What people don't understand is, this shit was never properly thought out or designed to be correctly scalable.
It was cliques, it was ad hoc, it was meant to put something between the shooter and the MD to make money off the popularity of the sport. It was not flushed out with growth in mind.
There was no business plan, there was no real mission statement, and because it changed hands so many times it was never fixed to created a standardized system for growth,
The divisions are terrible, confusing, not well supported, it was never an equal distribution of attention. It was the open guys and everyone else, and when people complained, they threw out a word Like: Production Division, without designing something that was actually going to work.
If you are really paying attention all the effort goes towards the marketing and revenue growth, very little towards managing the shooters or designing something that works like a sport. It's all independent match directors, doing whatever, with ZERO enforcement from the series. Its' really just designed to create categories for the internet and not really divisions for the application on the ground.
This is why people have come on here to complain, they want to see it work as things do in other sports. But that is not reality. The less is better approach was fine when the only real part of the business was hosting score and taking in membership fees, but now with the growth the shortcomings are like neon signs for many people.
Yes, shooters with a token appreciation or who may only shoot a few local matches and maybe one National will never see an issue. The farther you go down the leaderboard the less it matters. However, when the leaderboards at the top are so tight, it's these rules that help balance the field.
The models are out there, just being ignored because, that's not us, or why put in the effort when there is no reason. Avoiding, ignoring has worked so far. A few token prizes, a seat at the Finale table, guys are happy. But are they really.
Imagine having a facility at your fingertips, could be Altus, K&M, Rifles Only, any one of these style places controlling a sport and no content is coming from there. No hunger to improve only to sell ad space on the signage, most of the content we see is not about improving or educating the shooter, or helping their members, it's all about who they sold an ad package too. That is the majority of the press releases.
I get it, it's a ton of work, I don't want to do it, but then again, consider what I do control and what efforts you see one guy put forth vs a crew of people, most of whom would volunteer to help, yet silence.
Divisions help in many ways, too many and you water things down, not enough and you alienate people. In my opinion, having two rock-solid choices opens the door to both simplicity and inclusion. The rules can be better crafted, the people can be served as equally as possible in the rewards, and the biggest part, you know where you stand walking in the door. it's not thinking it's one way, but then finding out its completely different on the ground because there is no standard from match to match.
It was cliques, it was ad hoc, it was meant to put something between the shooter and the MD to make money off the popularity of the sport. It was not flushed out with growth in mind.
There was no business plan, there was no real mission statement, and because it changed hands so many times it was never fixed to created a standardized system for growth,
The divisions are terrible, confusing, not well supported, it was never an equal distribution of attention. It was the open guys and everyone else, and when people complained, they threw out a word Like: Production Division, without designing something that was actually going to work.
If you are really paying attention all the effort goes towards the marketing and revenue growth, very little towards managing the shooters or designing something that works like a sport. It's all independent match directors, doing whatever, with ZERO enforcement from the series. Its' really just designed to create categories for the internet and not really divisions for the application on the ground.
This is why people have come on here to complain, they want to see it work as things do in other sports. But that is not reality. The less is better approach was fine when the only real part of the business was hosting score and taking in membership fees, but now with the growth the shortcomings are like neon signs for many people.
Yes, shooters with a token appreciation or who may only shoot a few local matches and maybe one National will never see an issue. The farther you go down the leaderboard the less it matters. However, when the leaderboards at the top are so tight, it's these rules that help balance the field.
The models are out there, just being ignored because, that's not us, or why put in the effort when there is no reason. Avoiding, ignoring has worked so far. A few token prizes, a seat at the Finale table, guys are happy. But are they really.
Imagine having a facility at your fingertips, could be Altus, K&M, Rifles Only, any one of these style places controlling a sport and no content is coming from there. No hunger to improve only to sell ad space on the signage, most of the content we see is not about improving or educating the shooter, or helping their members, it's all about who they sold an ad package too. That is the majority of the press releases.
I get it, it's a ton of work, I don't want to do it, but then again, consider what I do control and what efforts you see one guy put forth vs a crew of people, most of whom would volunteer to help, yet silence.
Divisions help in many ways, too many and you water things down, not enough and you alienate people. In my opinion, having two rock-solid choices opens the door to both simplicity and inclusion. The rules can be better crafted, the people can be served as equally as possible in the rewards, and the biggest part, you know where you stand walking in the door. it's not thinking it's one way, but then finding out its completely different on the ground because there is no standard from match to match.
