05/29/2026
I will always remember the people who supported us while we were growing.
I will also remember the people who only showed up to point out every mistake... publicly & facetiously.
Building something from nothing is messy. There are bugs. There are mistakes. There are growing pains. There are things that work perfectly, and there are things we're still improving every single day.
The easy thing to do is sit on the sidelines and criticize. The hard thing to do is build.
Over the last few years we've been building a league, a judging system, software, rankings, championships, media platforms, partnerships, and opportunities that simply did not exist before.
We're not claiming to be perfect.
We're claiming to be willing to do the work.
Every season gets better. Every event gets better. Every software update gets better.
One day, when everything is polished and running seamlessly, there will be people who say they always believed in the SCCA... 👀
That's okay. But know this...
The people who were here during the late nights, the software bugs, the growing pains, the mistakes, the lessons, and the victories know the truth. We read your comments & hear your whispers, and we take it all to heart.
I appreciate the people who appreciate us. The others, I hope you w**d yourselves out sooner than later.
We're building something special.
Not for ourselves.
For the future of ALL cookoffs.
And we're just getting started. 👀
And for those wondering what the latest "issue" was...
It was publishing the results from the SCCA SuperBoil World Championship.
Most people see a list of winners and think it's as simple as clicking a button.
It's not.
This event wasn't one cookoff. It was multiple competitions running simultaneously, with different divisions, different categories, multiple judging panels, finals rounds, season points, state championship multipliers, world championship calculations, team profiles, leaderboards, and historical records all tied together.
Our judging software handled the scoring side just fine.
The challenge was getting all of that information displayed correctly on the website in a way that made sense to the public.
We ended up custom coding a solution to publish the results, and it took much longer than anticipated to get everything displaying correctly.
On top of that, we're currently tracking down an issue affecting some of the season point calculations. Rather than ignore it, we'll stay up all night if we have to until we find the problem and fix it.
That's what building looks like.
One thing we've learned from this experience is that we need a staging environment where we can preview exactly how results, points, rankings, and event pages will look before they're pushed to the public website.
Right now, that feature doesn't exist.
Today, when we hit "Publish," we don't fully know how everything will appear on the public-facing side until it's live.
Then we review it, identify issues, make corrections, and improve it.
As a result, we're investing in another major software upgrade that will allow us to preview and verify everything before the public sees it.
The reality is we're building this system while simultaneously running one of the largest cookoff organizations in the country.
Every bug we find gets fixed.
Every problem we encounter gets solved.
Every event makes the platform better.
We aren't running from the challenges.
We're building through them.
Thank you to everyone who has shown patience, grace, and support while we continue building what we believe is the best thing to ever happen to competitive cookoffs.
