Voting results

[Rick Pinkney]

Here are the results of the email vote by Provincial Presidents and Executive. In total there were 14 votes, however Fred as President only votes in case of a tie. Lise did not vote. Therefore there were 12 votes cast.





1. Are you in favour of cutting the Men's Open classes from 11 to 7 in right and left. The classes would be as follows: 63kg, 70kg, 77kg, 86kg, 95kg, 105kg, 105+kg

YES - 10 NO - 1 ABSTAIN - 1 - PASSED

2. Are you in favour of cutting the Ladies' Open classes from 7 to 4 in right and left. The vast majority of ladies' classes have no more than 2 entries and many times have been empty.
The classes would be as follows: 60kg, 70kg, 80kg, 80+kg

YES - 11 NO - 1 ABSTAIN - 0 - PASSED

3.. Are you in favour of cutting the Men's Grand Masters classes from 3 to 2 in right and left. The 90+ class has only ever had more than 1 person in it twice in the past 5 years.
The classes would be as follows: 80kg, 80+kg

YES - 8 NO - 4 ABSTAIN - 0 - PASSED

4. Are you in favour of cutting the Men's Masters classes from 5 to 4 in right and left. The classes would be as follows: 80kg, 90kg, 100kg, 100+kg
The average entries the past 5 years for 10 classes is 36

YES - 10 NO - 2 ABSTAIN - 0 - PASSED

5. Are you in favour of cutting the Ladies' Masters classes from 4 to 3 in right and left. The most entries we've had for Ladies' Masters is 13 total (right and left combined). There has never been more than 1 lady in the 60kg class and the left has been empty 4of the past 4 years.
The classes would be as follows: 70kg, 80kg, 80+kg

YES - 10 NO - 2 ABSTAIN - 0 - PASSED

6. Are you in favour of Triple Elimination?

YES -11 NO - 0 ABSTAIN - 1 - PASSED

7. WAF has changed the rule for referees grip. You now only have 30 seconds to get a grip before Referee's Grip is applied. Should the CAWF do the same?

YES - 11 NO - 1 ABSTAIN - 0 - PASSED

8. WAF has changed the rule, whereby if both competitors agree to start in either straps, referees grip or both they may do so. Should the CAWF do the same?
YES - 9 NO - 3 ABSTAIN - 0 - PASSED

9. Are you in favour of cutting the referees to 5 on Saturday (2 tables plus kids table with 1 ref). This would save the host $300.
YES - 10 NO - 2 ABSTAIN -0 - PASSED

10. Are you in favour of having referees and scorekeepers having to share rooms. Each person must share a room or only have 1 1/2 nights covered as opposed to 3.This would save the host approx $2000 - $2500 depending on hotel cost.
YES - 12 NO - 0 ABSTAIN - 0 - PASSED

11. Are you in favour of allowing "elbow bumps" whereby if a person's elbow lifts vertically off the pad without gaining an advantage. If the elbow comes off in the winning or losing position it is still a foul.
YES - 6 NO - 5 ABSTAIN - 1 - PASSED

[davecampbell]

I think this is a step in the right direction. When will these changes take place?

[Will Sarty]

Awesome news!

Hopefully effective date will be for 2014 nats!

[Eric Roussin]

Thanks for leading this, Rick.

[Jay Riehle]

Great stuff!!!! Looking foward to the new format. Many thx to all who participated.High time we started the rejuvenation process.

[Rick Pinkney]

Right away, so 2014 Nationals will have new rules, triple elimination on Sunday and new weight classes.

[Jeff Miller]

Wow, thanks Rick. I think that should be 78kg instead of 77kg in the men's open, if following Nemiroff (since the rest of the open men's classes on the voting poll match Nemiroff, except the additional 105kg one). I posted the missing poll about the three very similar 7-class open men's systems, because that was never flushed out. Honestly all are so close it is likely neither here nor there, but can't hurt to have a say on preference.

[Rick Pinkney]

Things can always be tweaked or changed. Nothing is written in stone.

[mwiggins]

holy sh11z nit I can't believe they all passed. it might take a few tweaks here and there over the next couple years but I say progress has been made today.

[Jeff Miller]

^ I'm still in shock as well, and happy about this too.