[NSRCA-discussion] Are we behind the times?

[seefo at san.rr.com]

Actually I think it could be a bad thing on a real-time maneuver-by-
maneuver basis. If when a pilot landed, you could post the entire 
flight score immediately that'd be great. 

There is always that concern that something could bias the judges for 
or against a pilot, and IF you had a crowd who was cheering or making 
other such noises during a flight as scores appeared, it COULD further 
add to this concern.

As a point of reference, this happened at the TOC years ago, when 
during a specific pilot's flight, the crowd cheered after EVERY 
MANEUVER, including some that were flown incorrectly. 

-Doug



----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Atwood <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com>
Date: Monday, August 27, 2007 10:55 am
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Are we behind the times?
To: NSRCA Mailing List <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>

> I¹ve been talking about this for years.  If there was a simple 
> electronicscoreboard posting raw scores, it would make for a much 
> better spectator
> sport.  Yes, there would be some booing as a snap was scored or 
> zeroed, but
> I¹m not sure that that¹s a bad thing.  I might find it to be 
> disruptive to
> hear all the laughing, but I¹d get used to it.  Heck, I am used to 
> it :)
> 
> I can only imagine the cries when a wrong maneuver is flown and 
> everyone but
> the judges know it.
> 
> 
> On 8/27/07 1:37 PM, "Derek Koopowitz" <derekkoopowitz at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > There is a thread on RCU under the "Classic Pattern Flying" 
> forum about the
> > team selection in 1972.  Way back then they were posting real 
> time scores of
> > pilots as they flew - apparently they had a "reporter" that 
> looked over the
> > judges shoulders as they scored each maneuver and then radioed 
> them to someone
> > that posted/wrote the scores of each maneuver as they were flown 
> onto a poster
> > size scoresheet attached to a board.
> >  
> > With the technology available to us today I would love to see 
> this at future
> > contests - can you just imagine all the "oohhhss and aahhhs" 
> from the
> > spectators.  :)
> > 
> > 
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