District Championships - tuning.

[Henderson,Eric]

It works with each district having it's own championship design and method. There was a time when not all districts had one. We have progressed from that point in time. It also had to be a flexible formula because of District sizes and membership distribution geographically.

I said it works. Of course that is until a quirk appears for which we did not anticipate or for which did not write a rule.

It's only toy aeroplanes, but the competition aspect does bring out some of our less desirable human traits. A hint of the unfair can raise the bile and get the gourd of the most mild and placid. 

One issue that I had to deal with was the including of a Canadian contest in a  USA NSRCA district championship - very tricky - we had encouraged Canada to adopt the US Masters and Advanced schedules, (They already had FAI), to promote cross-border competing. That one was resolved by the ruling that only AMA sanctioned contests counted. (It already is that way in the USA but we needed to apply it to resolve Canadian contests inclusion objections)

As regards joining "late" to secure a championship. It is clear that we want to find as many ways as possible to get folks to join the NSRCA. In the case below it worked, but at what price. It could clearly hurt existing members and even cause resignations etc. I would say that it needs clarification or de-quirking for next year!

My internal personal justice system thinks that only contests after you join should count. But then you have to define when does a person actually join and how do they prove it.... Sending in your application ten minutes before a district Championship might be cutting it a bit fine :-)

Regards,

Eric.


-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org
[mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Wayne Galligan
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 11:46 AM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: NSRCA WEBSITE


Resending this... may not have gone through first time.

Speaking of reading the NSRCA list.   Is the format for the district
championship going to be standardized anytime soon?  I came to realize the
district championship format posted there is just a guideline that Tony S.
proposed.  It has created a little stir in my class in D6 mainly because of
me procrastinating my enrollment till after the first two contest. Wouldnt
you know I won those two contests.  I though the proposed standards where
what we where using and therefore my mistake.  I have come to find out that
the districts are setting the guidelines.  Should we not have a standard
format across the board for the championship?  I liked the proposal that
Tony suggests.

Wayne Galligan
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Del Rykert
  To: discussion at nsrca.org
  Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 12:20 PM
  Subject: Re: NSRCA Formal Announcement


  But no all new joiners and even some don't read this list and should still
have that info as part of joining the organization. Those that are left out
tend to develop a nasty taste in their mouth for being ignored or not part
of the elite. Many social organizations I have been associated with in my
life have done this and has always come back to bite them in the butt.

       Del K. Rykert
       AMA - 8928
       NSRCA - 473
       Kb2joi - General


=====================================
# To be removed from this list, send a message to 
# discussion-request at nsrca.org
# and put leave discussion on the first line of the body.
#

==================# To be removed from this list, send a message to 
# discussion-request at nsrca.org
# and put leave discussion on the first line of the body.
#