Sorry I've been away for awhile...
I spoke with Dave Bold at the Smith & Wesson IDPA Indoor Nationals and as a result of our conversation on this topic we decided on the following:
1) Date/Time: has been set - July 31, 2010 - registration will open at 9:00 AM for those who have not pre-registered; shooters meeting at 9:45 AM; first shots 10:00 AM.
2) Venue: has been set - Harvard Sportsmens Club, Harvard, MA
3) Staff: I will volunteer to be match director, Dave Bold has volunteered to be scorekeeper. Dave has both IDPA and USPSA scoring software as well as a spreadsheet that he used in the 2008 match. Everything will be scoring using the rules of USPSA, IDPA, Steel Challenge, and Walls of Steel. I have heard from some folks about volunteering to RO/SO - if you can help out send me an e-mail to
[email protected] and if you have a preference on what discipline you would like to work on let me know. If I have enough of one discipline I will ask you to help out on another.
4) Format: Dave and I agree that there is not a lot of "cross-over" with many people shooting both IDPA and USPSA. We agree that with the good weather of July 31 (hopefully no rain or high humidity), and the number of IDPA, USPSA, and other shooters that both knew and loved John we expect a large turnout. Not to mention that with the "bragging rights" that will go along with the results of this match, as well as folks that would like to try out one of the other sports, we are going to have a good crowd. Therefore, we agreed that we will have established squads rather than open-squadding to help with the flow of the match.
5) Divisions: We will use the same format that Dave used in 2008 - Open, Limited, Production, Single Stack and Revolver. You will follow discipline rules, so, on the IDPA stages no more than 10 rounds in the magazine (+1 in the chamber). On the USPSA stages follow USPSA rules regarding magazine capacity for the division you are registered in. USPSA Limited 10 shooters can use hi-cap mags and shoot in Limited or if you only have 10 round mags you can shoot in Production. IDPA shooters, if you shoot ESP and have hi-cap mags, register in Limited or if you have only 10 round mags register in Production. IDPA SSP shooters can register in Production. Equipment rules will be relaxed so that you will be required in this match to use the same gun and the same gear for all stages.
6) Stages: Due to the anticipated large turnout we are going to drop the Stage number down from 6 to 5 and drop the PPC stage. I have heard from Wallum Lake and they are going to participate and bring to Harvard a Walls of Steel Stage. So the 5 stages will be: IDPA Indoor (no-light with us providing a flashlight - all reloads and movement between strings will be done off the clock with the lights on); IDPA Outdoor; USPSA Outdoor; Steel Challenge Outdoor; Walls of Steel Outdoor. Dropping the PPC stage will make the scoring easier as every other stage (except USPSA) will have a time-based final score. Dave can convert those to a percentage stage like USPSA and get a final match result.
7) Match Fee/Trophy/T-Shirts: We are not going to have trophies... We want as much money as possible to go to charity so we will be competing for bragging rights. At some point closer to the match I am going to create a match registration form for mail-in. If you want a match T-shirt you will have to register by mail so that we can have a count of how many T-shirts, what sizes, and we will have the money to pay for the T-shirts to have them made up and ready for distribution at the match. We agreed that the fee will be the usual $20 for the match and another $20 for the t-shirt. We aren't sure at this point the exact cost of the T-shirt but we are fairly certain it will be less than $20. Any extra $$$ in the difference between the cost of the T-shirt and the $20 collected will go to the charity. If you don't want a T-shirt, you can just pre-register with $20. If you want to shoot on a squad with some of your buddies, send in your registrations together and we will do our best to honor your requests. If you just want to show up on match day, pay $20 and shoot, we will fill you in on squads to even them out.
Charity: It is my understanding that John passed away due to a heart condition, and, we all know how great John was about helping out new shooters. So, I believe it would be appropriate to split the proceeds between the American Heart Association and to GOAL with the donations made to John's memory.
Raffle: Harvard Club President Dan Hurley has indicated on this thread that he would take care of obtaining any permits necessary to hold a raffle. If someone will step up to coordinate this to handle donations to the raffle please email me at
[email protected]. If we have someone who will do it I will post it to this thread - all proceeds to go to the charity as indicated above.
Posting of the Match: When we get closer to the match I can post something on the appropriate thread(s) to announce the details.
If anyone has any other suggestions, please continue to post on this thread for discussion.
Regards,
John Catterall