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Re: Wdfw drawing fiasco explanation
« Reply #30 on: June 22, 2018, 11:11:26 AM »
They should do moose, mountain goat, and sheep on one day, and deer and elk another day.

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Re: Wdfw drawing fiasco explanation
« Reply #31 on: June 22, 2018, 11:14:29 AM »
It was a bit frustrating yesterday waiting and reading about all the active licenses and stuff but it actually seemed to go somewhat smooth. I woulda been a lot happier if I actually drew something.  :chuckle:

Also just because past years they have been early shouldn’t make them be held accountable to being early. The regs still say late June.  :twocents:

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Re: Wdfw drawing fiasco explanation
« Reply #32 on: June 22, 2018, 11:16:23 AM »
That is a sad excuse, and lack of taking ownership for a failure. Instead of all the excuses and a deferral an apology would probably be the correct course of action.
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Re: Wdfw drawing fiasco explanation
« Reply #33 on: June 22, 2018, 11:18:57 AM »
They should do moose, mountain goat, and sheep on one day, and deer and elk another day.
That was my first comment to her about what could be done different, I think it would free up some of the traffic trying to log on?
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Re: Wdfw drawing fiasco explanation
« Reply #34 on: June 22, 2018, 11:19:05 AM »
Yeah I'm not saying they always need to be that early, just that it has become the expectation in everyone's minds. Then a message they put out to inform us of when the draw was happening, which was great, but it led us to believe all results would be available EARLY ON THE 21st. 4:40 PM isn't early.

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Re: Wdfw drawing fiasco explanation
« Reply #35 on: June 22, 2018, 11:26:46 AM »
It will be a mess no matter what they do  :(
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Re: Wdfw drawing fiasco explanation
« Reply #36 on: June 22, 2018, 11:27:52 AM »
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Re: Wdfw drawing fiasco explanation
« Reply #37 on: June 22, 2018, 11:59:48 AM »
They should do moose, mountain goat, and sheep on one day, and deer and elk another day.
That was my first comment to her about what could be done different, I think it would free up some of the traffic trying to log on?
Not a bad idea.  Though in terms of people being able to plan out their hunts it could cause issues.  They draw sheep, make certain plans for dates to lock in reservations, etc, then draw quality elk 2days, a week, month later down the road and have to reschedule or shuffle things to account for it.

I like the idea of maybe shutting everything down overnight.  Get everything posted and bring it back online.  At the very least they should be contacting the big high demand hunting draw states to see how they get it done.  I also think no email in future saying when draws will be done or posted, unless they get a system like WY to handle the hit, or they shut down a section of the site completely until results are all in.

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Re: Wdfw drawing fiasco explanation
« Reply #38 on: June 22, 2018, 12:11:50 PM »
The draw was a complete and utter fiasco and disaster.  Should be a redraw  ( message sent from losers lounge......  :) )

It sounds like they were serious about their wait 2 hour request which boggles my mind.  How naive can they be?  They need to bring the witnesses in ahead of time for strategy discussion to catch some of their silly ideas.

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Re: Wdfw drawing fiasco explanation
« Reply #39 on: June 22, 2018, 12:57:10 PM »
The state sent an email to everyone and pretty much said please don’t slam our website with views because it causes problems. We slammed the website. It caused problems.  Get over it. It’s over and done. And done on the day they said it would be done.
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Re: Wdfw drawing fiasco explanation
« Reply #40 on: June 22, 2018, 12:59:58 PM »
Out of the 8 states I put in for every year Washington has the most problems with the draw by far. I don’t put in for CA, or  OR.
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Re: Wdfw drawing fiasco explanation
« Reply #41 on: June 22, 2018, 01:00:24 PM »
The state sent an email to everyone and pretty much said please don’t slam our website with views because it causes problems. We slammed the website. It caused problems.  Get over it. It’s over and done. And done on the day they said it would be done.
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Re: Wdfw drawing fiasco explanation
« Reply #42 on: June 22, 2018, 01:02:27 PM »
I really don't see a problem.  Tens of thousands of people chose to not respect the request to leave the site alone and we still got it on the right day
Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with too many facts.

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Re: Wdfw drawing fiasco explanation
« Reply #43 on: June 22, 2018, 01:05:54 PM »
That is a sad excuse, and lack of taking ownership for a failure. Instead of all the excuses and a deferral an apology would probably be the correct course of action.
what was the failure?  Draw was completed and results posted on the day they said they would be  :dunno:

Not sending out emails after specifically stating that's how we will know when it's done, that's a failure.

Other than that, it all worked out in the end.

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Re: Wdfw drawing fiasco explanation
« Reply #44 on: June 22, 2018, 01:07:11 PM »
Out of the 8 states I put in for every year Washington has the most problems with the draw by far. I don’t put in for CA, or  OR.
what problems occurred?  I've still yet to see an answer to that question.  Draw was completed and results posted the day they said it would be and within a month!  I apply for 10 western states and WY is the only one that does it faster but they also break it into 3 separate draws so technically it takes them 5 months  :dunno:
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