Queenstown Winch Challenge

Big · Post by **Big** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 6:19 pm

Hi all, Here is Rick doing some of his antics with style as he does..
There is going to be a video made ready for the rest when it gets done.
Hope ya enjoy the action.
Cheers K

Ralfie · Post by **Ralfie** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 6:43 pm

For a while there I thought I was watching an off road race event, not a winch challenge.

Big · Post by **Big** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 6:52 pm

Ralfie wrote:For a while there I thought I was watching an off road race event, not a winch challenge.

Funny how things can change.. :lol:

Feeling I got in the morning was "too easy" but by mid afternoon that had changed dramatically :shock:

for the mid feild.. for the top trucks I suppose it was a walk in the park.. :roll:

Everyone got there winch out at least 1 time..lol :wink:

Hope everyone enjoyed themselves and breakages were at a minimum.. We wanted it to be a fun time not a super hard time..which we could have done. Maybe next time.. :lol:

Learn as you go I guess.. and as trucks become better and better then it makes it hard to setup as do you setup for the impossible..? Also for us down here land is almost impossible to come by to have events like this here.. so we do what we can with what we have.. oh well..

Ralfie · Post by **Ralfie** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 6:58 pm

If its a winch challenge then the main event has to be the winching and recovery techniques, not who has the loudest engine and heaviest right foot.
Its supposed to be undriveable ..........

If you want speed off road ORANZ caters for those people.

QUADRACER · Post by **QUADRACER** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 7:30 pm

Was a great event, there were a couple of speed section but all open class except one did not complete all the stages, so I think it was a great set up of stages. Will be back for next year

crazyclark31 · Post by **crazyclark31** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 7:43 pm

have to agree with quadracer. it is a great fun event were breakages are rare. Have always enjoy thier events. and am keen to come back for more.

NJV6 · Post by **NJV6** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:50 pm

Ralfie wrote:If its a winch challenge then the main event has to be the winching and recovery techniques, not who has the loudest engine and heaviest right foot.
Its supposed to be undriveable ..........

If you want speed off road ORANZ caters for those people.

Come and organise one for us then

slide · Post by **slide** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:33 pm

Ralfie wrote:If its a winch challenge then the main event has to be the winching and recovery techniques,

Its supposed to be undriveable ..........

Maybe a maximum tyre tread of 2mm, and maximum 32" Haha now theres some muzzaduck thinking but it'd make that winch much more needed....

LR90NZ · Post by **LR90NZ** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:23 pm

Of course Ralfie is pretty much right. A winch challenge is about the winch recovery, not speed. Timing the event was only a means of scoring with penalties for unsafe practices.

If you want I will come and run your event for you. Just say when.

Big · Post by **Big** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:52 pm

Im not into politics and hate it with a passion

BUT most of you have to realise that when we started setting this up( only 2-3 of us over 2 1/2 months every weekend of our spare time- let alone our personal cost).. EVERYTHING was frozen and you couldnt stand on half of it.. funny how the seasons can change things dramaticly and it seems easier..If you feel that you can do better up here then by all means come and let see you do it.. coming from an area where seasons are not as extreme as us and more reliable I can only see you fail miserably and then we have to contend with hardly any rain which we were praying for.. :wink:

and now 3 weeks have passed and it would be a hell place to be and I could only imagine everyone moaning that it was too hard..
Maybe next time we make so hard that everyone has to winch everything and see how that fits.. been there done that and entrants just dont want to push mud every hole and run string out.. let alone breaking things in every stage.. but if thats what people want..??? just hola and it shall be so.. If we do that then NO FRKING moaning.. take it on the chin like a man.

, You have to remember that when people are stuck it takes a long time to retreive them from where they are..Shit even the land .. its the best we could offer..
Ill start a thread closer to the time for what people want, thats if we have one.. yet again the few spoil it for the others..
We wanted a fun event that was technical and fast as well as winching.. but the weather here has a major part in trying to acheive that.. we're not GOD.. Search our rain fall..? it's fk all compared to the rest of the country.. except the last week or so :lol:

could have done with that on the 1st.. Maybe a mid winter W/C ? ice everywhere and you winch everything?
Please dont post negative comments unless you have constructive criticism in which case we learn..
Cheers all, sorry for the rant but it seems that some people just dont understand the effort we have put into ours this time.. considering that the last W/C was almost our last due to 1 person who was competing..Amazing how 1 person can fk it up for those that have a passion..and love wheeling not matter where..
We will almost curtainly make our next way harder.

K

Batfastard · Post by **Batfastard** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:59 pm

Big dont let it get you down.
Correct me if im wrong but was it not the queenstown winch challange....

Its your event you set it out how ever you want.....why people need to be so negitive i do not No

Listen to what the people that competed said ,not the armchair warriors . :m

Best of luck next year,dont bow down to outside pressure.

The vid made me smile :mrgreen:

LR90NZ · Post by **LR90NZ** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:00 am

Whoa there, back up and take a deep breath. There was no malice intended with my comment.

I wasn't criticising the event, just replied to an offer to assist.
I know what it is like to run these events. I have had the privilege of running the very first couple of winch challenges in NZ after attending similar events overseas, so that also means I know what the original concept of a winch challenge was.

I have been to many events both here, in Australia and Malaysia (RFC) and am about to head off again in the morning to the longest winch challenge event in Australia. Assisting with the set up and running for the 8 days of XI-RFC Australia which starts on Saturday.

basics · Post by **basics** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:31 am

Batfastard wrote:Big dont let it get you down.
Correct me if im wrong but was it not the queenstown winch challange....

Its your event you set it out how ever you want.....why people need to be so negitive i do not No

Listen to what the people that competed said ,not the armchair warriors . :m

Best of luck next year,dont bow down to outside pressure.

The vid made me smile

agree with this, the event looks good fun. im sure even the pros dont like busting there trucks at every event.

and LR90NZ, good luck for the following week over in aus.

QUADRACER · Post by **QUADRACER** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 6:58 am

all the people that competed in this event loved it, this was our fifth winch
challenge in the last five months, and was a great event with some different stages, to keep all the entrances fizzing.
well done, every one has a different opinion on how to set up stages but who runs it get to design it.
agree with some of the feedback but its your event, i also have been involved with running winch challenges, and yes there are always critics
but as you saw at prizegiving, there were smiles all round.
keep up the good fight ,
some will love it , some will hate it.
depends on how your day went.

cheers Bob

JR · Post by JR » Tue Sep 18, 2012 6:48 pm

i had a go at being navi for rick in this event, found it to be one of the best that iv been to. the set out was mint,you got to drive some of the stages rather than winch through mud all day long, and to be fair i think thats how your going to get more people into the sport. if people just break stuff all day no new people will be botherd competing,to expensive. putting in a few hard,technically challanging stages that can possibly be driven every now and again,no harm in that.

everyone that ran this event did a bloody good job,and ill be pushing to bring my truck next year as it was a hell of a lot of fun.

antsarooney · Post by **antsarooney** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:45 pm

There you go Keri sounds like everyone that was there had a great time and thats what matters.
Ants

Tommo · Post by **Tommo** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:54 pm

I don't often get involved in these threads, but I agree with JR. My wife and I try and compete in the odd winch challenge and believe that to get more people involved in the sport, we need to provide events where people get the satisfaction of competing, being able to complete most of the stages within the DNF and not destroying their trucks in the process. If you make a course that only the top level competitor is able to complete, then you will eventually find interest in the sport will die off. Well done to the Shotover Club, we will be back again next year if possible.

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