PRO SHOW

1st Kris Frome - 177 - Nissan Skyline

2nd Matthew Robinson - 176 - Hyundai Tiburon



PRO STREET

1st Andrew Kelly - 117 - Mazda Astina


AMATEUR SHOW

1st Geoffrey Northcott - 170 - Ford Falcon

2nd Rowan Phillips - 163 - Honda Civic

3rd Richard Whitfield - 160 - Toyota hilux


AMATEUR STREET

1st Riley Schultz - 121 - Toyota corolla

2nd Ben Waugh - 114 - BMW 735i

3rd Callan Higgs - 114 - Holden Commodore

Luke Edwards - 113 - Ford Fiesta

Ashley Costello - 108 - Honda Civic

Justin Chang - 107 - VW Polo

Adrian Fogarty - 107 - Mitsubishi Magna

Alex Cavanagh - 104 - Hyundai Excel

Gary Bull - 102 - BMW 735iL


NOVICE

1st Sam Houston - 112 - Toyota Hiace
2nd Robert Ryan - 111 - Nissan 180sx
3rd Raymond Coleman - 102 -Subaru Forester
Shane Roser - 102 - Ford XR8
Sam White - 101 - Nissan Pulsar
Ben Lillyman - 92 - Subaru Libarty


ENCOURAGENT

Ben Lillyman - Subaru Libarty


JUDGES CHOICE

Geoffrey Northcott - Ford Falcon


Congratulations to all the competitors, some very close competition accross all classes

Huge thanks to Autobarn Macgregor for hosting the show and to all the sponsors of CAASQ for making it all happen.

Well done Geoff, Judges choice too



I thought Riley was meant to be 'Pro'?????? Or have the rules changed again?

We had a meeting with all Amateur competitors before the show and the decision made by the competitors was to let Riley finish his season in Amateur as he has only just started a traineeship in the industry and has not gained any benefit.

Next season is a different story

I don't see how its fair, where someone with close to $10k worth of gear and a full custom boot install can enter the novice class which was probably tuned by the place where he got it all installed, I really don't.

Thanks brad it was a good night for the falcon coming home with frist place and juges choice.

I belive your talking about the 180sx? He doesn't work in the industry and was competing for the first time.

For those that didnt realise, if you win Novice you are automaticly moved up to Amateur the next round.


Riley that I was talking about owns a Carolla with 3-4k worth of gear at most.

Big thanks to the judges, organisers and other competitors and anyone else who has been a part of the QLD section of CAASQ throughout the season. As far as i know only Luke and myself are going down to Wagga to compete so hopefully we can get our cars sounding even better. Cant wait to start next season with new challenges and hopefully a few new faces.

Leader Board: (top 3)

Am Street
168 points - Luke Edwards ( Ford Fiesta )
142 points - Ashley Costello ( Honda Civic )
140 points - Riley Shultz ( Toyota Corolla )

Am Show
172 points - Rowan Phillips ( Honda Civic )
142 points - Richard Whitfield ( Toyota Hilux )
110 points - Geoff Northcott ( Ford Falcon )

Pro Street
176 points - Andrew Kelly ( Mazda Astina )
82 points - Ian Kerr ( Honda Accord )
58 points - Andrew Drew ( Mini Cooper )

Pro Show
174 points - Matthew Robinson ( Hyundai Tiburon )
88 points - Kris Frome ( Nissan Skyline )
30 points - Ross Kelly ( Ford Falcon )

What happened to riley's 10 point handicap if he won?

Also, not be picky dan, buts it's 'cavanagh'

Pity I had to leave early... Sounds like it was a good evening...

Was a good way to finish the season, I think I'm making some good steps forward with the revised Install, I've just got to tune it all properly now. A BIG CONGRATS to Riley, 121 is a huge score I'll have to drop in one arvo and have a listen, and another BIG THANKYOU to Winno, for showing me the basics of Judgeing I look forward to possibly getting more opportunities to do it in the future.

And of course a HUGE THANKS to DAN and everyone else who helps to run these events throughout the year!!!

The cost of quipment doesnt mean it's gonna sound great or terrible, for example up until this comp Riley had been running a set of $200-$250 splits and he consistently used to score within 1-2 points of me and my splits cost $1500 retail, and now he has blown my seasons PB of 115 out of the water with a 121 using a set of reasonably priced type X splits and sub.

That 121 was after the handicap ......no not really but i assume that was a tongue in cheek comment?



just to clear things up i actually paid $130 for those thank you very much luke but yeah you raise a very good point

Congrats Riley, looks like an awesome score, not much left to improve, at least in AM now, but looks like a good start for Pro next year.

thanks Louie


by the way does anyone know if they got "Da Hulk" started? because i really cant see it getting put on a tilt tray

was a good close comp, for the last one of the season, cept riley, with that massive score. must be sounding quite nice. good thing hes pro next year

Bard? Is that pay back?

yeah i forgot to mention that the Falcon was looking good....nice addition to the boot lid

Was a good Comp good way to finish off the year. Would be good to see more comps there next yr although i was disappointed with one thing no BBQ.

Just seeing if you would pick it up

I looked at your car when you first got there and didnt even realise but when my mrs was looking about 2 hrs later she saw it and told me and it was pretty impressive...

Please do remember you can't really compare scores from round to round as the judges my choose to mark a little harder through the season and see the overall scores drop although all of you would still be making improvements overall

Was good to catch up with a few of you! Gordo... I still can't believe your driving to Wagga!! Will be some interesting tales to tell about the trip i bet... lol

Might have to get back to competing next season if I get my act together haha

Thanks Dan for making that correction.

@Riley, yeah, 'twas TIC. Although, i think that we should enforce the 10 point handicap, maybe bump you down in the leader board

@Ash, I agree, was a nice venue,but I think it is better to have the events spread out, at least occasionally, because it caters for a much wider range of spectators, and helps to get interest from all area's of brisbane...

Speaking of which, I think whilst we are in the off-season, we need to get some serious thought happening RE: promotion of CAA/MEA SQ in QLD, and the comps, both SQ and SPL, while in my opinion, yesterday was a much nicer turnout than Rocklea, it could be so much bigger.

I don't want these comp's to become a side-show to Autsalon, Spinfest, Jamboree, etc, etc. Whilst it would help with promotion, I don't think it's necessary, and I don't think it should become 'second rate' like that.

A HUGE thanks to Dan, and everybody behind the scenes who make these work on their end, but it's up to everyone else to make it work on the public end. Everyone got PM'd by Dan to get the word out. We shouldn't NEED that sort of encouragement. I know once that flyer got uploaded, I emailed it to a bunch of my mates remotely interested in car audio, albeit none of them showed up to my knowledge, that's the sort of thing we need to do. Spread the word.

I'm not volunteering, I would if i had any skill with photoshop whatsoever though, to make up flyers and such, but I think that if someone could do that for eeach future comp, it would make publicity that much easier.

I say we all do our part, and make sure the next season is better than this year.

Sorry for the rant, but I'm tired and just kept typing

why is there no pics?..........cors

Sounds like a great day out! Congrats to Riley for the win

Im with zion here, wheres the pics!

Yeah I know, I don't tend to use them as an overall picture, but more as a case by case indication along with comments as to were I should be concentrating firstly to improve, because for example if HIGHS are always the lowest mark on the sheet then it's probably the best place to be looking for improvements.

im pretty sure i saw Dan with a camera at one stage

My tip would be to make the events more spectator freindly. I showed up on Saturday afternoon to take a look and I saw 3-4 demo cars thar were open and playing music which was cool, but apart from that there were just locked cars randomly scattered around and you wouldnt know which cars were actually competing.



I know there are security concerns about leaving the cars open so that has to be taken into account but the casual observer who might have been at Autobarn and decided to check the comp out would probably wonder what all the fuss was about. I was actually interested in checking some cars out, but even I only stayed for less than 2 minutes because there was nothing to see. Feel free to disagree...



Congratulations to Riley for the event win and Luke for the season win

As someone who was attending one of these for the first time I would just like to thank everyone for making me feel welcome and not like an outsider which I was. I was lucky enough to come home with first but now I will be up a class so I have some more work to do and improvements to make.

Overall though, I had a great time and I look forward to attending more of these in the future.

As for the photos i saw one fella snap happy but never seen him before so i guess he wasnt from MEA.

Wot time did you turn up Kiwi because there was more than 4 cars that had there boot, hatches and doors open.

Kiwi Im sure if you had stuck around for more than 2 minutes you would have seen more.

But meh

I guess I"m just poopy that I didn't place mainly because of not have a silly fire extinguisher. I suppose it doesn't always come down to cost, but in the instance of a HU I'm pretty sure it would. I'm not exactly sure what the 180 had but I"m sure it had more tuning capabilities than mine. And with all that gear from northfield who's to say he tuned it himself?

Again I'm just bummed I didn't place but I'll be at the next event without a doubt and with improvements made to my system.

Also, I do have to thank all the guys who make these events happen, although I lose haha I still enjoy coming out and getting tips and learning about things. Good work.

Did you get many photos Dan ???

i was going to bring my camera for once, but i forgot. noone ever takes pics, i guess we are all just lazy/forgetful

and yer there were a fair few with atlease there boot open. should of came and had a chat kiwi.

I got a few that Ill post up as soon as I get a chance.

Sam I email you when we have a tnt before the start of next season.

I wasnt having a go at anyone, so apologies if it comes across like that. I guess I've got a short attention span

Rileys system earned every point. Easily the best sounding car I listened to all year. Simple, no bullsh!t design topology, excellent speaker placement, quality installation is all you need.

Whinge whinge whinge. Stop being so bloody pretentious and go up and introduce yourself to a few competitors. Does that take 2 minutes to do?

Whatever Ian



Again good to hear well the car is sounding Riley, Your car was being judged when I was there so wasnt going to hassle you .. your car can only get better with all the experience you'll soon be gaining with Drew

Good event everyone

I must say I was impressed that Ian could remember what my car sounded like 2-months ago

i think that by getting there so late it seemed like a really really short comp lol, anyways it was good to see you all again, maybe next time i can listen to a few more cars

Big congrats to Gordo for making the TermLab work on the big screen

See you all at Wagga!

Loved the venue.
Shame about the snags not turning up.

And I do have to say to Protius and the other new people - your systems are sounding very nice for a first comp. By some admissions the systems hadn't even had a proper tune.
Don't get bummed out. Get determined to come back and do better next time.

Looking forward to seeing you at the next comp.
Plenty of time between now and then to learn about how your system works and tune it.