<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Chris,<div><br></div><div>I honestly don't remember. Back when I first moved to this district I probably didn't pay that much attention as I was still punching away at making Teams and attending Worlds. Then I quit pattern for a period until 2004. Quit again after 2005 and got back in in 2008. As far as I remember there has been some number of local meets then the Champs.</div><div><br></div><div>I hear you about the Nats! I probably won't get to go to another one unless the NSRCA gets some sense and starts to move it around. Just too expensive for me. </div><div><br></div><div>Tony</div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 13, 2015, at 6:55 PM, Chris Fitzsimmons wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Tony, <br><br></div>Was there a time that 1 out of district contest counted? I though that's how it always was. I was under the impression the nats even counted for 1. Not that that would ever make a difference for me. lol <br><br>Thx, <br><br></div>C<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Anthony Frackowiak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frackowiak@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">frackowiak@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Interesting numbers Jon. But they really do not prove anything. Averages are just that, averages. I suppose if all the NSRCA members in the district disclosed their income and available free time and we could then average that out between everyone then it would be fair. I'm all for it! But these changes implemented by Sean without a proper way of polling all involved do not work for the "below average" income guys. Why are we doing something that might possibly keep someone out of the champs if as you say it is purely symbolic? Makes no sense to me!<div><br></div><div>And I don't know how you can continue to say that Arvin and Fresno are central to this district. They are far from it. Wonder how the Arizona, Utah and Nevada guys feel about always being told that Central California is the center of the district? And why would it be so crazy to have a Champs at the absolutely beautiful field that Gary Switala holds his contest? Shortsightedness like this certainly does nothing to increase participation throughout this "entire" district.</div><div><br></div><div>I guess if you tell no one that you are open to bids for hosting the Champs, only talk to Fresno and Arvin, then picking Arvin is a fine choice.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm sorry if my tone is harsh. But it seems at times like that is the only way to raise a point. And being one of the lower income guys trying to do this it maybe I am more sensitive to it then others.</div><div><br></div><div>Tony Frackowiak </div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 13, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Jonathan L Carter via NSRCA-dist7 wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Chris – As I indicated in my post,
the data shows that Sean’s change is primarily symbolic. That being said,
it is important symbolism in my mind. First, it reinforces the fact that this
is a “Season”- “Championship”; the pilot’s
participation in the “season” is important. Second, there were a
few pilots (in FAI) who only attended three contests last year and the season
championship! Perhaps under Sean’s new system we will get to see their
smiling, happy faces at four contests! This has the direct potential to
increase local contest attendance. Now you might argue that they will ignore
the fame, honor and chicks that come along with being the D7 season champion due
to this new requirement. I sure hope not but if they do, we will miss them. </span></font><font color="navy" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:navy">L</span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Having two out of district contests able
to count really makes it easier for our more remote located pilots to
accumulate the four contests required. Now they only need two regular in
district contests and they can fill the other two with, hopefully, closer out
of district contests.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Now, if you want me to add Gross Yearly
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Fitzsimmons [mailto:<a href="mailto:kfactoreditor@gmail.com" target="_blank">kfactoreditor@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, February 13, 2015
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> joncarter60; CA, AZ, HI, NV,
UT<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [NSRCA-dist7] Fwd:
Season Championship Thoughts</span></font><u></u><u></u></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Did you break those down
by Gross Yearly Income? lol I'm guessing the contests are attended more by
people who earn more. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">From those numbers, it's
a wash you are saying from both view points. Sean's idea makes 0 difference and
will not make any difference on getting more people to attend more contests
because people already attend more than that many contests. Matter of fact,
twice as many currently. On the other side, it also has no difference on who
will win the district Champion because more contests are already attended than
3 by twice as much. The ratio actually goes down by adding the 4th contest. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">As I stated before,
adding a 4th win needed (per say), negates the need for the 2nd out of district
contest needed. They still need 2 in district so it makes 0 difference. Am I
missing something there? <br>
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Thanks for doing the great numbers and write up on this Jon! <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:01 AM, joncarter60 via NSRCA-dist7 <<a href="mailto:nsrca-dist7@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">nsrca-dist7@lists.nsrca.org</a>>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Date:02/13/2015 10:57 AM (GMT-08:00) <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none" align="center"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">NSRCA District 7
Season Championship Thoughts</span></font></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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.</span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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.</span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><u></u><u></u></p>
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</tbody></table><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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”</span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><u></u><u></u></p>
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</tbody></table><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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.</span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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.</span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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 <u></u><u></u>Las Vegas<u></u><u></u> 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 <u></u><u></u>Fresno<u></u><u></u>.
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 <u></u><u></u>Fresno<u></u><u></u> and Arvin. Since
we had done <u></u><u></u>Fresno<u></u><u></u>
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!</span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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.</span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Jon Carter</span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Ex District 7 VP!</span></font><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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