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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Windows 10, and ActiveScripting has been enabled.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:vogel.peter@gmail.com">Peter Vogel</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, July 23, 2018 10:40 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:tomanekwk@gmail.com">Wojtek Tomanek</a>; <a href="mailto:maureendunphy4@gmail.com">Maureen Dunphy</a>; <a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">General patterndiscussion</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [NSRCA-discussion] F3A Results now published toPatternscoring.com</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What browser are you using? Is JavaScript enables in your security settings?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Get <a href="https://aka.ms/o0ukef">Outlook for iOS</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=694 height=2 style='width:7.2291in;height:.0208in' id="Horizontal_x0020_Line_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D42279.855BCC40"><o:p></o:p></p><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='color:black'> Wojtek Tomanek <tomanekwk@gmail.com><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 23, 2018 9:39:06 AM<br><b>To:</b> Maureen Dunphy; General patterndiscussion; Peter Vogel<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [NSRCA-discussion] F3A Results now published toPatternscoring.com</span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I still cannot view the <a href="http://www.patternscoring.com/">http://www.patternscoring.com/</a> page, I can get to it but it is a blank page. I would greatly appreciate if someone could cut and paste all NATS results in an email reply.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you in advance.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Wojtek<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">Maureen Dunphy via NSRCA-discussion</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, July 22, 2018 7:58 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:vogel.peter@gmail.com">Peter Vogel</a>; <a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">General pattern discussion</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [NSRCA-discussion] F3A Results now published toPatternscoring.com<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I know all of the contestants appreciate all of your hard work. I remember all of the years that I was involved in the Nats and Team Selections. If something went wrong in scoring, it was not a fun situation to be in. Things always worked out, but getting there could be a "pain".<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Congratulations to everyone involved in putting on a great Nats. I do miss the old days.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 10:50 AM Peter Vogel via NSRCA-discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>Hi Folks,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>Sorry for the delay getting the F3A final results published. They are now live on PatternScoring.com under District NATS/ <a href="http://patternscoring.com/f34104b6-a027-4f28-83ec-c7b840b3110a" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#663399;background:white'>2018 NATS Masters and F3A</span></b></a>. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>Here's what was going on -- because in the F3A preliminaries we were unable, with the matrix system, to ensure equal exposure of all contestants to the judges, the new F3A normalization rules would have made it possible for a winner on one site to potentially get hundreds of points more than a winner on the other site, having nothing to do with the quality of the flight but only with variance in judging. Hence the decision was made to normalize only to 1000 in the preliminaries, and, since a normalized prelim score carries forward to the semi-finals, to apply the same normalization to the semis.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>The finals are effectively a completely separate contest (though maintained as rounds 7-10 in the same contest) with no carry-forward of scores, so there we wanted to follow the new F3A normalization rule.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>MasterScoring handled all of this quite well, however, we discovered on export of the contest results for publication that it would apply one normalization rule or the other to ALL rounds of the contest -- which obviously does not reflect the official results.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>A solution came to me last night and I have just published the consolidated results to <a href="http://patternscoring.com" target="_blank">patternscoring.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>Peter+<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>Director, Fixed Wing Flight Training<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>Santa Clara County Model Aircraft Skypark<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>Associate Vice President, Academy of Model Aeronautics District X<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>Treasurer, National Society of Radio Control Aerobatics (NSRCA)<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'><img border=0 width=200 height=154 style='width:2.0833in;height:1.6041in' id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7163/6513778381_5569cc985d_m.jpg" alt="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7163/6513778381_5569cc985d_m.jpg"><img border=0 width=200 height=136 style='width:2.0833in;height:1.4166in' id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://googledrive.com/host/0B4LOPeyGAgOJUVJmU1dJMVl6WWc/AcademyModelAeronauticsLogo.png" alt="https://googledrive.com/host/0B4LOPeyGAgOJUVJmU1dJMVl6WWc/AcademyModelAeronauticsLogo.png"><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>_______________________________________________<br>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion" target="_blank">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>