Well fellas and gals, it’s happened again; our TKE event schedule has been affected by the producers of partnered events. Publishing giant PRIMEDIA (Car Audio& Electronics Magazine amongst others) has announced yet another cancellation of 10 events, in the series called the Hard Drive Tour. After a number of our IASCA soundoffs were cancelled last year by smaller promotional companies, Extreme Autofest and Import Life, IASCA felt it was a tremendous advantage to our competitor base to involve ourselves with a company the size of PRIMEDIA whose primary business is selling advertising to our industry’s manufacturers.
We labored under the assumption and felt confident that this colossal publishing company had the ability to produce and promote a tour the size of what the Hard Drive would have been. ESI (Event Solutions International) producers of over 2000 nationals events a year with OEM clients the likes of Dodge and Volkswagen, was the production company contracted by PRIMEDIA. It is incredible that PRIMEDIA cancelled the first two shows only a few short days before the first event and then canned the entire tour only days before the “would-be” third event. They too are extremely disadvantaged by this movement and certainly not responsible in any way for this action. I may add that ESI have been nothing but professional in this enormous upheaval. The NCCA (Car Show people) and IASCA were contracted by ESI to produce their segments of the show. Both companies and their members remain affected by this cancellation having made preparations for travel, judges and such.
In this era of weakened support for soundoffs from our industry’s manufacturers, it was and still is, necessary to partner with other shows to provide our competitors with national competitions. Unless sponsors step up to provide these venues, it is impossible to produce the budget to do so; entry fees can only go so far.
I realize this comes as a huge surprise and inconvenience to our member base who were counting on these events to qualify for finals participation. Rest assured that we will support our members in every way we can to ensure that their desire to attend finals competition are met.
IASCA is diligently seeking alternatives to replace the now cancelled PRIMEDIA Hard Drive Series.
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He didn't end that on a remotely positive note.
I hope he find something to replace it. It would be nice if he would go with a huge influx of 1x shows for free or next to free just to get the IASCA name out there again.
Hopefully he can come up with something. Maybe a point sharing system with other orgs, and a unified finals.
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I was relying heavily on that show to qualify for finals, it was 1 of the 2 shows I could possibly make.
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^Just become a member, my gut tells me either open finals or if you hit any shows you will be invited. You can't have a 35 point requirement and no shows.
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