You are not missing anything.
It was on FEI calendar, EC website (Omnibus page available) and Event Entries.
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When was it added? I mean I know you know the inside scoop so why wasnt it publicly announced?
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I don’t have any inside scoop on this; they were on FEI calendar & Event Entries when I heard about it. I didn’t think to check the EC website at the time, but when I did - it was there.
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Yeah, looks like most people discovered it was open on June 4th or 5th after it closed sadly.
This was posted May 20, less than a month ago: https://eventingnation.com/2021-mars-bromont-cci-will-not-run/?fbclid=IwAR2_9pXcHddDmLqsZCAOBZJ6_1YbXLlaHkJrQfHqxBCNvw6AK5jVzIq5EbY
Also this isn’t anything against the riders at all, and not even really Bromont. Whoever was in charge of soliciting entries and EC are who I think messed up here.
I do have a tendency to think there was purposeful intent at EC. They have spent all of the last 6+ months entirely focused on the Olympics, ignoring other responsibilities to the majority of their “members”, I.e. non-Olympians. (We are actually not voting members but just participants, so our say in all things EC is very small, has to be through a provincial entity).
And that’s not new. EC has been a cluster for just about forever, I have personal and observed experience since the 90s; my Dad still talks about how they repeatedly couldn’t be bothered answering him when he wanted to get an officials license (totally volunteer, very much needed for shows to run) back in the 70s.
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Of course not. But that’s not what happened here. They opened entries - publicly - but just didn’t advertise it widely/at all. Maybe that was on purpose, maybe they were scrambling because they got last-minute approval, I can’t say, and I’m not saying it’s ideal. But if that was the system going forward (obsessively check EventEntries to see what’s up), I’d be okay with it. It’s how I make my Eventing Manager teams, after all 
Anyway, thank you to everyone who helped fill me in. Another odd situation to add to the enormously long list of odd situations that have been packed into the last year and a half. I could have gone my whole life without a pandemic, thank you very much…
Are the results published anywhere? All I can find in my internet search are repeated messages saying Bromont cancelled for 2021.
If you search you can end up on old Event entries…and some things show up there and some dont.
Here they are:
https://evententries.com/#LiveScores3DfttH1soIf0U0hPJqmGJg==
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Thanks. I was just curious due to the size of the disparity. It’s unusual to have two judges consistently far apart, and just not on the occasional test where a judge in one location can see something the other can’t, especially when the difference is as much as 7, 8, even 10%. That’s huge.
It’s pretty hard to come to any conclusion other than this was engineered as an elite, exclusive event because certain riders “needed” it and the organizers couldn’t run a full event because of COVID.
I mean, at least own up to it. I understand that Canadian riders who are vying for the Olympic but didn’t get a chance to run this season because they were doing their part to bend the curve shouldn’t be penalized. The organizers could have put out a statement saying “we are running a limited entry event that respects health orders to ensure that those who stayed home to save lives can qualify for the Olympics.” And if you want to look like you’re an inclusive sport, don’t run the lower divisions for an exclusive group after everyone who entered little bromont at the same level had to cancel 
I will add that I think it’s absurd that some people are debating vaccine efficacy and contesting health policy decisions on this thread. I am beyond relieved that the international event was canceled.
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This.
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No, it doesn’t sit well and it indeed seems shady, I agreed about the problem of lacking transparency days ago, but there is something hugely ironic here.
You guys came to a public forum a couple months ago to eviscerate officials for wanting Bromont to run. You practically said they didn’t care about killing people if they ran. The reality is that they were right, that June did to turn out to be good timing to run an outdoor event. It was actually very predictable–using science–that it would be. (See: “X Axis of Gompertz Curve” and “Seasonality of Respiratory Viruses.”) (Also see my post Apr29 and know I am no brain trust but that wasn’t a lucky guess either.)
Yes, it’s bad that they were not transparent and got all shady about it, but has it occurred to any of you that unfairly hammering on them in public is likely what lead them to be sneaky about it in the first place? They should have told you all to stuff a sock in it, explained the science that lead them to believe they were right about the viability of June, then not cowered. And several of you should at least admit you were wrong 6 weeks ago and maybe cut the officials you beat up some slack.
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Just my opinion - two different issues entirely
Transparency is essential in governing bodies regardless how scared they are of comments on the internet.
Check Kyle Carter’s FB status for thoughts on Canada’s Equestrian Team and governing bodies. Sums it up pretty good.
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An extraordinarily expensive event to run! Who pays?
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Presumably subsidized by a sponsor or owner or business who has a vested interested in seeing a particular rider qualify for the Olympics? And that’s the part that makes no sense about this whole thing.
Events like this are extremely expensive to run, and the only way to offset those costs is by encouraging the maximum numbers of entries possible. So why would Bromont’s Facebook page still be advertising the event as cancelled even while it was taking place? Why wouldn’t event organizers have advertised the change in plans and the new date as loudly and widely as possible? Why would they have only a three-day window in which to enter, instead of leaving it open as long as possible to encourage maximum entries?
It literally defies logic unless there was a reason to keep everything hush hush. I can’t thing of a single reason why they would want the event to run under the radar with only a handful of competitors. Who does it benefit?
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The FEI director advised me they could only have so many entries because of the Health Unit requirements. So if they were to open it up, then there was a chance the entries they wanted to get in wouldn’t be getting the spots. Keeping it quiet meant only those they told would know to enter when entries went open on event entries, and ensure riders got in, with multiple horses as needed.
The lack of transparency is what gets me. Trying to do this “under the radar” to avoid bad press was just the wrong idea, ethically. Own in and make a lottery system for entries (not like there’d be tons of competition for an advanced run…)
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The easy and right solution to this problem would have been to contact those who they want to make sure get in and say ‘we are opening entries on this day at this time, make sure you get in there and enter as soon as it opens’, then advertise it as open, stating there are limited entries allowed and let the entries happen ,first come first served.
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Could they not have designated the riders they needed to see for Tokyo (a handful) and then all the remaining slots could have been truly open?
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the handful was probably one
Colleen was already qualified and she chose not to run XC.
only one of the others who rode at Bromont is/was in contention for Tokyo.
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