Re your last point - not strictly true.....CeeBee wrote:An interesting point re promotions and bib number.
No idea is this would work, but if you assume that priority should be given to those in the Division before Paddle Ups, could you be allowed to enter with your 'old' bib number from say Div 1 but be allowed to put in the date of promotion to prem which would have to be in say the past week at the point of the online entry? This would allow the entry to be accepted pending the new bib number coming through.
If the race is full at the point you try to enter on line or by post, then anyone in the host division should leapfrog paddlers on the waiting list. So for the Paul McConkey, the waiting list would the prem paddlers followed by the Div 1 paddlers i.e. priority is given to the host division.
It's host paddlers received before the priority date by entry received date
Followed by remaining entries in order of date received
So a host paddler entering day after priority date will find themselves behind all paddle ups who registered before the priority deadline.
Re the first point. There is nothing to stop a newly promoted paddler from entering as a paddle up and then contacting organiser to say they have been promoted which would mean that the Organiser could 'manually' push them to the top of the queue. This is already the case. To do what you suggest sounds simple and is a good idea, but is actually quite complex for what should be a relatively rare case (only really likely to be an issue for a paddler promoted from div 1 to prem exactly 5 weeks before the date of the prem race they want to enter, and may not occur even then if the bib application is sent off immediately and bib officer is not on holiday!).
I'm also slightly concerned of it being open to misuse from the over-ambitious, over-confident paddler jumping the gun.
It is still an option though so I will see if I can find a way of simplifying