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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gene,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you for all you've done over the years on
this software.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here in your old stomping grounds, we have been
dropping the lowest "P" from Sat. (keep 3 best of 4 usually) and
the lowest "F" (keep best of 2) from Sun. which gives a total score of
4000 without any biased weighting of the P over the F or visa versa. This
prevents anyone from winning the contest by only flying on Sat.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We have been manually adding the results from the
end of Satuday's flying and the best of two F's to get this result.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks again,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mark, D6</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=gene.maurice@sgmservice.com
href="mailto:gene.maurice@sgmservice.com">Gene Maurice</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org
href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">'General pattern
discussion'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 10, 2010
10:14</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [NSRCA-discussion] PACSS Update
- Help Needed</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>I am in the process of a major update to the PACSS system
and need some help. <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Part of this update drastically changes the way Schedules
are defined and used. The change will result in the system being able to
support schedules for multiple organizations, ie. AMA, MAAC, SPA, etc., in the
same release. This includes the default class name and description being
imbedded in the Schedule, Schedule Import from an external sequential file,
etc.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>To help me work thru this process I need a couple of
things:<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraph
style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">1.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN><![endif]>A copy of the “SCHEDULE.MST” file from anyone who has
created a custom schedule record and used that schedule in a contest. Without
this information I can’t automatically convert the data during the release
upgrade process and would have to default any unknown schedule, that is, any
schedule that is not equal to the schedules originally delivered with the
system, to “UNKNOWN”<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraph
style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">2.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN><![endif]>The schedule information for any organization that
would like to have schedules included in this upgrade in Text, Word Doc, or
Excel format, anything that I can convert to a sequential file. I don’t want
to have to type all that data in!!!<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraph
style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">3.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN><![endif]>This includes the 2011 AMA schedules, does anyone have
them in the above formats.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>In addition, I’m finally going to try and fix the automatic
processing for a contest flying both FAI Prelims and Finals. In the past
I’ve asked for input on this with little response, so I’ll try again. Are
there any scoring scenarios that should be considered? How have you run a
contest with Finals? What is currently included in the automation
is:<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraph
style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">1.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN><![endif]>System Performs NO automated process<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraph
style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">2.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN><![endif]>Fly two separate classes. Contestants will
automatically be entered in both classes<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>
i.e. 3 of 4
Prelims rounds has separate standings from 1 of 2 rounds of
Finals<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraph
style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">3.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN><![endif]>Change the FAI schedule to the FINALS after PRELIM
round: XX<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>
Contestants assigned Schedule is automatically changed to the Finals
Schedule after the XX Prelim round, <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in">i.e. 4 of 6 rounds used in
standings calculations regardless of schedule flown<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraph
style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">4.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN><![endif]>Create a Normalized Round 1 in the FINALS after PRELIM
round: XX<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>
i.e. If 2 rounds of Finals are flown, standing would be calculated as
best 2 of 3 <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>
with the standings from the Prelims
weighted equal to the Finals<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>And finally, ANY other suggestions. All will be considered.
Without input I have to assume the system is perfect and having worked in
systems for over 35 years I know that’s not true. Besides, a single resource
designing, coding and testing a system is prone to error!!!!
<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The help is greatly appreciated………………………..<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Gene Maurice<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>gene.maurice@sgmservice.com<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Dallas, GA<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>AMA 3408<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>NSRCA 877<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>PACSS.sgmservice.com<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P></DIV>
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