<div dir="ltr"><div>For our F3A pilots out there who want to practice Unknowns before the NATS:</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">My service for F3A Team USA: <a href="http://www.faiunknowngenerator.com" target="_blank">http://www.faiunknowngenerator.com</a> has been updated with the 2016-2017 F3A sporting code's catalog of maneuvers as well as the new rules for unknowns (must include at least one maneuver from catalogs 19 or G, 20 or H, 22 and 23, must have 3 maneuvers of K=6 and 5 maneuvers of K=5, minimum total K=72 (no maximum, but the practical maximum seems to fall at about 75 with most sequences being 72 or 73). It's also been updated to provide a link to get the PDF of the Aresti as well as displaying the Aresti in the page. The table of maneuvers has been rejiggered to handle smaller form factor devices better and not clip the maneuver descriptions.<div><br></div><div>MasterScoring has been updated to call the unknown generator to generate unknowns and will soon be updated so that the call card printed by MasterScoring includes the Aresti. This <i>may</i> be the system used to generate unknowns for the NATS (details regarding that will be forthcoming from the AMA and the ED) which will allow for unknowns to be generated in the presence of all finalists, the ED and the head judge. <b>If you discover a sequence that you believe to be invalid according to the latest F3A rules, please send me a note along with the Aresti of the sequence or a screen shot of the sequence from RCCaller and I will investigate. We've used the system to generate unknowns at 2 contests this year and I've generated 100's and haven't found any to be invalid yet, but the possibility certainly exists. If you encounter other problems, errors on the page, no sequence generated within a few minutes of loading the page, etc. please send me a note with the approximate time you attempted to generate a sequence and I will investigate.</b></div><div><br></div><div>I have also updated the RCCaller iOS app to call the unknown generator for you -- click "Schedules", click the "+" button, set the schedule name to something you like "i.e. Unknown" and click "Generate Unknown" -- with a good network connection about 30-60 seconds later (generating an unknown can take a while, it is an iterative process that sometimes has to scrap its work and try again when it gets to an unsolvable state) you'll have a new unknown in the RCCaller, hit "save" and it's ready to call that unknown sequence for you.</div><div><br></div><div>I wrote and pay to host this service. If you want to help defray the not insignificant hosting costs for the service, please consider clicking on the donate button if you find it useful!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_154505f05e9f7e6d" alt="Inline image 2" width="231" height="449"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>
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