Interesting to note that there is no Intro Class this month - I hope the beginners aren't getting scared off

Wonder what it is with beginners, they are sooo ungrateful

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Wonder what it is with beginners, they are sooo ungrateful

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Hi Emre. Could you expand on this statement? What do you mean?

It has been long since acknowledged that this class is for beginners/newcomers only, and when they win the class it means they must compete in the advanced class, thereafter.
With so little entries, it means its an almost cert, that a newcomer will win it eventually, and hopefully this will give them the confidence to go further. It is also a way to attract new modellers to enter the competition. When there is no entry in this class … all three prizes go to the advanced class.
I personally like this system, and hope it does attract every newcomer to the site to participate in the competition.
But I really can’t make head nor tail of your statement, or what you mean by it.

Relax Frank, it was meant to be a joke, but I wasn't clear enough...

What I was trying to imply is that there was much fuss about beginners outshadowed by intermediate class modellers, so now the intermediates are together with the advanced (and outshadowed by über-advanced in turn ). Yet after this change, while the beginners should be confident to join and compete, there are hardly any models at all. By ungrateful, I was referring to the lack of interest to the beginners class of DMOM. They have a whole class of competition all to themselves, yet they are not benefiting from this.

I hope it is clearer now. I find it surprising that there isn't even two or three models to compete in this class, even when there are a lot of beginners in the forums asking questions and the like. As you stated, it is really easy to win in this class, so I expected people to be grateful and join. Seems I was wrong.