10 iasca regional shows cancelled!!

[SPL140.2 5,000+ posts]

The hard drive tour iasca regional tke events are cancelled due to the promoters. God **** promoters. This sucks!!! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/uhoh.gif.c07307dd22ee7e63e22fc8e9c614d1fd.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/uhoh.gif.c07307dd22ee7e63e22fc8e9c614d1fd.gif

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[azbass 5,000+ posts]

that sucks

 

[LBX2G 10+ year member]

do u kno why they backed out?????

 

[SPL140.2 5,000+ posts]

do u kno why they backed out?????

From: Paul Papadeas, President

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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