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Title: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: kris on March 22, 2009, 10:43:45 pm
This thread is dedicated to all discussion and questions regarding the April 10-12th, 2009 weightlifting meet.

Click here if you wish to sign up for the meet. (http://virtualmeet.net/community/forum/meet-talk/287/0/)


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: warren on March 31, 2009, 04:26:09 pm
I'm sitting this one out due to other commitments in April, but I shall be entering the June WL meet.


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: kris on April 07, 2009, 08:49:49 pm
With a little help from my friend the Easter Bunny, all lifters should now find the usual lifter info tucked neatly into their inbox (or spam boxes in a worst case scenario). The final line up has also been posted (http://virtualmeet.net/community/forum/meet-talk/287/msg2059/#msg2059).

We are still lacking judges for this meet. If anyone is interested, please contact me. Otherwise I'll do the usual round to find three judges.

Good luck everyone! Thumbs up especially for Kat who is doing a birthday meet. :)


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: kris on April 10, 2009, 09:51:50 am
Meet weekend!


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: mightykat on April 11, 2009, 01:33:44 am
Sorry to say I'm sitting this one out. I spent the week down on the couch with a nasty virus. I'm not recovered enough to lift. Good luck everyone, especially Christine, now the sole female. Get it, grrrl!


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: kris on April 11, 2009, 07:57:59 am
Hey Kat, sorry to hear that, but thanks for letting me know. Hopefully you were still well enough to have one whoppin' birthday. Belated congratulations! :)


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: Weeflerunner on April 13, 2009, 04:21:17 pm
Meet completed and videos uploaded successfully, on the first try this time!

I was looking forward to seeing your platform in use Kat, hope you're feeling better for your meet this coming weekend.


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: mightykat on April 13, 2009, 05:19:01 pm
I was looking forward to seeing your platform in use Kat, hope you're feeling better for your meet this coming weekend.

Thanks! That's so cool of you to say. I'm now reaping the benefits of my time down http://mightymix.blogspot.com/2009/04/quality-recovery-training-benefits-of.html, and I'm ready to bring it next weekend. I'll send you a link to the meet results in a PM.

Glad to hear the meet/upload went smoothly for you. Good luck with the judging!


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: kris on April 13, 2009, 11:09:54 pm
Jeff, awesome avatar picture and meet setting! Can't beat that...

Kat, the comma after your link had sneaked into the link itself, took the liberty of fixing that so the link works (and a good read it was too with the quite unexpected silver lining...).

Meet update tomorrow. :)


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: mightykat on April 14, 2009, 01:15:44 am
Thanks, Kris! You're so easy to please  ;)


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: Weeflerunner on April 14, 2009, 01:45:37 pm
Jeff, awesome avatar picture and meet setting! Can't beat that...

I'm hoping I can beat it next meet with some better weather...  It was threatening rain the whole time and I ended up rushing my lifting a bit.

Just a quick technical thought on the Avatar, it would be nice if the size limitations was shown next to the upload box on the profile edit page.  After failing to upload twice I downloaded your avatar and opened it up to see how big it was.


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: kris on April 15, 2009, 10:07:59 am
Meet update: we had a bit of a drop out this time around as two lifters called in sick and four lifters failed to show up. We have two judges now and will probably have the third one in quite short order, so the meet should enter the judging phase soon. With only three lifters in the meet, it may be a quick affair, but as usual the judges will have seven days to complete the judging.

Just a quick technical thought on the Avatar, it would be nice if the size limitations was shown next to the upload box on the profile edit page.  After failing to upload twice I downloaded your avatar and opened it up to see how big it was.

Jeff, good feedback, thanks. I'll add the info later today. :)


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: kris on April 16, 2009, 10:29:03 pm
The meet will go into the judging phase tomorrow Friday. It turned out that there was some communication problems in regard to some of the dropped out lifters and my inquiry into the issue hit the spam folder, but the happy upshot of it is that we actually have five accepted lifters in the meet now.  :)


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: kris on April 18, 2009, 01:55:31 am
The meet is now with the judges, namely Jamie Jamieson (http://virtualmeet.net/jamie/) (Canada) and Brent Kim (http://virtualmeet.net/brentstayshungry/) (USA) who once again come to the rescue. Thanks guys! The third judge will jump into the mix as soon as we have one. :)

The lifter line-up (http://virtualmeet.net/community/forum/meet-talk/287/msg2059/#msg2059) has also been updated.

Stay tuned!


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: kris on April 18, 2009, 05:20:57 pm
Update: Ron Villani (http://virtualmeet.net/ironman50) is in as the third judge. Thanks Ron!

33% of the meet is judged now.


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: kris on April 21, 2009, 08:02:08 am
Judging has been completed, thanks to all judges!

Let's see what could be done about releasing the meet later today. :)


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: kris on April 22, 2009, 08:40:30 am
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Let's see what could be done about releasing the meet later today. :)

A certain tired dad fell asleep yesterday, new try today.  ;D


Title: Re: DISCUSSION: Weightlifting, 10-12 April 2009
Post by: kris on April 22, 2009, 09:24:47 pm
The meet has been released! (http://virtualmeet.net/meets/200904wl) Plenty of impressive lifting and judging by earlier meets some PRs were broken too while at it.

On a personal note, and being an outdoor training buff myself, hats off to Jeff Sutherland (http://virtualmeet.net/weeflerunner/) and Charles Elliott (http://virtualmeet.net/cellcan/) for going at it outdoors. Loved it. That said, Jeff, you should move the camera a bit closer next time to better fill up the screen. :)

'Nuff said, time to watch some videos ->