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<DIV>In an earlier thread, I resopnded to a comment about our club making the
Sportsman class two one day contest for as long as I can remember, and for the
same length of time, I can't remember anyone flying just one of the days. I am
sure it has happened, but the instances have been rare. On our end, it means
that we have to buy, or make up and extra set of awards.</DIV>
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<DIV>Terry T.</DIV>
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<DIV>On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:45:31 -0400 Mike Wizynajtys <<A
href="mailto:mikewiz@tcwireless.us">mikewiz@tcwireless.us</A>> writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>That seems reasonable. What if the only day you can attend is the second
day? Do contests allow that? I could have done that once this past summer,
when a tight work deadline messed up my plans.<BR><BR>Wiz<BR><BR>At 08:03 AM
9/29/2006, you wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">The obvious answer is to only
attend one day of a two day event. At the end of the first day, you pretty
much know how your going to stack up against the competition. Which is the
main reason I fly. For family reasons, I only attend on saturday.
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<DD>From: Chris Moon <cjm767driver@hotmail.com> <BR>
<DD>One day contests really require a large number of potential flyers
within a reasonably short driving distance. I think that they were
more popular years ago when there were more people in pattern. In
the 80's on the East coast there were lots of flyers and several one day
contests. Today, we have people driving 400 -500 miles to a 2 day
contest and that would not be good for a one day event. However if
you had enough local people to make up for the loss of the long distance
drivers maybe it would work. I just don't know of too many areas
that have enough people local to make up an event and not have to rely on
long distance drivers to guarantee a good contest with lots of
competition.<BR>
<DD>I would like some one day contests too, but not if I am only flying a!
gainst 1 or 2 other guys.<BR>
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