Rules Changes----Advancement

[Joe Lachowski]

How about something like these as the only mandatory requirements to move 
up:

1. Winning the District Championship twice in the same class on the local 
level
2.  Winning 10 local level contests in the same class(takes care of 
non-NSRCA members)
3.  Placing in the money twice at the Nationals (usually top 5 to 7)
4.  National Champion of a Class.

These exclude Masters of course since it is a destination class.

The first two might go hand in hand. These are easy to monitor and everyone 
knows who you are because it is public knowledge.

The way it seems now is that most people typically move up after either 
winning a district championship or doing well at the Nats anyway.

A National  Ranking system would be more difficult to administer.

Just food for thought. There can be many ways to skin a cat.

>From: "Keith Hoard" <khoard at midsouth.rr.com>
>Reply-To: discussion at nsrca.org
>To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>Subject: RE: Rules Changes----Advancement
>Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:53:05 -0600
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>What about a national ranking system?  As you compete thru the years, 
>you're
>given a score.  When you beat someone with a higher score than you, you 
>move
>up . . . get beaten, you move down.
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>Keith L. Hoard
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>Cordova, TN
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>khoard at midsouth.rr.com
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>From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org] On
>Behalf Of Atwood, Mark
>Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 9:23 AM
>To: discussion at nsrca.org
>Subject: RE: Rules Changes----Advancement
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>Another difficulty to this mess is regionalism and national
>"competitiveness".
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>Two examples.
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>Back in '91.flying Sportsman (Now intermediate) we had a crop of VERY
>competitive flyers.  There were 10-12 traveling pilots going to every
>contest, duking it out.  The top spots were consitantly held by 2-3 guys
>that dominated, but there were 3 or 4 others that were tight and not far
>behind.  Any of 8 could win a particular round.   Those 2 or 3 ALL pointed
>out.lots of people at each contest provided lots of points and back then we
>had 8 or 9 local contests plus a few "must travel too's (the mint coming to
>mind).
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>Then came the nats.and our star pilots got their collective BUTTS kicked.  
>I
>think the top guy finished 12th.  Bottom line.we all sucked. No one should
>have moved up.   The "points" were being awarded relative to the gang.not
>relative to actual skill.
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>Then there's 1997.  Flying advanced.we had another big group, with 3 of us
>always battling for each round.  Finishing often within just a few points 
>of
>each other, but in this case, one guy always on top.  Winning every contest
>that season, so HE pointed out, but no one else.  Again, the nats came.we
>were expecting to do ok, but were fearful of another "education" on how 
>this
>is done, only this time the opposite.  We all did well.finishing 1st, 3rd,
>and 7th.
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>In this case.everyone should have been forced to move up (we all did), but
>only one had too.
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>So how can we force a "move" just because someone is doing well locally??
>National standing.the only real measure we have, doesn't count.
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