[NSRCA-discussion] WC Complete...Standing Posted Unofficial

[steve hannah]

The scoring does seem a bit odd.  But it is what it is.

That being said, I have a hard time understanding why they drop any rounds
at all.  Seems to me (in my simple mind) that at the WC you should really
count every single flight a competitor puts up.  No drops.  It seems kind of
silly to have such a major contest boil down to two scored flights.  Why not
just have everyone fly the 2 rounds of F and 2 unknowns and be done with
it.  You aren't factoring a pilot's consistency over the entire event so
what's the point of even having prelims and semis?  You only narrow down the
field for the Finals, but why bother?  You have over 100 pilots grind
through the prelims then you have 30 pilots grind through the semis only to
throw all that scoring away and have 10 guys fly for the best two out of
four rounds.  Either count all the rounds or just fly the finals.  If you
must have a "Finals" then at least count every prelim, semi and final
flight.  If a guy flames out or makes a mistake on a flight, well then it
just wasn't his event.  If you did that at this event you would still have
the same winner, but the rest of the finishing order would have been quite
different.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 1:56 PM, <milehipilot at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought the preliminaries decided the team standings?
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