Schedules Old Geezer's

[spbyrum]

At what age does one become a Geezer?  
 
We've mentioned modifying the scoring program to allow the Geezers to
also compete for regular award, but no one has said HOW to modify it.
The only things I can think of are either an extra class or duplicate
pilots within each class.  Either way involves extra work for the
scorer.  An extra class with only center maneuvers may be the best
option as it would isolate the Geezer scores.
 
We did the reverse of this concept in our Spring SPA contest.  We
tabulated overall classes by entering each pilot's score in his regular
class, then again in the overall class.  All understood that it was an
experiment and that for SPA it would not be possible for all pilots to
fly in front of the same judges each round.  Even taking that into
account, we had pilots fly rounds on Sunday they would not ordinarily
have flown because the needed the score for the overall.  It added an
element of fun not present before.
 
If no one has proved the Geezer experiment a failure by my turn next
summer, we'll have Geezer Award for the Fourth of July.
 
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From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]
On Behalf Of Tony Stillman
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 4:35 PM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: Schedules Old Geezer's
 
My home club hosted our NSRCA Dist 3 champs this year.  We elected to
add trophies for classes that had "senior" pilots.  This year, we only
had two, Ron Van Putte in Masters and Nat Penton in FAI.  Both received
awards.  
 
It is simple to do, and I hope that other contests will follow suit.  If
you do the "Picture" awards as most clubs do now, it only costs a few
bucks for the extra plaques.
 
Tony Stillman
Radio South
3702 N. Pace Blvd.
Pensacola, FL 32505
1-800-962-7802
www.radiosouthrc.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: BUDDYonRC at aol.com 
To: discussion at nsrca.org 
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: Schedules Old Geezer's
 
Nope also 
I know several old geezers who may attend the Nat's but won't. They are
competitors but when they fly against the likes of Chip, Troy, Jim,
Andrew and the rest of the top seeded pilots they opt-out. knowing full
well that they cannot compete with the top pilots in their class.
This would not be another class just another set of awards to entice
older guys to participate  
Nat's participation has been dropping for the last few years and if
something as simple as this gives more of the senior members a reason to
attend then why not try it?
Yes, Ron I am an Old Geezer too and will attend the Nat's every year as
long as I am physically and financially able as I have for the past
eight years but there are some out there that won't subject themselves
to the cost of going to an event when they have no chance of winning,
Nothing ventured nothing gained! 
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