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 time to beat. Scoring is second grade arithmetic; could not be simpler or quicker. No waiting around to figure the seeding.
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. Getting away on a good group of pilots and getting a max when the others couldn't make it happen. It keeps some strategy in the game keeping an eye on other good pilots and not letting them "break away" on the pack.
Flying it out with all eyes upon you, and hitting that landing with everyone watching is a LOT of fun.
Jim Downers Grove, IL Member of the Chicago SOAR club, and Team JR AMA 592537 LSF 7560 Level IV R/C Soaring blog at www.jimbacus.net RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
