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I feel that the WCA needs to address their whole judging process for both the Diamond and Gold/Silver/Bronze judging. The Diamond class should be held either the day before (Thursday) or the day after (Sunday) so it does not take a way from the show, to allow the Dianmond judges a chance to enjoy the rest of the show and to allow the cars to be judged without interference from spectators. A larger fee should be charged so the judges could be compensated for their time. $500.00-700.00 would not be out of line to have ones car judged to the extent that was done this year. It would cost you this much or more at any other time to have just ONE of these judges go over your car in this detail. You had to be there to really understand and appeciate the Diamond judging process. The Gold/Silver/Bronze judging should be taken out of the hands of the car owners and done by people who know the cars. A place, such as a tent, should be set up where each car is taken and judged by a team of 4-6 judges, with each judge only doing a portion of the car. This way the process would be much faster and all cars would be judged in the same manner. I understand that some other national shows do it this way. I am not trying to bash the WCA, as they put in a lot of time and effort to put on this event. It is just that instead of changing, they are doing things the same way that was done in the past, which saw two national Camaro clubs fail. They need to get a group of concerned, knowledgeable people together and start with a blank piece of paper. That is what I tried to do with the Supercar Reunion. To do things a little different then other shows, such as no judging and exibition racing. So far, I have not heard any complaints about the cars not being judged and the racing must have been a good idea, as ACES (national Chevelle club) went to the same track as we did the year following our first event. Tom