length of your class national champs

If you check most Mationals that last a week they usually only do 1 race a day or maybe 2 so you get a 7-10 race series.

The Scorpion Nationals is a week long event, there was a consideration to drop it to 4 days a few years ago, and I think it did go to a vote. However most the places we hold Nationals you tend to need to book accommodation by the week rather than the night so makes little difference to time/cost commitments if you reduce the number of days. (Most of our Open events are over two days anyway, some three)

Fireball have been Sunday - Friday for many years with a lay or reserve day normally on the Weds. For '16 we're going to try Thurs - Sun and keep the same 10 race series - no lay day. We'll see what it does to the turnout.

Edit to add that the family have come with me to all major champs so far, both UK and abroad, with only a couple of exceptions. The Bread-knife views it as an opportunity to explore new locations.


Edited by Noah - 30 Jun 15 at 4:33pm

Originally posted by Noah Fireball have been Sunday - Friday for many years with a lay or reserve day normally on the Weds. For '16 we're going to try Thurs - Sun and keep the same 10 race series - no lay day. We'll see what it does to the turnout. Edit to add that the family have come with me to all major champs so far, both UK and abroad, with only a couple of exceptions. The Bread-knife views it as an opportunity to explore new locations.

it will be interesting to see what happens with the new format

The 49er's have run a kind of flexible solution for a few years, no one has complained but equally no one has really taken advantage of it either, it works like this;