The scoring does seem a bit odd. But it is what it is. <br><br>That being said, I have a hard time understanding why they drop any rounds at all. Seems to me (in my simple mind) that at the WC you should really count every single flight a competitor puts up. No drops. It seems kind of silly to have such a major contest boil down to two scored flights. Why not just have everyone fly the 2 rounds of F and 2 unknowns and be done with it. You aren't factoring a pilot's consistency over the entire event so what's the point of even having prelims and semis? You only narrow down the field for the Finals, but why bother? You have over 100 pilots grind through the prelims then you have 30 pilots grind through the semis only to throw all that scoring away and have 10 guys fly for the best two out of four rounds. Either count all the rounds or just fly the finals. If you must have a "Finals" then at least count every prelim, semi and final flight. If a guy flames out or makes a mistake on a flight, well then it just wasn't his event. If you did that at this event you would still have the same winner, but the rest of the finishing order would have been quite different.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 1:56 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:milehipilot@gmail.com">milehipilot@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I thought the preliminaries decided the team standings?<br>
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From: Archie Stafford <<a href="mailto:astafford@swtexas.net">astafford@swtexas.net</a>><br>
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:43:33<br>
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Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] WC Complete...Standing Posted Unofficial<br>
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