<VV> Awards, was: Convention Schedule

[Dennis Pleau]

I put together a big Excel spread sheet that had a page for every competitor
and a summary page, that took the class and totals off each individual page.
Worked like a champ.  I also made one for the auto-X which did the same
thing but wasn't very complex.  This was for the 96 convention.  That was
several computers ago so I'm sure I don't still have a copy, but I'm pretty
sure I forwarded them off to the next convention.

I've been involved in tabulation scores at three conventions.  We never had
any issues.  The easiest was using the Excel macro.  Being Concours chair
and oversleeping in the morning at Tahoe was a problem.

dp

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Subject: Re: <VV> Awards, was: Convention Schedule

Au contraire, Mark.

Detroit 1979 may in fact have been the cluster that you describe, but at 
Parisppany in 1984 the concours was held on Saturday, the last day of 
the convention, and the day of the banquet.  We were told it couldn't be 
done.  Hogwash.  We devised a computerized tallying system and, 
utilizing only three humans, had all the results organized and ready 
well in advance of the banquet.

In fact, it went so smoothly that we wound up second-guessing 
ourselves.  It was too easy.  So as the banquet was getting under way, 
our tabulators went back and did a few random cars' sheets by hand, the 
old way, to check.  All was perfect.

I guess the CORSA concours committee suffered from NIH because no future 
convention used our computerized tallying.  I do not know how it is 
being done today.  Has the concours committee discovered EXCEL yet?

--Bob Marlow