Are you sitting down???

This is my personal opinion, not that of the HCA (and I think Matt may disagree based on his prior post)...

As much as I am an extremely strong advocate of SMOD, I think the Alter Cup and qualifiers are hugely important to all cat classes, and the OD classes should get behind them.

That means helping fund them, finding a way to incorporate scoring (i.e. HCA national points), helping run them, and any and all other avenues that are available.

Division 16 / Fleet 204 did a great job with the event they hosted on Tigers, and even if there were issues (aren't there always?), that was a great model to follow.

The one argument that is hard to battle is the amount of vacation time (how many week-long events can someone attend), but I think that really only applies to the actual championship, and should not be an excuse to not support the qualifiers and overall program.

Mike