Ohhh Myyyy

[Tanis]

Great job as always Parker, you are hands down THE BEST course designer I have ever met and it's always a pleasure to test my skills on them.

My issue with the call is this: The judge did call for a marshall after pointing out the body was out of spec, and Jake said he was the marshall :?:? What else could the judge have done to stop the run at that point? The Marshall just Ok'd his own out of spec rig....I'd call that a conflict of interest

 

[davec]

From the information I have heard, from a reliable source that was at the event, the out-of-spec body was questioned at least twice and on 2 different courses. To keep running an out-of-spec body speaks of one thing in my opinion, ARROGANCE. Plain and simple, somebody thought they were better than the rest and were above the rules. Unfortunately, their actions were rewarded with a national championship. I know that if somebody questioned a body that I was running and it was the least bit close, I would take the touch and immediately fix it. Seems like he could have done this and still easily won the comp, but instead decided to prove he was above the rules. The debacle with the raffle/prize giveaway seems ridiculous to me. I have been to a lot of crawling comps and more races than I can count and never, ever seen anything done like that. I know that I will never purchase another thing from CKRC, they have tarnished their already poor reputation. And Parker, you are the man. Things definitely could have been handled better, but you are man enough to admit mistakes were made and own up to them. Others would be wise to follow in your footsteps. Keep up the great work and I hope to get a chance to drive some of your awesome courses again.

 

[STEW<CO>]

It's amazing that certain people are so blind as to notice their own short comings. You know the type that think their always right and never wrong and never will admit to any wrong doing. Shows a real lack of character.

This person knew the rules, knew it was wrong, and still did it anyway. High & mighty attitude as well as being quite childish.

This person may be the one of the coolest to hang around and a pretty decent guy, but when they show a lack of morals to this degree, they lose all respect and trust and integrity with people that have those morals, no matter how cool they are.

FREAKING WEAK!

P.S. Obviously this is not B.P. I'm referring to.

 

[DISTURBIN' tha PEACE]

From my understanding the "driver" was hung over & didn't make the drivers meeting & allowed to show up after 2 pm. In all other forms of motorsports if you miss the DM, you're done for the day.

Why was he still allowed to compete?

 

[run2jeepn]

No one is blaming you Parker.... The work you put into it was great. The whole issue. Really wasn't from that event alone or even just RC alone. Things from Company pactices, 1:1 and past History. Just caught up with him is all. This was just the straw that broke the Camels back. I feel Sorry for jason, Badger, yourself, judges and anyone else who was there. It's sad that one persons mistake can make such an impact on our sport. I know jason and john will make things right. I jumped the gun and posted a few things that might not have been thought out 100%... But I just hate to see this crap happen.


Good luck to Parker, Jason, John and the Rules Comm.... USRCCA depends on you guys....

 

[DISTURBIN' tha PEACE]

First let me preface this with the fact that I have not met Parker & if I did, I'd probably like him.

Ok, now, all of you swinging on his nuts, WTF?? You all bitch about the "driver" & "his" shop, yet he still stands by this person.

 

[STEW<CO>]

No one is blaming you Parker.... The work you put into it was great. The whole issue. Really wasn't from that event alone or even just RC alone. Things from CKRC, 1:1 and his past History. Just caught up with him is all. This was just the straw that broke the Camels back. I feel Sorry for jason, Badger, yourself, judges and anyone else who was there. It's sad that one persons mistake can make such an impact on our sport. I know jason and john will make things right. I jumped the gun and posted a few things that might not have been thought out 100%... But I just hate to see this crap happen.


Good luck to Parker, Jason, John and the Rules Comm.... USRCCA depends on you guys....

You guys better watch it was said "no more personal attacks" I would assume that means putting a persons name to the talk.

First let me preface this with the fact that I have not met Parker & if I did, I'd probably like him.

Ok, now, all of you swinging on his nuts, WTF?? You all bitch about the "driver" & "his" shop, yet he still stands by this person.

Watch it with the nuts talk, buddy. Your friends know what an a**hole you are and they're still your friends. That's what makes a friend. Get it.

 

[DISTURBIN' tha PEACE]

I stand by my words.

He can declare him DQed, Drop the CKRC from his sig & them he'll get all the made props from me.

 

[run2jeepn]

You guys better watch it was said "no more personal attacks" I would assume that means putting a persons name to the talk.

I edited my post took all names out of it. Not trying to attack anyone by that post.

I wasn't trying to come off as a personally attack. If this exact same thing happened to someone esle. They would have ended up different. It would look like a truly honest mistake and fixed on the spot to cont.... So many things have happened in that past. Guys can only Ignore so much for so long. Then you add it was the Head Organizer, Past History, the tension from moving the date up and the location, the giveaways and etc... Alot of feelings build up over time.... Like I said it was the straw that broke the Camels back. We can all learn off this and it can only get better.

I just Glad Jason and John were still able to work on it to fix it."thumbsup" I just hate to see it had to be that way is all.

 

[ThinkTank]

Why was he still allowed to compete?

The driver almost owned the USRCCA, he felt above everyone.

First let me preface this with the fact that I have not met Parker & if I did, I'd probably like him.

Ok, now, all of you swinging on his nuts, WTF?? You all bitch about the "driver" & "his" shop, yet he still stands by this person.

Collateral damage isn't fun, especially to someone who doesn't deserve it.
There are other drivers on the team, Are you asking them to resign as well?

 

[ZoSo]

the only person responsible for their rig ...is the driver
and Jake should know better!

 

[crash]

I have never met you parker--I have seen pics and known guys who have ran your courses--and heard nothing but good. Not only on your course building ability but your character. I have read alot on the whole subject, seen different views and opinions, heard from the horses mouth what went down---not once were you mentioned as part of the equation of the problem---I don't see a need for you to aplogize as I don't see you as a aperson who has to

8)

 

[jcnalley]

No, because he would still have won the supers even with a 50 on the course the judge had an issue with his body.

But if his body was out of spec, he should receive a 50 for all courses. Every year it's something dramatic with this driver....does anyone else see a trend?

 

[wrightcs77]

I have "heard" there is more to this story than this, but is not/will not be public knowledge.

Good luck to everyone trying to straighten this out, the damage has already been done.

 

[KRAWLR4life]

Parker, you are hands down a genuine, 'man-of-honor', all around awesome dude and you know we all love you man. I cant imagine a major comp without your "DO WORK DRIVER" yells! You are a solid part of our hobby/communiity so Im sure none of this BS reflects you man...
I've hung out with you guys a few times, got to know Jake enough to know that he is a good husband and an awesome father and probubaly a great friend!
Heres the problem...
Jake is a competitor who feels the need to come out on top, ALL THE TIME and sometimes this causes "Wining Additcs" like himself to do wrong things, like cheat. Like others have said its not the first time he's done these type of things (remember his signature...).
If he was just a 'regular' competitor dude, he would have been banned a long time ago, the problem were having now is he's allowed to always cheat beacuse he's up there on the "r/c crawling food chain" and that has to stop.
I'm sure sponsers and vendors would not want to support this type of behavior in a driver who is always in the public eye.
I dont think this will hurt our hobby, it will only clean it up and make it better (I hope "thumbsup")

So bottom line...
Jake is a great Husband, Father and friend but not really a 'good sportsmanship' like competitor... IMO.
Oh and King... its ok to loose sometimes bro...

 

[SlickRockSpider]

The point is not the body. He could have fixed the problem and continued on (right?).

The problem was that he acted like a king. Everybody else has to deal with the rules.

This is the Worlds. The best come to prove how good they are. The rest of the world watched it on RCC. I think it is embarrassing and a shame to the sport to have one person above all of the rest.

Not very long ago this same king altered the course with a shoe. Then brags about it "the most infamous foot in the nation" Once again people are working hard to follow the rules and the king throws this in there face.


What to do.


Parker:

You are one that I hear the most positive remarks about. I had the good fortune of meeting you at WCC 08. All of those positive remarks where true. "thumbsup"



Evan

 

[EvilTwin v2]

Honestly, to me, if it was just a competitor that got caught cheeting, I don't think it would have been nearly this contreversial. The problem is that it was a person who was helping run the competition. This puts a bad taste in peoples' mouths. Those who are running things need to hold themselves to a tighter morality for the sake of the sport.

I know it's not on the same level, but at my last local comp, the guy filling out my score sheet miscalculated, not figuring in a gate penalty that I had. This would have put me in 3rd place for the comp had it not been caught. Well, as I was tabulating the scores, I caught the error, and corrected it myself, thus placing myself in 7th place. Could I have turned a blind eye and let it pass? (Well, I couldn't, but maybe somebody like the person in question in this thread would have.) I however, as a (fairly new) officer in our club put a considerably higher priority on furthering the experience and the sport for all that attend than I put on my own success within an individual competition. I have also witnessed others at competitions call gates on themselves...even when our points title was on the line.

It comes down to this question: What is your integrity worth? I refuse to put a price on my integrity. Looks like one person in particular at Worlds has no integrity whatsoever.

 

[slowngreen]

Why does the "King" not address his nation?:roll:

Same question keep entering my mind.