Thanks ........

[John Ferrell]

I believe VonLinswe (sp?) suggested something like having the class self
judge, excuse the current flier and the next up from the panel. It was not
well received...
John Ferrell
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Atwood, Mark" <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 1:59 PM
Subject: RE: Thanks ........


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


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