Comrade Bork, you seem to be the official voice of GSSF and a "bean counter". You responded not with any reason for why another competition category should not be added, but threw out numbers to show it was not financially possible.
I would like to know if GSSF is self supporting or does it require funds from Glock Inc. It really does not matter as Glock Inc. is I'm sure writing it off as advertising. To use an old NASCAR analogy, win on Sunday sale on Monday.
Glock is not the US Government who can just throw YOUR tax money around because they can always beat more out of you.
Glock cannot survive without profits on its sales of guns, and GSSF is
not self supporting. What Glock pays to subsidize GSSF comes directly out of Gaston Glock's pocket. That is why there has to be a solid case made to support additional prize categories. The indirect benefits of adding some new GSSF award class have to, in Glock's opinion, outweigh the added costs to implement it.
I have always been impressed by the payout by Glock in pistols and cash. In my better days I won a pistol and several hundred dollars when the A, B, C, D classes were used to equally distribute prizes. I was very surprised to learn at the 2015 Morganton, NC match [had not shot any matches since 2004] that system had been abandon for the random awarding of pistols and cash. A solution maybe in returning to that system and simply add E, F, G etc. classes as dictated by number of competitors. Everyone then competes in their own little zone of ability and sometime we get lucky. I don't buy very many lottery tickets.
The problem with that old A, B, C system were that classes only divide evenly every third number.
That is, if you have 90 entries in a given Division, you have exactly 30 in each of A, B, and C.
What happens if you have 89? the way GSSF did it then you have 29 in A, 30 in B, and 30 in C.
So, where the 1st place B and C guns "fell" depended entirely on the total of number of entries there were that weekend.
At one match, you could be 29th and last "A" and win bupkiss to show for it. At another, you could be 29th and 1st "B" and win a gun. No one knew until the results were processed and it was determined where the class splits fell. That is a quasi-random system.
Also at the time, there were rumors that people were sandbagging their shooting to try to fall into the range where the "C" gun usually hit, rather than shooting to the best of their ability. It
could be calculated within a range of about 10 seconds, plus or minus..
Also, that old prize distribution system only applied to Civilian and what is now Guardian. It did not apply to all the other Divisions. Even though at the time, Guardian was no longer the 2nd biggest GSSF Division. People shooting the other Divisions were in effect subsidizing the Guardian shooters. Totally unfair to them.
So GSSF scrapped the Lewis system and re-did their prize selection to reward the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place shooters for doing well and made the random selection process
purely random across the entire
match, not across individual
Divisions. I might add, if you win 1st/2nd/3rd you can STILL win another random gun or cash award on top of it! Random is Random. It gives people incentive to not only shoot well, but shoot a lot!
I for one think it was a vast improvement.
Not trying to start a war but we can do numbers if you like. 700 [estimated at Morganton] competitors times $5.00 = $3500.00.
The $25 entry fee goes straight into the costs of the match and the costs of the awards. GSSF/Glock does not make or lose a nickel on entry fees. Again, the case has to be made that the change is worth the additional trouble to do it.
That buys a lot of Glocks. Actual production cost has been estimated by many to be less than $200.00 per pistol. How about a Superb Senior category and a plaque.?
What is the advantage to
Glock to do it, is the question you must answer.
What is the advantage to Glock in some super-senior prize category?
"Because I think it wo0uld be a good idea" just does not cut it.