Jammers,
The recent post regarding new membership structure, routines length for WOC 2017 and other topics received some feedback, pretty much all of it excellent points. The Board hears you and are going to make the following changes/modifications.
- By now, all the FPA members should find the survey for the WFDF routines in their inboxes, basically asking the question, do you want 3 or 4 minute routines. Also, there is still the ongoing vote for the new FPA board members. Make sure you participate in both of these surveys before December 14th.
- We will change the way we assign FPA Membership numbers. We have not finalized exactly what we will do but it is likely to take the form of some kind of raffle, so everyone has a shot at a low number.
- There has been a fair amount of misunderstanding among our community, and even among the board members regarding the definitions of the different types of tournaments. To address this, we are working on a matrix that will show the characteristics of the different levels of tournaments – how many people are competing, which tournaments get FPA sponsorship funds, which ones must use the FPA Competition Manual including the FPA Judging System and the timing of the routines, which ones get higher ranking points, and which ones are obliged to offer certain (or all) divisions.
Thank you for all your feedback!
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4 minutes is the current standard for FPA Worlds, US Open and EFC and EFO’s – if we want WFDF to be considered in the same class it should be 4 minutes.
I don’t like the idea of raffling off the numbers – the pdga gave the numbers to the first registered members – with the inventor of the sport Steady Ed being number one…. Victor Malafronte 2, the Stork 3 and Jo Cahow 4….. all hall of famers – a historic representation of the sport and part of the sports history…. I’d hate to see our history show that we were so desperate for money we had to auction off our ‘history’….why not have a pole from the players and hof members on who they think should get the top numbers…. I’d say Ken Westerfield and Jim Kenner the first champions would be nice as 1 and 2.
Point 3 – stop calling non-majors majors. High ranking non-majors can be called premier or pro events. thanks for listening 🙂