Thanks ........

[Atwood, Mark]

I used the "dual" contest approach once at our district champs a few years back...we had 16 or 18 masters pilots and only 25 total pilots.  We created 2 groups and ran them as seperate classes.  After 4 rounds we took the top 3 in each and had a 3 round finals.

It worked....ok.  The main thing it provided was judges.  I was able to use one set of Masters pilots to judge the other for the pre-lims without forcing the remaining 8 Adv/Int guys to sit through 3 hour rounds 6 times in a row.

The end result was probably a good ranking...but many felt left out that they only flew 4 rounds.

We now have a larger turnout and better distribution...and I follow Ron's other suggestion...having the line continue from line A directly to Line B to fly.  I.e. they fly 2 rounds back to back.  It's MUCH more efficient and never has one line idle waiting for the other to finish.

-Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Glaze [mailto:billglaze at triad.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 2:54 PM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: Thanks ........


Ron:
I know that you "invented" this for the Nats, ('97? '98?) and it has 
worked so well that it's become S.O.P.  But, do you know of it being 
used at any local contests?  Purely curious; I know it would work if 
other factors of necessity were present.  Bill Glaze

Ron Van Putte wrote:

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> On Jan 26, 2004, at 9:42 AM, John Ferrell wrote:
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>> When half of 30 entries are masters, keeping 2 lines going can be a
>> challenge.
>
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> I agree, BUT there is a way to even out the flight lines.  If you 
> split the lines as well as possible, with two classes on one line and 
> the other two on the second line, you can have the pilots move to the 
> end of the other line after they finish the first round (with proper 
> rotation of pilots within the classes).  When the second round is 
> complete, both lines should have finished at about the same time.  Of 
> course there's some judging issues, but an alert CD can handle the 
> judge management.
>
> Ron Van Putte
>
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