What happened …6
October 7, 2011 by MartinB. | 7:00 am
to “Ride To Glory” 2010??? Does anybody know anything??? Will there ever be any results??? Strange situation!
What do you think? If you got any infos or thoughts about RTG 2010 just let me know in the comments below!
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The organiser, David Paredes, is now studying in Göteborg, and the moderatos of fingerboarding.es are not doing efforts on having the results. Anyway, if the moderators do an effort, it won’t help ’cause its Mr.Paredes who organises this so…I think this is a big fail, I don’t care about a big part of the spanish forum hates me because of saying this, is the truth, and I cannot lie about this.
The situation ‘is not so bad’, and all the videos in the category ‘VERT’ are checked, the judges only needed to correct the last ‘STREET’ videos categorie, but fortunately, it is already less …
The truth is that this year has been a failure because they did not expect so many people participating, but they are ending, so, if I may say so, its a good new
Thoses “escuses” are stupids, it’s been month (a year even) that we all ask for something from the organisers !!!
You tell us everytime the same thing, and no word from the real organisers, but always from someelse…
Yes the contest have mor entries than suspect, but the correct attitude of the orginizers was to keep people in the news, and not the “silence attitude” they have.
The only news we add, it’s when people complain about it on FFI or here…
Grendel, those are not escuses, this is the real thing.
The moderators started so relaxed to give the results, but, when poeple of around the world started to say “What on earth has happened with with RTG?” they started to get fast with the results.
Anyway, we all want to get resultes NOW, but we’ll have to wait. Ah, another thing, David, has to pay the ships to all the winners, and that’s a lot of money, wich he pays, not you, and if he doesn’t have the money to send the prizes, who will send them?
Jordi, you’re right, but, this is not a valid excuse, it’s a bad organization problem, and, all the spanish scene it’s like FFI, expecting for the results, and they are angry too… But we have to accept it and wait a little bit more, i supose that the mods will finish soon…
Best Regards, Ferran.
Hi everybody,
I’m David, the main organizer of Ride to Glory. First of all, I know that the second edition of this contest is a real shame, and I’m the first responsible of that. We have no excuse to be so slow judging the videos, so this is not a excuse to defend ourselves, it’s only a explanation for you to understand us, at least a bit.
The first edition of Ride to Glory was really successful, mainly because of the excitement and the passion I felt about fingerboarding, as the rest of moderators. I had to pay above 300 € of shipping costs and we spent LOTS of hours judging videos, but it was worth for me because I really enjoyed it.
Nevertheless, when I organized the second edition I wasn’t so exited with fingerboarding, but I did it because I wanted it to be a yearly contest. We received thousands of videos, it even took to me several weeks making a list with all the entries to judge (you have to realise that I have my own life too, with studies, friends, girlfriend… so I only can spend some time with fingerboarding everyday).
The Vert category is ready, but we’d like to announce both results together. Now we’re judging the Street videos, but they are A LOT. I know that moderators (judges) could be faster than they are, but I can’t press them, they aren’t receiving anything for doing it, it’s only because they want to.
All the prizes (except BRR) are in my house in Spain, and of course they will be delivered, don’t hesitate! The problem is that this year I’m studying in Gothenburg (Sweden), so even if the videos are judged and we publish the results, I won’t be able to send the prizes until Christmas.
In summary, we know that this contest was really bad organized, and if we took responsability about something now we have to deal with it and complete the event. But please, understand us, this wasn’t made with malice, RtG was created for you (and us) to enjoy! And of course we are not scammers, all the prizes will be delivered, and if it’s not possible because of some reason, they will be returned to the companies.
We are really sorry, please don’t blame Spanish scene about this. The only guilty is me.
Regards and sorry for my English,
David