[NSRCA-discussion] F3A Results now published toPatternscoring.com

[Wojtek Tomanek]

Hi 

I still cannot view the http://www.patternscoring.com/ page, I can get to it but it is a blank page.  I would greatly appreciate if someone could cut and paste all NATS results in an email reply.

Thank you in advance.

Wojtek


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From: Maureen Dunphy via NSRCA-discussion
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2018 7:58 PM
To: Peter Vogel; General pattern discussion
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] F3A Results now published toPatternscoring.com

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.  

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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