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

[Maureen Dunphy]

I know all of the contestants appreciate all of your hard work.  I remember
all of the years that I was involved in the Nats and Team Selections.  If
something went wrong in scoring, it was not a fun situation to be in.
Things always worked out, but getting there could be a "pain".

Congratulations to everyone involved in putting on a great Nats.  I do miss
the old days.

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 10:50 AM Peter Vogel via NSRCA-discussion <
nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:

> 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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