<div>Jerry Budd had a good suggestion in running 4 mini-contests for 6 rounds where each pilot would fly against their group for 6 straight rounds and then the top 3 from each group would fly in the finals. I'm leaning toward this because the current format does not work. We also need to do something about FAI - because there isn't equal exposure there either.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:41 PM, John Fuqua <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnfuqua@embarqmail.com">johnfuqua@embarqmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Every Nats I went to that had all events in 2 weeks ended up screwing<br>Pattern out of time or space. It never failed. I am against it even<br>
thought I liked to go see other events. We cannot do a first rate job when<br>we compete for runway space and days to fly.<br><br>I thought AMA wanted to reduce Nats costs. Moving them around does not do<br>that if you look at history and read up you will find a consistent comment<br>
about reducing Nats costs. NPAC was fully funded by the pilots and it cost<br>more than a typical Nats so factor that in.<br><br>No one has addressed the equal exposure to judges issues for the current<br>format yet and Mike's proposal does not correct that situation for Masters.<br>
I had one person suggest to me that if we continue to use the Matrix system<br>that we take the top 3 pilots from each "Group" to a 3 round finals. At<br>least then we have equal judging exposure and more or less equal weather<br>
exposure per round.<br><br>John<br>
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<div class="h5">[mailto:<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a>] On Behalf Of Tony<br>Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 2:56 PM<br>To: 'General pattern discussion'<br>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Flash Poll - Relocate the Nats in 2010?<br><br>That is a possibility also. AMA is thinking about returning the NATS to a 2<br>week all-events NATS like used to be done. If all events are together, HQ<br>
can put all costs into one effort. If they are all split up, Each group<br>would have more costs to deal with due to the fact that HQ can't send a<br>group of people to every site.<br><br><br><br>Tony Stillman, President<br>
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<br>From: <a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a>] On Behalf Of Tim Taylor<br>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 3:39 PM<br>To: General pattern discussion<br>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Flash Poll - Relocate the Nats in 2010?<br><br><br><br>It was done, It was called NPAC<br><br><br><br>Tim<br><br>--- On Thu, 7/30/09, Bill's Email <<a href="mailto:wemodels@cox.net">wemodels@cox.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<br><br> From: Bill's Email <<a href="mailto:wemodels@cox.net">wemodels@cox.net</a>><br> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Flash Poll - Relocate the Nats in<br>2010?<br> To: "General pattern discussion" <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>><br>
Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 2:06 PM<br><br> Why not allow the SIGS to do their own thing? IMAC and NSRCA do not<br>need to share a site. The LSF can find a site for the soaring NATS. Pylon<br>knows what venues work for them and so on. FF can do their own thing as<br>
well. Why tie soaring and FF together and so on??<br><br><br> Tony wrote:<br><br> Matt:<br> Yes, it is just difficult to tell if it is actually feasible. The<br>problem is that it requires a large site for Pattern/Pylon/IMAC and will<br>
require another large site for Soaring/Outdoor FF. It may be very difficult<br>to actually find places that can handle this group.<br><br><br><br><br><br> Tony Stillman, President<br><br> Radio South, Inc.<br>
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