Scoring formula/ and observations

[Ron Van Putte]

On Jul 31, 2005, at 1:52 PM, BUDDYonRC at aol.com wrote:

> I  would like to share a few points that I think are important that 
> seems to be overlooked. From my experience at many local contests and 
> observations at the past eight Nat's those who shouldn't be in the 
> judges chair have had a significant impact on deciding the order of 
> finish, unfortunately many inexperienced judges award higher scores 
> for smoothness and gracefulness (impression judges) and overlook 
> obvious downgrades.
> Those effected the most by this fact at the Nat's is the group flying 
> Advanced, in most contests FAI pilots judge the Masters class, Masters 
> pilots judge FAI, Advanced pilots judge Intermediate and Advanced is 
> predominately judged by Intermediate pilots, many who have little 
> judging experience. This was the case at the Nat's this year. In the 
> prelims. for FAI and Masters only FAI and Masters judges were used to 
> judge each other, Likewise only Advanced pilots were used to judge 
> Intermediate. In Advanced, the first two days the majority of judges 
> were intermediate pilots, some who had little experience and on the 
> third day all judges were Masters pilots which may explain and point 
> out why the order of finish changed so much each day.

Excuse me for editing Buddy's last e-mail, but I extracted from his 
e-mail to make the point I want to make.

Buddy is correct.  When possible. F3A pilots judge Master.  Master 
pilots judge F3A AND Advanced, Advanced pilots judge Intermediate and 
selected Intermediate pilots judge Advanced.  The problem comes when 
there aren't enough Master pilots to judge both F3A and Advanced.  
Suppose you've got 110 contestants with a 25/50/25/10 or a 30/50/20/10 
F3A/Master/Advanced/Intermediate split.  Things are rosy:  There's just 
enough Master pilots to cover F3A and Advanced.  More often there 
aren't enough Master pilots to cover both.  You must use the Master 
pilots to cover F3A, because you generally wouldn't want an 
Intermediate pilot judging F3A.  Then you're forced to augment the 
available Master pilots with Intermediate pilots to fill the judging 
matrix.  That's why it's important to fill in the information on the 
Nats entry form, indicating the ability to judge higher classes.  The 
only other alternative is for Master pilots to volunteer for extra 
judging duty.

Ron Van Putte
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