[NSRCA-discussion] 2020 FAI Format

[Vicente Bortone]

Mark,

It will be interesting to know what other countries are doing in local 2
days contests.

Vicente “Vince” Bortone

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 10:43 AM Atwood, Mark via NSRCA-discussion <
nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> This is directed to D4 pilots, but since we have FAI pilots from other
> districts that attend D4 events I wanted to include everyone.
>
> This really only impacts the FAI flyers but I wanted to throw out a few
> thoughts for the 2020 season and get some feedback so we can decide how
> best to run scoring in D4 next year.
>
> 2 Issues…
>
> *Issue 1: * Our current scoring format at local events over emphasizes
> the F pattern.  In short, if you win both F rounds on Sunday, you win the
> contest.   This has a number of negative effects.  For one, it’s
> discouraging to those that are trying to advance into FAI.  Typically a new
> comer to FAI has the ability to fly the P pattern extremely competitively,
> but may struggle in the first year or two…or five… learning the ropes on
> all the integrated rolling, knife edge and generally complex maneuvers.
> Most are happy to take the plunge and get beat up on Sundays…but want to
> see their strong efforts in the P pattern count for something.      It’s
> also damaging for efforts at the Nats and other large events where flying P
> well is critical to success and even the opportunity to fly F in the
> Semi's.
>
> Recommendation:   We change our final tabulation to more properly
> emphasize the P flights.
>
> Currently we use a semi-final format but with everyone moving forward.
> Carrying a composite P score, and then flying 2 F flights and keeping the
> best 2 of 3 (thus allowing someone to JUST fly 2 F’s and win the event).
>
> I would recommend one of two alternate approaches.    1) Carry the
> composite P score, Keeping that score, and your best F score (thus
> requiring you to keep your P rounds), OR… and this is MY personal
> preference, we use our normal round dropping formula (best 3 of 4, 4 of 5,
> 4 of 6 etc) but you may only drop ONE P score, and only ONE F Score.   So
> for example in a traditional 6 round event, you would have your best 3 P
> scores, and best F score to determine the results.
>
> *Issue 2)*   Normalization.   The new normalization has caused
> considerable problems locally and on the world stage.  It’s likely to be
> replaced / amended in the next rules cycle.  Most countries (canada
> included) have gone back to the old format for all local events.   I
> recommend we do the same.   The new method has tremendous value when there
> are 50-60 competitors, as it prevents one high score from making the entire
> round a throw away for the rest of the competitors.  But with smaller
> groups, even in the semi-finals at the worlds, it has the strong negative
> effect of making one round worth more than another.  Which can highlight
> and exacerbate weather conditions, judging bias, etc.   Its the reason we
> started normalizing in the first place.
>
> Recommendation:  We revert to traditional normalization (highest score
> equals 1000) for the 2020 season.
>
> Thoughts??
>
> Peter/ Scott - What can the scoring program handle?
>
> -Mark
>
>
>
>
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