2008 Windshield Repair Olympics

[screenman]

Absolutely fantastic, you are an inspiration to many of us on here and I for one certainly respect your input to our forum, congratulations and respect to you.

[Dave M]

Brian,
Congratulations for a job well done! Could you explain to us what, if any, were the differences between the first round and the second with just you and Matt. Also, what type of breaks did you have to repair?
Again, great job!

[SGT]

Thanks guys for the the kind feed back. I can't speak for Matt as I did not watch what he did in his prelim heat and was to focused on my vehicleto watch his final. For me, my customer interaction was the same but the difference was in the repair quality. I should have kept working to a better repair outcome as I still had approx 20 min remaining. The judges determined his repair quality was better.

I do not know what breaks Matt had but the judges tried to the best of there ability to create fair breaks for all. In my prelim I had a Bullseye in a Star (Combination). In my final I had to two connected chips. One was a Bullseye(top) and Bullseye in Star(bottom).

[Dave M]

Brian,
Tough repair for the second prelim! You'll have to forgive my questions but not knowing the specifics on the WRO, just want to see how it was handled, in your opinion. Was there a set time limit to finish the repair, because you mentioned having 20 minutes remaining after you finished. Were both breaks dry or did your dryout process have to be used?
I need to clarify my question on the different prelims. Was the first prelim with all the contestants exactly the same as the second prelim with just the 2 finalists?

[SGT]

Dave,

It is my pleasure to answer your questions. It may be the difference of you or someone else competing or not competing. I think we need more independants competing. The first prelim is 45 min and up to you to determine what you may or may not be dealing with break wise. They do not provide any details such as moisture or hydrophobic coating. Expect to face whatever you may deal with in the real world. In the final they give you one hour to complete your repair. Matt, finished a few minutes before me and I was feeling the pressure for sure so I wrapped it up as soon as I could. I ended with approx. 20 valuble min to work with on the table. Again you must figure out what you are dealing with.

What the judges do to one car they do to all cars to make it fair as possible.

[Matt Anderson]

Hello all,

I just wanted to drop in to the board and say hello. As a rule I do not read this very much, but I did stumble onto it last year. I thought I would use this venue to say hello and congrats to Brian and Brent.

Brian did a great job in the Olympics and represented Delta very well.

Brent, it was very nice to meet you at the show. I am glad we had a chance to talk.

Thank you, Brian for you kind words in earlier posts.

I would also like to say that ALL of the repair technicians did VERY high quality repairs.

As for the competition itself, it was very challenging. After making the finals I was sure that I would need to not only produce a very high quality repair, but I would need to be efficient with my time. Tie scores are broken by time and Brian had shown he could post a perfect score. I knew that Brian would produce a great repair, so I tried to be a little quicker. I figured if he hit a perfect score I sure did not want to loose do to a time tie breaker.

Of course then when I was done I had to sweat out the judging and wonder if I had spent enough time to get the quality needed. As it turned out I did score 150 (max points). Brian could not have dropped many points if any. His repair looked very good.

Note:

The final this year did not involve any moisture in the chips. The break was a rather nasty double impact combination. I felt that both of us had comparable type, size and severity of damage.

Since I consider myself “guest” on this board, I will not be on much. But if I can answer any questions in the next day or so I would be happy to. Post them and I will try to answer.

[SGT]

Hey Matt,

Thanks for dropping in and your kind words as well. Stick around here as there is always room for another professional. I will keep in touch.

[Brent Deines]

I'm glad I got a chance to meet you as well Matt and I'm with Brian, any tips, tricks, or feedback from professionals such as yourself are always welcome on the windshield repair forum. At the risk of sounding like I am giving a plug to a competitor, I have to say that everyone I met from NOVUS, and all the NOVUS franchisees I met at the NACE show were very professional and very gracious. It's extremely gratifying to see our industry's top professionals getting along so well. When fierce competitors can talk, laugh, and share ideas we are on the right track.

One thing that was very clear after the competition was that you, Brian, and the rest of the competitors are all very good windshield repair technicians. There were a variety of different systems used and all the repairs I saw looked pretty darn good, especially considering the pressure you guys were under. Although I do believe there are some substantial differences that make some systems work better than others, it was very clear that in the hands of a skilled technician all of the systems used in the Windshield Repair Olympics worked quite well.

I hope to see you again next year if not before, and if you ever get out to Eugene I hope you will look me up. I'll let you buy me lunch or something.

[maxryde]

First I want to say congrats on your win Matt.
I am also excited that you will? continue to be a participant here on the DK Forum.
Anyway it goes thanks for your contribution!!

Hello all,

I just wanted to drop in to the board and say hello. As a rule I do not read this very much, but I did stumble onto it last year. I thought I would use this venue to say hello and congrats to Brian and Brent.

Brian did a great job in the Olympics and represented Delta very well.

Brent, it was very nice to meet you at the show. I am glad we had a chance to talk.

Thank you, Brian for you kind words in earlier posts.

I would also like to say that ALL of the repair technicians did VERY high quality repairs.

As for the competition itself, it was very challenging. After making the finals I was sure that I would need to not only produce a very high quality repair, but I would need to be efficient with my time. Tie scores are broken by time and Brian had shown he could post a perfect score. I knew that Brian would produce a great repair, so I tried to be a little quicker. I figured if he hit a perfect score I sure did not want to loose do to a time tie breaker.

Of course then when I was done I had to sweat out the judging and wonder if I had spent enough time to get the quality needed. As it turned out I did score 150 (max points). Brian could not have dropped many points if any. His repair looked very good.

Note:

The final this year did not involve any moisture in the chips. The break was a rather nasty double impact combination. I felt that both of us had comparable type, size and severity of damage.

Since I consider myself “guest” on this board, I will not be on much. But if I can answer any questions in the next day or so I would be happy to. Post them and I will try to answer.

[Roo]

Congratulations Brian!