The following draft proposal has been put forward by David Stewart, VP Technical Programs for the Ontario Speed Skating Association:
Good Day All:
I have included you all in this list as I have heard from each of you at one time or another with reference to how to better serve our Masters skaters. Please share this with others for their thoughts, but we only have so much time before these rules need to be finalized and put into place in the Technical Bulletin (TB).
As we seek to finalize the TB for next season, there are a couple of items that we would like you to comment upon.
OCup Meets - Age Group
As with last season, suitably qualified Masters skaters (by time) may skate in the Open groups. The addition of a Master to the group balloons the group and DOES NOT displace an eligible Open skater.
Regional Meets - Ability
The Masters will skate as they have in the past. Mixed gender based on ability with groups not exceeding 15 in number. Where possible, group sizes can be adjusted to maintain a competitive spread in seed times within the group.
Regional and Masters Championships
All skaters, other than Masters, will skate as Age Class.
Masters will be skated as a separate group and will be broken down by gender and ability. The women will skate as one or two groups separated by ability and the men will skate as one or two groups separated by ability.
This change has DRAMATIC impacts on the meet and can only be accommodated with additional recorders. The Masters meet will be a "meet within a meet" and will have to be recorded on a completely separate protocol as age class and ability formats cannot be mixed in one meet using any of the programs available.
Therefore, in order for this change to be accommodated, the Masters group will have to be able to provide at least one additional volunteer for this meet who is capable of acting as recorder for the Masters races. The primary recorder will oversee their work and will work to integrate the race numbering, etc.
I would appreciate hearing from you in the next couple of days so I can finalize the next TB draft and issue for TC comment.
Cheers,
David Stewart
Those wishing to comment are encouraged to do so in the next few days by e-mail to Dave at stewoak@sympatico.ca.
Good Day All:
I have included you all in this list as I have heard from each of you at one time or another with reference to how to better serve our Masters skaters. Please share this with others for their thoughts, but we only have so much time before these rules need to be finalized and put into place in the Technical Bulletin (TB).
As we seek to finalize the TB for next season, there are a couple of items that we would like you to comment upon.
OCup Meets - Age Group
As with last season, suitably qualified Masters skaters (by time) may skate in the Open groups. The addition of a Master to the group balloons the group and DOES NOT displace an eligible Open skater.
Regional Meets - Ability
The Masters will skate as they have in the past. Mixed gender based on ability with groups not exceeding 15 in number. Where possible, group sizes can be adjusted to maintain a competitive spread in seed times within the group.
Regional and Masters Championships
All skaters, other than Masters, will skate as Age Class.
Masters will be skated as a separate group and will be broken down by gender and ability. The women will skate as one or two groups separated by ability and the men will skate as one or two groups separated by ability.
This change has DRAMATIC impacts on the meet and can only be accommodated with additional recorders. The Masters meet will be a "meet within a meet" and will have to be recorded on a completely separate protocol as age class and ability formats cannot be mixed in one meet using any of the programs available.
Therefore, in order for this change to be accommodated, the Masters group will have to be able to provide at least one additional volunteer for this meet who is capable of acting as recorder for the Masters races. The primary recorder will oversee their work and will work to integrate the race numbering, etc.
I would appreciate hearing from you in the next couple of days so I can finalize the next TB draft and issue for TC comment.
Cheers,
David Stewart
Those wishing to comment are encouraged to do so in the next few days by e-mail to Dave at stewoak@sympatico.ca.
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