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Originally Posted by EricH
No, I'm not in the area. I never asked to be involved; if I had wanted to be, I wouldn't have had much of an idea how to get involved.
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I'm sure you'd quickly realize that contacting the Regional Director would be a great place to start.
If you wouldn't have come up with that on your own, and if you weren't part of a team in the area, and if you didn't go to any competitions where the information was available, then I don't know what to tell you.
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That was my point. I've been following this thread today, and it just seems like the folks that are active in MAR are assuming that their information on how to be involved with planning and meetings and all that made it to everybody. This information is incorrect, or was...but operating under the assumption that everyone who wants to be involved has information on how to get involved is not ideal.
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The information might not have "made it to" everybody, but it was certainly "made available to" every team in the area. That some team contacts failed to pass it on to anyone is unfortunate. It is also unfortunate that the MAR board has no control over such things.
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Flyers at events, assuming both that they have the information needed to get involved and that they are distributed appropriately, do have a tendency to end up in piles of paperwork or in the trash or buried in someone's bag. Email, though better, can still break down, as shown here. Hey, maybe a post on CD about "Hey, we're forming X group, here's how to get involved" would work--but I didn't exactly see that info in a post. Definitely a good effort, now that I hear what they did. Team communication breakdowns are not the fault of the organization. Just maybe a general announcement via some non-email communication might have been a really good idea.
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I'm not sure what you're suggesting should have been done. Don't flyers count as "non-email communication"?
I'm also more than a little confused about Akash's position. The team went defunct? If that's the case, I don't really see how anyone could expect its former members to be specifically targeted with useful information. I'd say that disbanding a team and not going to any events fits the description of "intentionally" avoiding MAR.