Letter to You, My Friends

Hey everyone!

My first year of college is finally under my belt and I have made the adjustment from dorm living back to living at home and back to working.  Because of finishing my Spring semester of college, taking finals, making those transitions, and having a social life (yes I do have one!), it's been a bit of a struggle making it back here to give you all an update.  I am finally back with an update/letter that I felt was necessary for myself and that I hope you will read all the way through and consider.

A lot has changed since my last update.  The new system WILL NOT be in effect for the next NARAM, it will only be formally presented at NARAM 58.  There will be a period of time for evaluation/revision.  Please take note of this.  There has been a lot of confusion, frustration, and fear about this, it will not be in effect immediately.  Next, the committee knows there are concerns and skeptics (keep in mind I do not speak for them and am not part of the meetings, ContestRoc is an open source for everyone).   They are still competitors and know your concerns, they have been listening to them for years.  They are transforming ideas every day to make this new system fit the needs of the hobby as best as possible.  Please trust them to do this.  I know trusting people is hard sometimes, but I think you will all be very happy with the results.  Trust the people in the committee, they were chosen for a reason and come from all realms of the competition world.

Please give the committee a chance.  Please give the new system a chance to finish being developed before you start over analyzing details that aren't even on paper yet.  Please wait for the committee to present what it has, you will get better results by giving them time and room to work.

I apologize for the late update, but before I end this post, I have something I would like you to consider.  How can you judge a child's attitude, performance, behavior, ambition, or personality before it is fully formed and born?  How can you judge this system when it is also still being formed and not ready to be introduced to the world?  Have patience, have faith, have trust because I have hope that this system will solve more problems than I ever intended it to solve, just as a child can grow to become so much more than you could ever imagine.  When I sat down during NARAM 57 and wrote my article, I only had the basis of an idea to help B Division.  Now the committee is working on so much more than just helping to save B Division, they're helping to restore the hobby.  This hasn't been my project since last summer, it is theirs and they are doing amazing things!

Yours,
Michala