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Originally Posted by XcYZ
There you go putting words in other people's mouths again. Slow learner?
It takes a big committment to attend an event that's a day's drive each way. Personally, I have a job with major responsibilties with a required on-call schedule covering 24/7/365 that I share with 2 other guys. Getting significant time off (measured in days) takes planning months, if not a year, in advance. I have 2 kids. They have plenty of activities and sports that they are involved with outside of school. (I won't even get into all my web development work that I do at night)
When you have responsibilty, you can't just up and leave for 2 or 3 days without major planning. I also have to balance my available time off with family activities.
I KNOW there are countless members on this site that are in the same boat - trying to balance all the activities in their lives. Since I have to explain this to you, obviously you don't understand responsibilty. You just sit behind your keyboard and belittle members from your narrow view of the world.
Do I want to attend all these events? Hell yeah, of course I do. I promote them as much as I can. That's why I built, maintain, and host the Optima Invitational site. I want it, and all the other events, to succeed. I think it's fantastic that HPDE events are popping up all over the country.
So please think before you start running your mouth.
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Words in people's mouths? I invite people all the time. They don't show. On Weekends. I understand people have families and responsibilities. All of my friends that run in the competition groups have kids, jobs, etc, and they manage to deal with all that PLUS all the car prep and maintenance between race events.
Fact still remains, attendance remains low amongst this community. I too agree that its great that RTTC and events are popping up, and I even said so in my post.
I have no beef with anyone on any of these sites and have tried time and time again to meet people at track events. if you take my posts as belittling or offense I'm sorry. I invite, no one shows. 3-5 threads the past years. I put my effort trying to get people together as well.
No idea why I'm being attacked for stating the facts.