it time to > stop? > > Over the course of the years I have run several variations of this. > > There are the usual contests 1-3. > > There are contest 1-6 where 4-6 are the same as 1-3 except without > weighting of later rounds. > > Now I'm doing 1-3 but also running mini-contests for each of the regionals. > > What is the general feeling out there? What, if anything, should I be > doing going forward? > -- Jim Dixon (907) 479-4306 home (907) 474-7099 work (661) 236-1375 cell **************************