NATCC Climber Registration

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The NATCC Operations Committee and the New Jersey Chapter are now accepting registrations for the 2013 North American Tree Climbing Championship to be held April 27 and 28 in Newark, NJ.
Each North American Chapter/AO may send a team of up to 3 competitors (2 men, 1 woman) to represent them. The representatives must have placed in the top five at the chapter competition within the current or previous 2 years. Please indicate your recommendations for your team with approval of the Chapter TCC Chair and return the form to me by February 22, 2013. You may also indicate alternates in the event that the first recommended competitors are unable to participate.
I have included the competitor registration forms as well for you to forward to your recommended competitors. Competitor should submit their forms with payment to Scott Tapp with the New Jersey Chapter (see submittal information on the form) by March 29, 2013. No competitor will be able to personally apply for inclusion into the NATCC without the approval of their Chapter TCC chair.
If your chapter is the chapter of residence for one of the current NATCC Champion who already have a spot at the competition, those individuals are not included as part of the chapter team. You may still select 3 competitors to represent your chapter.
Volunteers from your chapter who are interested in volunteering may request a form or download a volunteer form from the NATCC website.
Detailed information and updates can be found on the NATCC website at www.itcc-isa.com/natcc.
 

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If no woman competitor is available from a Chapter, will another male competitor take that spot? Or is the number limited to MAXIMUM two men from each Chapter ( excluding returning champion's Chapter)?
 
just one more thing to piss of a whole bunch of climbers
this thing shoud be open invitation,
cant believe its members only club!! whats next only natcc
winners go to internationals
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I disagree that it should be open invitation. Look at the European TCC. A gathering of the best-placing climbers in the EU. The NATCC should be a gathering of the best-placing climbers in North America.

I feel that the USA in particular has too many representatives at the ITCC. We need to start having Regional TCCs following our Chapter TCCs. The top from the Chapters go to Regionals and only the Regional winners go to ITCC. You could still have the NATCC with top finishers from Chapters, and send North American winners, too.
 
Our chapters are so varying in size. for instance the pacific north west chapter is 3 states and a province where Wisconsin is its own chapter. there is a huge variance in numbers there.
Im bummed Im gong to miss the NATCC this year. take lots of videos everyone!
 
If there were regional comps setting up the regions would be a challenge.

What criteria would be used?

Geography-based on the biome or similar tree cover
-state based boundaries

Population-resident population
-arborist population

ISA Chapter

It would seem that modeling the region on a system that is similar to the US House of Representatives would be equitable. Decide how many competitors would compete, divide that into the US population. Then, allow one climber to represent the same number of residents. If not, the densely populated NE US would have the potential for having more climbers than the thinly populated West, excluding southern California.
 
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If there were regional comps setting up the regions would be a challenge.

What criteria would be used?

Geography-based on the biome or similar tree cover
-state based boundaries

Population-resident population
-arborist population

ISA Chapter

It would seem that modeling the region on a system that is similar to the US House of Representatives would be equitable. Decide how many competitors would compete, divide that into the US population. Then, allow one climber to represent the same number of residents. If not, the densely populated NE US would have the potential for having more climbers than the thinly populated West, excluding southern California.

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You also have to consider the population of trees.
 
Also issues you have are scheduling, Cost and Volunteers. There is only so much to go around and some Comps are so short on all of the aboue. And if we couple Florida and California into the same region, the poor Florida climbers would need to purchase longer ropes.

(ha ha- short trees, ya get it)


jz - digging out from 2012
 
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I disagree that it should be open invitation. Look at the European TCC. A gathering of the best-placing climbers in the EU. The NATCC should be a gathering of the best-placing climbers in North America.

I feel that the USA in particular has too many representatives at the ITCC. We need to start having Regional TCCs following our Chapter TCCs. The top from the Chapters go to Regionals and only the Regional winners go to ITCC. You could still have the NATCC with top finishers from Chapters, and send North American winners, too.

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EU has smaller geographic regions it represents. What happened to the top competitors from each state? I'm from southern and we encompass 7 states!!! That is a lot of competitors. We have three climbers that have been to international in tennessee alone! Who knows how many from north and south Carolina. The one state chapters have it made. down here you have to scrap to get a chance. maybe i should move my membership..... Go north young man...
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I guess the last thing the ITCC wants is a bunch of "rednecks" countryfing the comps up, might look bad and ruin our image with the public.

First they come to our comp and take it over and kill the masters. now they say its fair that all the one staters can have three competitors and the south gets three out of seven states! hell, we should get 21 if that is the way the math goes.
 
Sounds like the southern chapter comp should be made into a regional comp. Qualify for the southern regional through other smaller comps ala New Zealand or UK/I etc.
 
Yes, but how many tree men per capita are there? i bet in the tennessee alone we have more tree men than all of Germany. why because we have more trees and more lines to be trimmed
 
However it gets shaken out... It needs to be done somehow. Population, relative population, chapter membership numbers, geographical area, etc. etc.

Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday.
Grandpa Simpson quote, "Later that day, we set sail for America."
 
Jeff the odds just got slimmer - Here is the list from the Southern Chapter

Alabama
Arkansas
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands

Who would have thought that Arkansas was part of the Southern?

jz - running out of fingers
 
why didn't Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands go to florida? doesn't make since….. why didn't arkansas go to texas or missouri? still doesn't make since… you'd think with nine states represented the southern would get at least four men and two women… … politics. Just sayen'
 
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