[NSRCA-discussion] F3A Results now published to Patternscoring.com

[Peter Vogel]

Hi Folks,

Sorry for the delay getting the F3A final results published.  They are now
live on PatternScoring.com under District NATS/ 2018 NATS Masters and F3A
<http://patternscoring.com/f34104b6-a027-4f28-83ec-c7b840b3110a>.

Here's what was going on -- because in the F3A preliminaries we were
unable, with the matrix system, to ensure equal exposure of all contestants
to the judges, the new F3A normalization rules would have made it possible
for a winner on one site to potentially get hundreds of points more than a
winner on the other site, having nothing to do with the quality of the
flight but only with variance in judging.  Hence the decision was made to
normalize only to 1000 in the preliminaries, and, since a normalized prelim
score carries forward to the semi-finals, to apply the same normalization
to the semis.

The finals are effectively a completely separate contest (though maintained
as rounds 7-10 in the same contest) with no carry-forward of scores, so
there we wanted to follow the new F3A normalization rule.

MasterScoring handled all of this quite well, however, we discovered on
export of the contest results for publication that it would apply one
normalization rule or the other to ALL rounds of the contest -- which
obviously does not reflect the official results.

A solution came to me last night and I have just published the consolidated
results to patternscoring.com.

Peter+

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Director, Fixed Wing Flight Training
Santa Clara County Model Aircraft Skypark
Associate Vice President, Academy of Model Aeronautics District X
Treasurer, National Society of Radio Control Aerobatics (NSRCA)
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