Now who is arguing for political correctness? Thanks for your interest, anyway.
Remember that the format is not precision. Everybody who caught the air just flies past the target time and lands within the thirty seconds to collect their ten points. If somebody landed early while somebody else was still flying, He lost the round. That should have a price, as you correctly pointed out, to be fair to everybody else. The situation where everybody hits sink and has to scratch for that last minute before the max is one of the more exciting elements of the format and has validity as a competitive format since it is not what happens in good air that separates the good pilots from the rest, it is who does the best job with the air they have. Think about it. Tim -----Original Message----- From: tony estep [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 8:14 AM To: Soaring Subject: Re: [RCSE] Contest format ----- Original Message ---- From: Tim Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ...in a "real" contest, 9 points or less out of ten, which corresponds to 900 or less out of 1000, is a low score. ======================== So what do you do when you have a typical OVSS field where 4 out of the 7 guys come within a couple of seconds of the max? One has 10:00, one has 10:01, one has 9:58, one has 9:57. You give them 10, 9, 8, 7 respectively? The same as if they scored 10, 9, 8, and 7 minutes? I don't think so.
