![]() But I’m left shaking my head thinking “ no wonder no one takes this sport seriously.” Perhaps they really were trying to hang in there until the very last minute, fighting like hell to avoid the inevitable. I wonder, along with thousands of angry participants, how a company can willingly take in that money knowing that it would be making this announcement within a matter of hours. ![]() But from what I gather, 5K Foam Fest was accepting registrations up until the day before it declared it was closing it’s doors….with NO refunds to participants. ![]() Now, I am not one to claim to even begin to understand how these businesses work, hell I’m probably Dave Ramsey’s biggest nightmare. Clearly they were not another fly-by-night series. They had over 650,000 facebook fans before they pulled the page at some point this morning. Let’s all take a moment and laugh at this, the best (worst) promo video of a race that never actually happened, before I get serious in the rest of the post:īut back to the subject at hand: what happens when a clearly well established race series goes under? 5K Foam Fest had been putting on what most rated excellent races for well over two seasons before things started to fall apart. Early last year I wrote a post for Obstacle Racing Media about this very topic, demanding that entities wishing to enter our community not only take their role seriously, but treat the community as a whole with respect by providing solid, well executed races instead of simply bold statements. ![]() This Facebook announcement had nearly 1,000 angry comments before the entire page was taken down.Īnyone even remotely connected to the obstacle racing world knows that fly-by-night race organizers, promising the biggest, baddest experience yet, have been plaguing our community almost since its inception. ![]()
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