Richard B.
We have already seen the OW Novices be sucked up into Grp 6, and now particular relief given to the schedule, really.
Because it is so easy to fill that empty space with something. That's what asking the Conference of clubs to drop a schedule date is only going to drop a ICSCC championship points date. They will, just like dropping a group on saturday, fill it with something else because they don't want to lose the date, and especially the potential income resource of maintaining the dates that they have at the venues that they use.
Mess with the Novice program? Please sir, you do me an injustice. Do you insinuate that the only place to have two novice practices (qual, whatever) is going to be that much different when it's not directly connected to, or scheduled into a championship points weekend?
Do you suggest that only the single ICSCC License Director would be unable to control the flow of upgrades to our Novices?
I'll point out the expanding ICSCC Steward's Program. If calling it a program isn't too SCCA-ish for one's palate.
I simply ask for the sake of discussion, the 'Broad(head)ening of perception from "the way it's always been" perspective, to one of an open thought process.
What are we, a bunch of 'wheat stalk chewin', front porch rockerin', farmers?
I do not suggest, and have never considered that there is anything wrong with the overall design and performance of the ICSCC Novice program. But to sit on our butts and ignore possibilities is simple ignorance.
Sez, I.
@RandyB. "You trying to booger-hook me again Ken? "
Chummin'.