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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>I’ve been talking about this for years. If there was a simple electronic scoreboard posting raw scores, it would make for a much better spectator sport. Yes, there would be some booing as a snap was scored or zeroed, but I’m not sure that that’s a bad thing. I might find it to be disruptive to hear all the laughing, but I’d get used to it. Heck, I am used to it :)<BR>
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I can only imagine the cries when a wrong maneuver is flown and everyone but the judges know it.<BR>
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On 8/27/07 1:37 PM, "Derek Koopowitz" <derekkoopowitz@gmail.com> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>There is a thread on RCU under the "Classic Pattern Flying" forum about the team selection in 1972. Way back then they were posting real time scores of pilots as they flew - apparently they had a "reporter" that looked over the judges shoulders as they scored each maneuver and then radioed them to someone that posted/wrote the scores of each maneuver as they were flown onto a poster size scoresheet attached to a board. <BR>
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With the technology available to us today I would love to see this at future contests - can you just imagine all the "oohhhss and aahhhs" from the spectators. :)<BR>
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