[NSRCA-discussion] Unknowns (now about judging)

[Ron Van Putte]

Every once in a while, those of us who really care about R/C  
aerobatic competition have to scream to be heard above the "go along  
to get along" guys and the "we can't do anything about it, so let's  
just stop talking about it" crowd.  I believe we (NSRCA) need to push  
the required judging representation ratios as hard as we can to get  
as many non-European judges in the judging chairs as we can in 2011.

Ron VP

On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:11 PM, Derek Koopowitz wrote:

> I really don’t see what purpose this thread is going to serve… we  
> (us – this list) cannot control what the quality of the judges are  
> going to be at any world championship.  We (the NSRCA and the AMA)  
> can only control which US judge is presented to the CIAM – we  
> should also not influence how other countries select their judges  
> either.  That is their right and they control that process.
>
> Making statements that the WC’s are somehow using judges that don’t  
> judge by the rules isn’t fair to those judges that judged at the  
> WC’s at all.  Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but let’s at  
> least give them (judges) the benefit of the doubt in that they  
> judged the flights according to the way they saw it.  Please  
> remember that there are 20 judges there and I seriously doubt that  
> the majority of them were in collusion and were determined to pick  
> “their” guy as the champion.  Also please remember that in the  
> finals, 5 judges were only judging the left turnaround maneuvers  
> only, 5 different judges were judging the right turnaround  
> maneuvers only, and 10 different judges were judging the center  
> maneuvers only.  No one is perfect if they missed seeing a line off  
> by 5/10/15 degrees, or an over/under rotation on a roll (snap) by  
> 5/10 degrees.
>
>
> I’ll leave you with a quote – “Try as hard as we may for  
> perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of  
> imperfectness.  We are surprised at our own versatility in being  
> able to fail in so many different ways.”.
>
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