Thanks ........

[Bill Glaze]

Mark: Thanks much.  just what I was looking for............Bill Glaze

Atwood, Mark wrote:

>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.
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>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.
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>The end result was probably a good ranking...but many felt left out that they only flew 4 rounds.
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>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.
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>-Mark
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>-----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 ........
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>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
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>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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>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Del K. Rykert" <drykert at rochester.rr.com>
>>>To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>>>Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 6:53 AM
>>>Subject: Thanks ........
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>>>>    .............  For the answers to my 6 round question.
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