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 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [RCSE] Contest format
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 6 out of 7 guys mess up and land early, they have to earn low scores, in fairness to everybody in the contest. The air was there and they blew their shot. Setting up some artificial scheme to pardon their failure is better policy for club contests than for the real thing -- sort of like allowing free popoffs.
