[NSRCA-discussion] World F3A contest

[George Kennie]

I think that many of these international judges have been uptown most of
the day and are familiar with the atmosphere that they are operating in and
it's potential to reward or penalize them for significant discrepancies in
their scoring awards.

Possible mental bias exercises: " Let's see now, here comes CPLR, (He's
GOOD ! ), this is TBL scoring, I know that all the other judges will grade
him highly and if I don't want to stick out like a sore thumb I'd better do
likewise"

Think that's too harsh? I don't think so. I know that everybody thinks that
I'm a nut case, but I don't care. I scored these guys in Twenty Eleven and
I saw 5 pilots who outpointed CPLR and I also witnessed the surprise on his
face when they proclaimed him the winner. Am I biased? I don't think so.
CPLR is a great guy to talk to. He and I had great conversations regarding
force arrangements and I found him to be a wonderful down to earth all
around terrific person, but this isn't a personality contest. Your mission
is to outpoint your opponents and according to my numbers he didn't do
that. Of course you can say that I know absolutely zero about judging, but
that's an opinion that would take some amount of verification. I say that
my scores were not TBL modified and possibly reflected more accurate raw
numbers

I was convinced that the whole international panel could have been
classified as individuals who had met poor certification standards, but
could it be possible that TBL influenced the outcome in some way?

Nah!, I think I'm sticking to my original conclusion.

G.


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Stuart Chale <schale1 at verizon.net> wrote:

> Each Worlds the scoring always always causes me "to raise an eyebrow"  I
> can't say surprises me because we have seen it before. For most flyers the
> scores seem lower than we would expect.  Lower than they would receive at
> the Nats never mind local contests.  Did Joseph really deserve 6's on a
> half loop turnaround.  Did he have 60 degrees of error or fly a half
> hexagon?  Are the Judges that much better than the rest of us that they are
> seeing the errors that we don't?   Or are they upping the bar with an
> unwritten rule ( 1 point / 5 degrees etc) .  Any 10's given out?
> I know the top fliers are difficult to differentiate until the finals and
> unknowns and usually it works out that the best flyer wins, I just like to
> see the same criteria used at all contests.
>
> Or maybe I am not as good a judge as I think :)
>
> Stuart C.
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