Re: Splitting and Consolidating JCNA Concours Clas

Steve is doing yoeman's work on this subject, and I agree with him for the most part. Perhaps this is just based on our experience in Arizona, but we have a heck of a time planning because there are so many classes. You can't really turn people away who show up at the last minute, but with so many classes, the chances are that anyone who shows up wins something.

If a club offers up to third place trophies, there could be as many as 90 awarded. That would make for a long awards banquet.

Based on Steve's charts, I think we could safely combine C1A and 1B, C8 and 9, C10 and 11, C15 and 16, C17 and 19, and D9 and 10. That would drop the current number of classes from 30 to 24. I think combining C2, 3, and 4 would create a class too large, as Steve suggested, and an open/closed split would make a more uneven distribution than we currently have.

Longer term, I propose that there be some kind of re-evaluation on an annual basis. This re-evaluation could be done based on the average number of entries per concours that year or by keeping the number of classes constant.

An example of the first case would be to examine any class that had an average of three or fewer cars per concours for combining with a similar class, and examining any class that had an average of more than five cars per concours for splitting. (The numbers are examples and might have to be adjusted.)

In the second option, if the number of classes were kept at 24 (using my example), the least entered would be examined for combination with a similar class, whenever possible, and the most entered would be examined for a possible split.

One advantage of an annual re-evaluation is that it would encourage participation in judged classes to some degree, especially in the first instance. If you show your car, there will be a greater chance that your class will be around the following year. If you don't it could be combined, meaning more competition in the future.

Just some suggestions I'm throwing out for consideration,

Mark