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At Lubbock last weekend there were 2 Sportsman, 3 Intermediate, 2
advanced, 5 Masters and 4 FAI as i recall.. All threeof the contests in
this area that I have attended have had about 17 contestants. El Paso
had a total of 13 in Spotsman and Intermediate.which is a good sign for
the future.<br>
John<br>
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Claude Weimer wrote:
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">How many
Masters Flyers are generally in
the contests you fly in? We may have 4 or 5 Advanced and 10 to 15
Masters.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org">mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a>] <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>John Gayer<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, August
27, 2007
10:53 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">NSRCA Mailing List</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re:
[NSRCA-discussion]
Food for thought</span></font><font color="black"><span
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size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Western district 6. I live in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Albuquerque</st1:place></st1:City> and
fly Advanced. Jeff Hill and I
have competed against a total of one other contestant in three contests(<st1:City
w:st="on">Albuquerque</st1:City>, <st1:City w:st="on">El Paso</st1:City>
and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lubbock</st1:place></st1:City>).<br>
John Gayer<br>
NSRCA 632<br>
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Claude Weimer wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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part of the country
are you in?<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Claude<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>John
Gayer<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, August
27, 2007
10:17 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This sounds good to me as a
compromise. From what I've
seen, we are currently having difficulty getting enough competitiors
for the
classes we have now without adding another class.<br>
John<br>
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<a href="mailto:vicenterc@comcast.net">vicenterc@comcast.net</a>
wrote: <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Suggestion: Why we don't call
Expert = F3A and
fly the P schedule only in local contests? The only change we will
need
to make is that Expert = F3A becomes the last AMA class.
In other worlds, Master should not be the terminal AMA
class. Adding another class will add cost to the contest and
probably will be longer to run. <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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have been thinking, it might be time to bring back the Expert class.
The
reason I say this is because the Masters class is becoming rather large
and is
going to grow in the coming years. The problems I see are the
difficulty
judging at local contests. At the <st1:City u2:st="on"><st1:place
u2:st="on"><st1:City u5:st="on"><st1:place u5:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">St Louis</st1:place></st1:City></st1:place></st1:City></st1:place></st1:City>
contest it took an hour and a half to judge Masters. Because Masters
is
the largest class compared the Advanced and Intermediate and only three
FAI, it
can be difficult to organize Judges for Masters. I’m not singling
out the <st1:City u2:st="on"><st1:City u6:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">St
Louis</st1:City></st1:City></st1:City>
contest, the <st1:City u2:st="on"><st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:City
u7:st="on"><st1:place u7:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Omaha</st1:place></st1:City></st1:place></st1:City></st1:place></st1:City>
contest was the same as most contests I have been to. If Masters was
split in two classes it would inc! rease t he available people to judge.<u4:p></u4:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Masters could be a little
easier and Expert could be
harder. Expert could even be the last FAI P schedule. The reason
some don’t wish to move to FAI is the time to learn two schedules.
It looks like the Masters class is going to get larger and I think it
would be good to break it split it up.<u4:p></u4:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span
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