Music City Cup - TN State USPSA Match

09/20/2021

Once again, thank you on behalf of the club membership and myself for your participation of our 1st USPSA Level 2 event. While it was a grueling 9 days total, it was one of the most rewarding events to bring together club members and others from other parts of the state and other surrounding states. 4 days getting props organized, painted, built / 1 day for hardcover for one person / 2 days building stages / 2 days for staff and competitors shooting. Thank you for this! There were many people to thank for the help in getting the match started and completed with all the tasks needed.

Friday began with some issues with my mistakes on the scoring software not being correct with what was on the stage. I did not double check that morning as part of my last part on the checklist. We got things corrected when it was noticed and you will see them listed as an entry on Practiscore results for the match. We did have some reshoots on this day. These reshoots were valid and authorized by the Match Director in accordance with the USPSA Rulebook.

Stage 3 listed on the matchbook was thrown out due to competitive equity. After speaking with Troy (DNROI) and the Range Master (Robert Standley), the stage was tossed. It wasn't because of pass throughs from a target into the barrel which did strike the sw***er target. These hits could have been identified due to placement of the hit and the height of the barrel. That was not the concern. The concern was that if the steel was down which activated the sw***er and then the left side targets were engaged, there was a pass through that we would not be able to identify due to plastic on the targets. The stage would have been a perfect stage to shoot if that target placement was left about 2.5 feet. I did not see this initially. This is MY FAULT and MY FAULT only. I am sorry for this oversight. I would have rather had this stage tossed then have the potential controversy that it would have caused in the aftermath.

Saturday began with an imminent desire to move through the stages quickly and efficiently to miss the forecasted downpour of rain predicted for the latter part of the afternoon. The last thing we wanted was to inhibit the Saturday shooters from getting the best possible scoring due to weather related delays or issues.

Music City Cup - 2021 TN State Match Champions
USPSA Rulebook requires 5 competitors in a division to be recognized. We recognized all divisions with 3 or more.

PCC - Geoff Webb (HOA Overall)
Carry Optics - Andy Walker (Trophy was mailed today)
Production - Austin Hull
Limited - Kelly Cobean
Open - Matt Emm (we need to fulfil our trophy requirement)

Please email me at [email protected] with any positive or negative feedback to help make next year's event better. If you send me an email about turning off the rain, I will send you a response email with a picture...….LOL

Truly, Thank you for attending. It was a honor that you picked our event competing with the other 11 events throughout the month.

09/15/2021

Headed to the range to begin setup of stages 1 thru 7 today.......

In the rain

09/14/2021

Zero doubts in my mind

09/14/2021

Thank you for your commitment in our 1st USPSA Level 2 event this September 17th or 18th depending on your sign up. We are honored in having you here spending the day with other like minded and good individuals. The setup crew will be on the range this Wednesday (setting up Stages 1 through 7) and Thursday (setting up Stages 8 through 10). We hope you enjoy the stages as much as we anticipate you will.

We will have an exciting 10 stages for your enjoyment. 261 rounds minimum is required. This is a lost brass match. We will run final update to the competitors' classification on Wednesday evening.

The hard work by some Music City Tactical Shooters members needs to be recognized that built an additional 26 target stands, 27 wall sections, painted all fault lines/wall sections, cutting 309 total target sticks and painted 106 total target stands for this event.

Match Book:

09/13/2021

Long day. Many thanks to Beth for helping and Alex for going to Walmart twice for paint.

09/05/2021

The Music City Cup is the most widely known match in TN. It started out named for an IDPA match. Within the short amount of time hosting the event, it was well recognized as the most technical match in TN. While our club (Music City Tactical Shooters) is not new to sanctioned events, this will be ou...

08/30/2021

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Truly humbled!

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08/30/2021

Music City Cup - 2021 TN State Match presented by Music City Tactical Shooters

This event will consist of 10 stages with a minimum round count of 262 rounds. The stages will test your accuracy and speed.
To register for the event: https://practiscore.com/music-city-cup-2021/register

Registration ends September 3rd so that we can account for food and trophies.

U.S. Practical Shooting Assn. (USPSA)

08/29/2021

We are excited to announce that Brian Conley from Hunters HD Gold has given us at Music City Tactical Shooters the opportunity to showcase their product on our prize table for the Music City Cup - 2021 TN State Match on September 17th and 18th, 2021. Many of our members utilize the product and cannot speak more highly of the design and clarity the Hunter HD product is.

Thank you for believing in our event and helping out the cause. Wished you could be there to partake in the event.

08/26/2021

We are going to alter the current posted schedule a little.

This weekend is USPSA will remain.

September
(1st weekend) Speed Steel will be a Practical match utilizing some of the Area 5 stages.
(2nd weekend) USPSA will be a Practical Match to get some extra practice.
(3rd weekend) will remain the Music City Cup - 2021 TN State Match.
(4th weekend) will be a Speed Steel Match.

Changes to the website and PractiScore will take place tonight.

Best news of the week: thanks to the help from some members and a non-member, we are done with all of the props. It took a total of 4 days.

Built 26 new stands and painted all of the existing target stands.
Moved all of the metal wall sections to Bay 4 and 5.
Cut/ripped enough material to make 27 new walls including ported ones and half walls. Painting and Netting was finished up today.
Painted all of the fault lines and placed them in barrels on each of the pistol bays.
Cut/ripped material for 5 new safe areas.
Cut/ripped 300 plus target sticks.