Re: [AGA-mcm] AGA2K4 Feedback Summary

["Sean Murphy" <seancmurphy@hotmail.com>]

I'm not going to spend any time couterpointing the 'off the mark' 
criticisms, I think we can pick those out and discard them easily and focus 
on the ones that help make things better.  I would like to say that I 
thought it was important for the judges to be heard a bit and I think Erik 
did well with only two judges that spoke english.  The others judges 
speaking Texan and through a translator are naturally going to slow some 
things down.  It's just going to happen that way.  The contest garnered a 
lot of discussion on the forums I frequent and having the judges talk about 
the contest is the best way to send out 150 people to help answer negative 
comments because they know the story from the horses' mouths.

About G being rude, he's not, even when pressed.  He's straight forward and 
if the person didn't like the real answer they would think he was rude 
rather than someone who wasn't sugar-coating things.   I'd just figure they 
were talking to us in our sleep deprived state and we didn't give them the 
answer they wanted.

Sean C. Murphy
SCM Tourney Boards / Fisheries Biologist
There is a fine line between fishing and standing on the bank looking like 
an idiot.

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----Original Message Follows----
From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
Reply-To: AGA Advisory Committee <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
To: AGA Advisory Committee <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] AGA2K4 Feedback Summary
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 21:27:28 -0800 (PST)

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Ghazanfar Ghori wrote:

> "The rude and unnecessary remarks to attendees by Ghori during
> registration and the auction check out. He may have worked hard but
> his efforts were generally failures and his attitude and actions were
> extremely un-welcoming. "

That criticism came from Leon Garden, not anonymous, so you could always 
send him your picture and ask if he got the wrong person. :)  Leon has been 
to many, if not all, of the AGA conventions over the years.

In terms of personal criticism, this one hit me the hardest:

"During the announcements of the awards, the speaker rudely ran ahead at his 
own pace without letting the judges say what they wanted to say, with the 
exception of perhaps one judge who seemed to have the microphone the 
majority of the time. "

Granted the person had no idea the reason I was doing this was to keep the 
awards "announcements" to the 30 minute slot we had planned instead of the 
52 minutes it eventually ran once everyone had their say, but hey, maybe 
they didn't see the previous years where I was able to keep the judges 
better corralled.  But I'll sure be trying to have printouts next time, and 
having a little huddle with the judges beforehand.  Or not, as some (like 
Scott) felt it was the "best discussion" on the winners yet.

  - Erik

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