[NSRCA-dist7] Fwd: Season Championship Thoughts

Fri Feb 13 18:55:04 AKST 2015

Yes, but they are not "seasonal"... hehe jk jk... don't shoot me..

C

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Anthony Frackowiak via NSRCA-dist7 <
nsrca-dist7 at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:

> We crown an AMA National Champion in all the classes every year without
> any requirement other then they win the one contest.
>
> We also form our World Champs Team based on the results of one contest
> with no other attendance or results required.
>
> Tony
>
> On Feb 13, 2015, at 11:35 AM, Dale Olstinske via NSRCA-dist7 wrote:
>
> I think its a fine idea to move the D7 championship around a bit, in fact
> at the meeting at the AMA show I was going to volunteer to look for a Nor
> Cal site, but not for this year yet. I also think Arvin is a great site for
> this. It is very centrally located, at least for California which the
> highest percentage of pilots are in D7 and its seems to have the best
> weather, of any site we use. That said, I would support a rotating
> schedule, between north and south, with (a little less frequent) trip to AZ
> or even Vegas.
>
> I also support requiring local contest attendance for the district
> championships. No other sport that I can think of crowns a champion without
> prerequisite wins or attendance. I guess we can debate the number, 3,4 or
> 5, but I like 4 as is now the proposal. I would have no issue with the
> Championship contest being all about the best pilot, but that pilot should
> have had some prior requirements to be eligible.
>
> I want to extend my gratitude to Sean, for doing a great job, it isn’t
> easy trying to please everyone, it’s impossible!
>
> My $.02,
>
> Dale
>
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> *Date: *February 13, 2015 at 11:01:21 AM PST
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> *Subject: **[NSRCA-dist7] Fwd: Season Championship Thoughts*
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> From: Jon Carter <jon.x.carter at oracle.com>
> Date:02/13/2015 10:57 AM (GMT-08:00)
> To: "Jonathan Carter (joncarter60 at comcast.net)" <joncarter60 at comcast.net>
> Cc:
> Subject: Season Championship Thoughts
>
> *NSRCA District 7 Season Championship Thoughts*
>
>
> There has been some discussion on the D7 list lately regarding the changes
> that Sean is implementing this year for the NSRCA season championship
> award. I think we need to mention what it is that the season championship
> should represent. In my opinion, it’s more than just picking the best pilot
> on a given day. It should represent a “season” of competition with all that
> goes along with that. You know the stuff that makes our sport great.
> (Flying, BS’ing, Saturday night dinners, helping out other pilots, calling,
> teasing other pilots, etc. etc.!) Now, given our format for the season
> champion I think we have a good balance between picking the best season
> competitor and picking the best pilot. We generally have the top two, three
> or four pilots all going into the season championship essentially tied on
> points so it often does come down to who has the “stuff” for that one big
> contest! Sean’s initial proposal discussed at the AMA Expo was to increase
> the number of contests that had points counted from 3 to 5. There was much
> discussion with a slight majority thinking that 5 contests were too many to
> count. There was more discussion and a number of 4 was proposed. Most
> people present seemed to think this was a good number. Sean also is
> allowing 2 “out of district contests” to count towards a D7 pilot’s total.
> This is aimed to assist some of our D7 pilots who live farther away from
> most of the D7 contests but are closer to some adjacent district contests.
> I support both of these modifications.
>
>
> Just for grins, I went and looked at how many contests the pilots in
> different classes attended last year. This is for all district pilots in
> all classes. Here is the data.
>
> *Class*
> *Average # of contests attended in 2015 by D7 pilots*
> Sportsman
> 4.8
> Intermediate
> 6.2
> Advanced
> 5.1
> Masters
> 5.2
> FAI “Silver”
> 6.8
> FAI-F3A
> 3.8
>
>
> I think this shows that FAI pilots need to come out and fly at some more
> D7 contests!!! Except for them, everyone already attends at least 4
> contests a year anyway! I then looked at “how many contests did the pilots
> who actually attended the season championship go to during the year”
>
> *Class*
> *Average # of contests attended in 2015 by D7 pilots who attended the
> season championship*
> Sportsman
> 6.6
> Intermediate
> 6.8
> Advanced
> 7.0
> Masters
> 6.2
> FAI “Silver”
> 6.7
> FAI-F3A
> 4.0
>
>
> Interesting! Again, FAI is the outlier but all of the other classes go to
> at least 6 contests per year! I didn’t crunch the data for other years but
> I looked them over and they appear pretty similar to 2015.
>
>
> Now, expense has been mentioned and that certainly is a factor in these
> difficult economic times. As you can see from the data though people are
> already going to enough contests! With the addition of allowing two out of
> D7 contests to assist those pilots who are less centrally located I really
> do not think this will have a negative economic impact on our pilots. I
> really think that the relatively slight modification that Sean has made to
> our season championship scoring system is a positive step towards
> reinforcing attendance at local contests albeit, mostly symbolic according
> to the data.
>
>
> Another item that has been mentioned is where to have the District
> Championship? When I first started flying in the District it moved around
> quite a bit. I remember one in Las Vegas where it was freezing cold and
> blowing a gale for the 14 pilots who attended! (We got in one day of
> flying!) I also was at a championship contest in Prado that had a good
> turnout but it snowed on Saturday night! (Also a 1 day!) It seems that a
> central location with, as much as possible, reliable weather in the late
> October timeframe would be ideal. Arvin has certainly fit that bill very
> well recently as has Fresno. My personal opinion is that if we want to move
> it around some that is great! Maybe a little further south some years,
> maybe a little further north, maybe we even go crazy and have Gary or John
> arrange something in AZ!!! The point being that it really seems Sean is
> open to moving it around to places that make sense. When he first published
> the preliminary season schedule for 2015 in November of 2014 there was a
> question mark on the location of the district championship. That is the
> time to approach Sean and your club to formulate plans. As far as I know
> the only clubs/people that offered to host it were Fresno and Arvin. Since
> we had done Fresno last year Sean chose Arvin. I think that is a great
> field with (usually) great weather and an active group of pattern flyers!
> Sounds good to me!
>
>
> In summation I want to thank and congratulate Sean for doing a great job
> as District VP! He has reached out to pilots and solicited input from all
> and made reasoned, considerate decisions. Just like we elected him to do!
> Our district is the envy of many others for our weather, our contests, our
> fun and our great people! Let’s keep it that way.
>
>
> Jon Carter
>
> Ex District 7 VP!
>
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Chris Fitzsimmons
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