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Summary

This document seeks to formally announce the WARG 2024 Competition Roster. The comp roster this year had several new elements and complications, wherein the team:

• implemented a self-nomination form for the first time.

• intended to bring 12 participants (a maximum set by the cars we were allocated).

• needed to reduce the comp roster from 12 to 8 per updated competition requirements 7 days prior to the deadline.

  • therefore needed to waitlist 4 of our competition roster members, pending space at comp venue.

This document details the competition roster, the process that created it, and identifies flaws to improve in next year’s cycle.

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We sent out a competition interest form ~ 6 months prior to needing to lock in the roster. A flaw was that it did not include all info we needed for forms including shirt size or , emergency contact info, and drivers license status. By the time we started weighing and comparing individual people it was a bit late rush to meet the deadline for submission. The internal comp roster list was created on April 1, 2024, approx. 9 days before submission deadline.

This resulted in some rash director decisions and poor communication internally.

Constraints

Competition informed us ~ x 7 days before the deadline we were locked into only taking eight people to competition whereas we initially planned on taking at least ten. This immediately put pressure on us to start comparing people. We were also given four people to shortlist that if the competition had extra space we could bring as well. We investigated doing our own hotels, but decided against this due to cost and logistics challenges.

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