Tamiya USA Presents The MSD Scale R/C Nationals, May 15-17 2009 in Helena, Montana
This will the largest SCALE R/C event in the USA in 2009.
Event Schedule:
If you plan to come to town early and wish to judge, let me or WarPig - Tim know and we will put you on the judges list.
This is the list of judges I have so far....
Definates for 1.9 Friday:
Tim Samuels (morning)
Ryan Gerrish
Chad Hand
Jim Hand
Devlin (morning)
Craig Wyman
Chris Wyman
Jeremy Bartlett
Glenn G.
Alternate: Steve Stickle
Definates for 2.2 Saturday:
Tim Samuels (morning)
Ryan Gerrish
Devlin (morning)
Craig Wyman
Chris Wyman
Jeremy Bartlett
Glenn G.
Steve Stickle
Maybe for 2.2 Saturday:
Chad Hand
Jim Hand
Any of you other than Devlin have a preference of morning or afternoon? Bear in mind that the courses are bound to get tougher and a little torn up as the day goes on.....
May 15th Friday
7:00 am Tech inspection and check in
8:00 am 1.9 Scale comp atarts
4 courses, top 5 guys run finals course at the end.
7:00 pm Potluck at the MSD shop, awards assembly and prize raffle."thumbsup"
May 16th Saturday
7:00 am Tech inspection and check in
8:00 am 2.2 Scale comp atarts
4 courses, top 5 guys run finals course at the end.
7:00 pm Potluck at the MSD shop, awards assembly and prize raffle."thumbsup"
May 17th Sunday
7:00 am Tech in
7:30 am drivers meeting
8:00 am 2.2 Pro comp starts
USRCCA rules apply. http://usrcca.com/rules.htm
4 courses, top 5 guys run finals course at the end.
Awards assembly and prize raffle will follow immediately after comp. "thumbsup"
Here is the town of Helena:
http://www.mapquest.com8/maps/map.a...=&cat=&address=&city=helena&state=mt&zipcode=
Here is where the site is:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.ad...te=MT&zipcode=59601-9663&country=US&geodiff=1
Here are directions from town to the comp site:
http://www.mapquest.com/directions/...2g=&2pl=&2v=&2n=&2pn=&2a=&2c=rimini&2s=mt&2z=
List of Hotels in Helena, near the I-15 interchange, Hotels range from $42 - $135 a night:
* Best Western - 1-406-457-5500
* Holiday Inn - 1-800-743-7480
* Colonial hotel Red Lion - 1-406-443-2100
* Days Inn - 1-406-442-3280
* Hampton Inn - 1-406-449-6132
* Holiday Inn Express - 1-406-449-4000
* Jorgenson's Inn and Suites - 1-406-442-1770
* Motel 6 - 1-406-442-9990
* Shilo Inns - 1-406-442-0320
* Blackstone Inn - 1-406-442-3064
* Winngate Inn - 1-406-449-3000
There is also a USFS camp site 5 miles from the comp area, sites are $9 a night, no showers, just bathrooms. Go to www.USFS.com and look up Rimini Montana. Moose Creek camp area .
The Comp site is on private property this year, we got a generous donation of land, 880 acres, about 5 square miles of wilderness, NO CAMPING on private ground, sorry. We will need to respect his ground and do a SERIOUS clean up before we leave.
The road to the site is a county road, rimini road. It is dirt and gravel with washboards and bumps like most forest roads. Parking will be one thing we have to pay attention to for sure. If you can carpool to the site that will be very helpful. there is lots of room, however, if we have too many rigs, they will have to park in a single file line. There is pleanty of parking at the bottom of the hill, however, that is almost a mile from the comp site, so you will need to shuttle up there with others if you drive alone.
Although scale rigs are the main theme of the event, bring anything you want. 2.2s and 1.9s will have the most fun here. We will run 2.2 comp rigs on their own course's, Sunday, USRCCA rules apply. http://usrcca.com/rules.htm
We will have a raffle and drawing for this event, so if you and your company would like to donate raffle items and have your name on the Banner,Advertising, Magazines and T-shirts, please PM me. We need them by April 30th, no exceptions.
List as of now for the raffle:
Tamiya USA Title Sponsor
Montana Scale Designs
HPI Racing and HB
Venom Group International
Axial
RCCrawler.com
Tammies Hobbies
TCS crawlers
Scale4x4rc
Reign RC
Hand bros off road
Creatacrawler wheels
Maximizer products
Proline racing
Holmes Hobbies
CKRC Crawlers
Team Tekin USA
Vanquish products
Crawler Graphics
Northland Hobbies
Rocky Mountain Hobbies
The Treasure Chest
Futaba
Panther
RC4WD
Taylors Hobby Products
KXLH/ KRTV.com local tv stations
Local newspaper will do 3 day coverage, helenair.com
Local TV will do 2 nights on the news also. KXLH.com
Number of vehicles per class will be limited to 40, so make sure you register early as there will be no extra spots. Remember you can only drive one vehicle in each class, meaning, if you want to run 1.9 and 2.2, you need 2 rigs. But multiple drivers can enter the same vehicle in any given class.
If you have wood bridges, rope bridges, scale obstacles and parts to use in a course of any kind, please bring them, we will incorporate them into the courses.
Registration will be on March 16th, we will post up a link, only 40 spots for each class, so don't delay on your registration.
Please see the " Rules " thread for all the points and penalties.
Most of all, this is supposed to be a FUN comp, so bring your smile and good attitude, we are happy to have you at the Tamiya USA, MSD 2009 Scale R/C Nationals."thumbsup"
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