Nats Judging Rebate-keep their best SCORE!

[Ron Van Putte]

On Jul 27, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Gray E Fowler wrote:

> Money does not matter, scores do. In the past, was it not work or lose 
> your best round? THAT keeps people on their toes.

That's done now.

> I also heard that  some people coming to FAI and Masters did not 
> submit TWO frequencies, creating matrix hassles. Same here- assign the 
> matrix to make sense and if the person does not have his alternate 
> frequency as was requested on the NATS entry form then he simply does 
> not fly that round. The CD needs relief, and the contestants need the 
> MOST fair matrix that can be had.

No argument here.

Ron Van Putte


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> Last week at the Nats, I had a talk with Nats event director, Dave
>  Guerin about judging no-shows.  On the very first morning, Dave had at
>  least three no-shows (F3A pilots who were supposed to judge the Master
>  class).  You can imagine the frustration of trying to reschedule 
> pilots
>  to cover for them, not to mention the delay in getting the events
>  started.  This was not an isolated case.  It happened over and over
>  during the week.  Some just forgot when they were supposed to judge.  
>  There were even some who were scheduled to judge on the third day, who
>  decided to leave after two days and didn't tell anyone.
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>  We discussed having a "$50 judging rebate".  It would work like this: 
>  
>  In addition to the normal entry fees, $50 would be collected.  If a
>  pilot showed up to perform his scheduled judging session, he'd get a
>  $50 rebate.  If a pilot didn't show up to perform his scheduled 
> judging
>  session, the replacement judge would get the $50.  BTW, the normal
>  stipend for pilots who perform extra judging sessions is $30.  
>  Comments?
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>  Ron Van Putte
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