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 have to go beyond that.
In really good weather, this contest format becomes a landing contest at the top just like any TD contest. The difference is that there is more emphasis on consistent flying than on times less than max. The course granularity of the scoring separates the competitors pretty quickly so you end up with a group with all tens and the rest pretty spread out. The landings decide the issue for those with the tens and any other ties as well. The one time we did it one guy had all tens and there were only two other ties. We didn't get in very many rounds, though. > -----Original Message----- > From: Marc Gellart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 3:11 PM > To: Tim Bennett > Subject: Re: [RCSE] Contest Format > > > Tim, > Good idea, and you had the perfect conditions for this format of > MOM, but would this have worked so well if the conditions were > near perfect? > > I realize that you can break ties and such, but in the summer up > here, even doing seeded MOM in our normal fashion, after six to > eight rounds we will have the top five in a twenty point spread > sometimes. I would think that this would get so tight that you > would have a knot at the top so close that it might not break. > Have you done it when it was nmicer or was this your first time out? > > Marc > 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
