Palo Alto Concours d'Elegance - End of an Era

[korazzon]

The event was a complete disaster - a shadow of the show at Stanford which we participated in for many years. Broken web site, poor communications, horrible venue, no lunch for participants, many display cars forced to park on tarmac, terrible PA system and lousy announcer, bad organization, I could go on and on. Worst of all was the mangling of the SCCA score sheets by the inept staff. Several awards were given incorrectly or not at all, and the recipients were humiliated and embarrassed. Days later, the organizers had still not straightened out the mess. The management needs to be canned and the venue needs to be changed to someplace fitting like a country club. It may be too late. It would appear that a once great Concours has been irreparably FUBARed. We will never attend this disaster again.

[Got the Bug]

Originally Posted by korazzon

The event was a complete disaster - a shadow of the show at Stanford which we participated in for many years. Broken web site, poor communications, horrible venue, no lunch for participants, many display cars forced to park on tarmac, terrible PA system and lousy announcer, bad organization, I could go on and on. Worst of all was the mangling of the SCCA score sheets by the inept staff. Several awards were given incorrectly or not at all, and the recipients were humiliated and embarrassed. Days later, the organizers had still not straightened out the mess. The management needs to be canned and the venue needs to be changed to someplace fitting like a country club. It may be too late. It would appear that a once great Concours has been irreparably FUBARed. We will never attend this disaster again.

Sounds like a mess. I'm sure the organizers are going to get an earful and many long time participants probably just won't go back. Like Randy suggested, they need to take a hard look at bringing the event back to Palo Alto (park, golf course, etc.).