Hey Team!
I may have missed the opening thread to this topic, but Chuck must be
chiming in on what we all appreciate about Gordy! What a nice thing to do
for a fellow pilot! Thanks Chuck!
I get really tired of the 'personal bashing' that goes on over RCSE. I was
thinking of unsubscribing.
Thats pretty good, However, I think that 2 rounds of t-6 should be tossed in
the mix.
That way Gordy can demonstrate his calculating prowess while flying.. the mark
of a true champion
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Jack Strother
Granger, IN
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-Original Message-
From: Chuck Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:47 AM
To: Lex Mierop
Cc:
This past November, I was contest director for a monthly contest of the
Soaring League of North Texas at which I tried out a new format for
Man-on-Man competition. It was well received. The format addresses a few of
my pet peeves about soaring contests. I offer this description in the hopes
that
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Some of the goofy crap about lines and winches, making more 'challenging'
contests, etc, finally lead to where they usually do...about someone just
wanting to let everyone know that they 'beat' Gordy.
While I was 'working' today at the Four Seasons Resort beach in Puerto
Vallarta, I spied
At 02:40 PM 1/9/2008, Tim Bennett wrote:
The pace of the contest is improved because once there is only one in the
air, there is no value in continuing to fly so the winner lands and the next
group can fly. No burying the group while everyone waits. Timers are
required to communicate about the
At 06:29 PM 1/9/2008, you wrote:
Interesting twist on seeded MoM. But one of the things I always
enjoyed in this contest format was getting a good burial in a contest. Jim
This is the thing I hate most about MOM. I never liked the idea of
shafting a fellow competitor. It always seemed to
Shafting the other fellow competitors by completing the task
time? Unethical? ;-)
I see it as maximizing my available flying time during a contest
event, and playing by the rules of the contest attempting to maximize my score.
At 07:16 PM 1/9/2008, Chuck Anderson wrote:
I never liked the
No one has ever beat me. But boy have I spent many years in this hobby beating
myself. I once said to a fellow group of fliers that I can beat JW on any given
day, and so can they. They all laughed. But, how many contests have you flown 3
near-perfect rounds and then screwed the pooch on the
(Original Message):
...I don't like...normalizing the scores. The idea of giving one man 1000
points for a
flight while giving another flier half as many points for flying
twice as long in a different group is morally wrongIn seeded MOM,
normalizing isn't needed. That's
already done by
Jim Bacus wrote:
Shafting the other fellow competitors by completing the task
time? Unethical? ;-)
I see it as maximizing my available flying time during a contest
event, and playing by the rules of the contest attempting to
maximize my score.
Jim makes a valid point while at the same
Absolutely... I agree with Jim.
Throwing dirt their way or being buried is part of the sport.
What if you didn't have man on man, the results would be the same
anyway. I'm not sure I understand why you would bring the pilots down
early. You actually compress the groups scores.
James V. Bacus
Well Tim, you just lost me with your last comments. I guess the home town
crowd has gotten soft in Texas (was raised in Arlington). Here in OVSS land you
live and die to get the low save, downwind escape, faint read that no one else
gets. We are flying 6 to 7 rounds a day of 10-13 minute
Tim,
I appreciate all the thought you've put into the format. I'd side with Jim,
however, on flying out the time. If someone puts the hurt on me I'm not mad
at that person. I'm mad at myself for not hooking into that air. I don't
think sportsmanship really comes into play.
I've had the hurt
Original message:
Your heart is in the right place for club events, but please do not do this
at TNT...
===
Marc is right on. At a real contest, this sort of thing is fundamentally
unfair. If everybody launches into the same air and one guy finds the air and
gets max, while
Maybe we should just do politically correct soaring contests and not keep
score, like many kids sports programs these days. We wouldn't want to hurt
any ones feelings, now would we?
On Jan 9, 2008 10:53 PM, tony estep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Original message:
Your heart is in the right
There is some validity to your point about penalizing the 6 except that in a
real contest, 9 points or less out of ten, which corresponds to 900 or
less out of 1000, is a low score. Once the issue is decided lets start the
next flight group.
-Original Message-
From: tony estep
Why don't we just award everybody a first place sticker and a cool ride in the
special bus just for entering the joy luck club contest.
sj
- Original Message -
From: Tim Bennettmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: soaring@airage.commailto:soaring@airage.com
Sent: Wednesday, January
Tim,
Thanks for bringing some new ideas concepts to our beloved sport. I
don't agree with everything you said, but you presented your case well.
Open dialog without egos and emotion based responses will do us all well.
Jon Stone
PS. Yeah, I know egos and emotion based responses are par
Joe,
What a great idea :-) That's right up their with my My child was prisoner of
the month Bumper Sticker...
Craig
Joe Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Why dont we just award
everybody a first place sticker and a cool ride in the special bus just for
entering the joy luck
No need to even fly at the contest. Let's play paper/ scissors/ rock,
determine a winner, and let the drinking begin. Or no matter what
the task target time is, we'll just all agree to fly 3's. Heck, even
Gordy can make 3... off of a pop off.
Just jumping in and pokin some fun.
Screw that,
I have a friend who once bet a guy he could run a mile in four minutes.
Thinking himself no fool, the guy took the bet and made a date to meet at
the high school track the next morning. Once on the track the guy said
Ready, Go. and started the watch. My friend stood there looking at him.
The guy
I'd pay to see Daryl try and run a mile!!
Sorry, D ... couldn't resist.
Mark
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On Jan 9, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Tim Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a friend who once bet a guy he could run a mile in four
minutes.
Thinking himself no fool, the guy took the bet and made a
Marc,
Thanks for the comments. In answer to your questions, we have only tried this
once, but we have been doing something similar for years for class A sailplanes
using upstarts with scoring on a four point scale. We use head-to-head results
rather than landings for tie breaking and rarely
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