[NSRCA-discussion] Fwd: More pattern ideas

[Mark Hunt]

Chuck and I stole this idea to make unknowns at a local contest...same
manuevers for each unknown class, added complexity...made the fai guys fly
first...intermediate/sportsman last...worked very well.

Next season will be interesting and hopefully will show benefits to this
change.

-mark

On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 9:16 PM Jas S via NSRCA-discussion <
nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:

> Funny what you find when going back through emails. #2 is gonna happen
> next year. Let’s see how it goes.
>
> Jas iP
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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> *From:* Jeff via NSRCA-discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> *Date:* November 9, 2016 at 1:09:53 AM EST
> *To:* General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> *Subject:* *[NSRCA-discussion] More pattern ideas*
>
> 
>
>
> Following are two, partially thought-out, ideas that might address some of
> the concerns in the current threads:
>
> 1. We could implement a “Fun Class.” It would be similar to the “Fun
> League” in most softball leagues. Fun Leagues typically attract teams that
> rarely, if ever, practice and whose main goal is to drink beer after the
> game and tell lies. Fun class could be implemented in two ways. One would
> be as an adjunct to  each of our current classes where each contestant
> would declare that they were in the ‘Fun’ adjunct at registration. They
> would fly with the non-fun pilots but their scores would only be compared
> within the fun class. The second would be to create 1 or 2 new fun classes.
> They would fly an existing schedule but because there were fewer classes
> pilots would be aggregated within a fun class. That is whoever wanted could
> fly Fun 1 which might be the Intermediate schedule while others might
> choose Fun 2, perhaps the Masters schedule. Purely the pilot's choice.
> Ringers to first timers welcome.
>
> 2. We could implement a handicap system. In this scheme everyone would fly
> FAI-P but with one important change. The total K-Factor would be adjusted
> by reducing the complexity of maneuvers. So, Masters might fly the existing
> FAI-P schedule. Sportsman might fly maneuvers that only mimicked the shapes
> of the FAI-P maneuvers and some of the turn-arounds might be entirely
> unscored. In the current FAI-P for example the eye catcher might be done
> without rolls, the half square would remain, the KE combination would be
> straight flight,… It would make judging a lot easier too because everyone
> would be flying the same, albeit modified, pattern.
>
> Jeff
>
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