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Official 2014 SS Georgia Rally Multimedia SSGR14 thread

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Finally got all 849 pics from my nikon lined up and now starting to go through them. Thought that without waiting I should post these. I hope the moderators will not give me an infraction for double posting.

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The T-shirt says it all

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Ok, so we have compiled the attendance information from the registration tent and we need to revise down the attendance figures. Initially we believed the count for powered vehicles was 136, but some civilian vehicles (Honda Civic? rofl) were counted.

Once swbradley1 had time to go over the sheets, he found the errors and corrected them.

The new attendance count for 2014 is 130 powered military vehicles and 3 shelters, 36 military trailers and 2 MKTs.

So a total military equipment (trucks and trailers) count of 171 units! :goodjob:

We grew right at 20% in one year-the 2013 count was 109 and this year was 130, that's right at 20%. Very few events in this world can grow 20% in one year, especially in the awful economy we've had since 2008.

Here is breakdown of the powered vehicles. As is traditionally the case with Steel Soldiers, we trend heavily towards the 6x6 2.5/5 ton trucks and CUCV's.

This was the year of the Jeep and the M939 series-a lot more Jeeps than we've traditionally had and a lot of growth in the 939's, which is to be expected with the flood of them in the last couple of years. Deuce attendance was the strongest at 40 trucks.

We appreciate everyone coming to hang out with us, we hope you all had a great time and we hope to see you all next year. You all took part in one of the biggest rallies in the entire Country and we can make that claim all because so many people drove a loooong way to come be with us.

We (rally mgmt.) are currently going over all the data from the 2014 event and working on improvements for the 2015 event.

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That attendance chart is impressive!

As for the Honda Civic, please at least tell me it was OD green?
I think what happened was this:

Traditionally, we counted vehicles as a way of measuring rally attendance. But this year, we decided to try and capture some additional data so we could better understand the rally and how to make it better. One of the pieces of data we decided to capture was the amount of money attendees were spending at D-town.

So what this meant was on the sign-in sheets, people who attended and spent money at D-town but who came in their civilian vehicle were included on the sheet. And in the mad rush of the rally, it was difficult to manage the sign-in sheets 100% accurately.

Next year, we're going to change up the layout of the sheets to avoid this.

Was this the first year for fmtv's as well?
As far as privately owned MTV's, I believe so. We did have a guard unit bring one a few years ago as a PR thing.
 
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