Nats Judging Rebate-keep their best SCORE!

[Bob Pastorello]

As a "non Nats" guy at the present - a thought - since a Rules cycle submittal is pending, I think that ANY considerations about "penalties" for not judging had BETTER BE BUILT INTO AMA rules.
The AMA Sanctions a national event, and I would bet dollars to donuts that a subsequent protest for zeroed rounds would WIN - due to the fact that there is NO AMA provision in the rules to cover the situations you all are describing.

I'm not taking sides, nor pointing fingers/blame.

Simply suggesting that NOW is the time to try and get a rule change to support the propositions of "enforcement".  Could be important.

Bob Pastorello
www.rcaerobats.net
rcaerobob at cox.net
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron Van Putte 
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  Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 10:14 AM
  Subject: Re: Nats Judging Rebate-keep their best SCORE!



  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.

    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?

    Ron Van Putte

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