Hello Stateline Jackpot Association members!!
Is it spring yet?? This rain and sunshine sure feels like spring!
The email account has not been checked since the awards banquet in October, so please be patient while I catch up with the 100+ emails from members. Hopefully this post and memo will answer most of your questions.
Below is a memorandum containing some concerns that were taken from the questionnaires at the 2013 awards banquet. PLEASE READ THE MEMO.
There will be a member meeting held the night of February 26, location to be determined. Any concerns with the proposals in the memo below can be voiced at this meeting. You may also pick up your member jackets at this meeting if you did not receive it at the awards banquet. I apologize, but I still have way too many jackets to arrange individual pick-ups.
Our first jackpot is proposed for April 14 in the *NEW* Tremonton indoor arena. This is 8 weeks away, so start prepping your horses!
Hope to see you next Wednesday night, February 26! (I will let you know of a location ASAP - the time will be 6:30/7:00ish.)
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Stateline Jackpot Association
MEMORANDUM
TO: Stateline
Jackpot Members and Participants
FROM: Stateline
Jackpot Association
DATE: February
17, 2014
SUBJECT: 2014 Jackpots
Beginning January 2014, a few volunteer members
met to discuss the questionnaire filled out by members from the 2013 awards
banquet. The questionnaires and concerns
for the 2014 jackpots were discussed, along with suggestions for any association
rule changes to be made to improve the Stateline Jackpot Association.
The dates for the 2014 jackpots were
suggested as follows:
April 14 – Tremonton (*NEW indoor) arena
May 5 – Preston arena
May 19 – Malad arena
June 2 – Logan arena
June 30 – Lewiston arena
July 14 – Preston arena
August 4 – Tremonton (outdoor) arena
August 18 – Preston arena
September 8 – Logan arena
September 22 – Tremonton
(outdoor/indoor) arena, depending on weather conditions
These dates and arenas will be reserved
by volunteers of the association, but are not yet finalized for the 2014
Stateline jackpots.
The lack of gate/barrel/pole setters was
also discussed as a continuing problem for the last few years. The jackpots for 2013 did not run quickly or
efficiently because of the lack of volunteers to help set the gates, barrels,
and poles. It was suggested to increase
the entry fees by $1 as a donation to the gate/barrel/pole setters. This would increase the open entry fees to
$26 ($28 for nonmembers) and the youth entry fees to $16 ($18 for nonmembers). This $1 per run pot will be split between the
gate helpers, barrel setters, and pole setters (and possibly announcers and
tractor help) that stay for the entire
duration of the jackpot (beginning with youth barrels at 6:30 p.m. and ending
with open poles).
Because of the lack of help in set up
and timers/announcers for the time-only runs before the jackpot (from 5:00 p.m.
– 6:00 p.m.), it was proposed to remove the time-only runs before the jackpot
begins. The youth barrels will continue
to start at 6:30 p.m. Volunteers will
now only need to show up at 5:30 p.m. to stake for youth barrels instead of
4:00 p.m. to stake the arena for time-only runs. Time-only barrel runs will still be conducted
after the time-only pole runs. The order
of events is proposed as follows: youth barrels (starting at 6:30 p.m.), open
barrels, youth poles, open poles, time-only poles, time-only barrels.
The uneven division splits (number of runners
falling into each of the divisions) were another concern voiced by members at
the 2013 Stateline banquet. It was recommended
to split the open divisions evenly by
full-second splits. With full-second
splits, the division separations will be as follows: 1D = fastest time, 2D =
fastest time + 1 second, 3D = fastest time + 2 seconds. After testing the average of the jackpots
from the 2013 season, this will better separate the divisions evenly between
the 3 divisions. Youth events will continue
to split each division with full-second splits as well.
It was proposed to change the year-end
awards to include a saddle as a high-point “grand” prize. The saddle winner will be the member (youth
or open) with the most points on a single horse in a single event in a single
division. The high-point winner will
still need to follow Stateline Jackpot Association rules (i.e. compete in at
least 5 jackpots, obtain a paid membership to earn points and awards,
etc.) To offset the cost of the
high-point saddle, Stateline will only go down to 5 places in each division for
year-end awards, eliminating the 6th and 7th place awards
(as given in past years).
These suggestions and rule changes are not finalized. A meeting will be held on the night of
February 26, 2014 (6:30 p.m.?) for all Stateline Jackpot members to voice
concerns and comment on the proposals stated in this memorandum, location to be
determined. If you did not attend the jackpot and you have a member jacket from the
2013 season that has not been picked up, you can pick up your jacket at this
meeting. If you have comments about
these proposed changes, make sure you attend this meeting or have a
representative there. Email responses
may not be received prior to the meeting on February 26.
ncs
