[NSRCA-dist8] Contest Scoring Ideas

[Rex]

I like both ideas!...  The iScore would be really cool!

 

Rex
 
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:08:20 -0700
> From: GAA at owt.com
> To: nsrca-dist8 at lists.nsrca.org
> Subject: [NSRCA-dist8] Contest Scoring Ideas
> 
> All,
> 
> OK, its pretty quite on this list and I have a couple of ideas about 
> running the 2009 contest scoring that I would like to discuss. The deal 
> is we mostly do not use scribes due to lack of people etc. This means a 
> lot of judges look away from the plane to write the scores on the score 
> sheet. The preferred method that some, but not all, judges use is to 
> write the scores on a piece of scratch paper and then at the end of the 
> flight they transcribe the data to the score sheet. The negative part of 
> this process is the delay during transcription and the paper you waste 
> in the process. There is always a chance of error during this 
> transcription because the judge is always in a hurry. The nice thing is 
> your eyes never leave the plane and you miss nothing.
> 
> So to make this work a little better how about we just get ride of the 
> score sheets all together. We can cut 8 1/2" by 11" plain blank paper 
> into three 11" long strips and the judge just puts the scores on the 
> strip of paper along with the pilots name and the judges name or number. 
> The score keeper can just enter the numbers into the scoring program and 
> staple the strip of paper to the score sheet that is printed out after 
> the scores are entered. This would remove the requirement to print score 
> sheets and make the process run a little faster. The only thing the 
> judge would need to do is count up his scores at the end of a flight to 
> make sure he has the right number of scores, this would serve as a quick 
> cross check. This process would completely remove the need to look down 
> because there is nothing but a blank strip of paper to look at. Some 
> judges like to see the list of maneuvers that are to be flown before the 
> flight so we could deal with this by just posting an enlarged call card 
> just behind the pilots that the judges can see, this would allow them to 
> review the list between flights.
> 
> Please share your thoughts on this idea...
> 
> Also, I think it would be real cool to develop an iPhone scoring 
> application, lets call it iScore. We could run the entire contest from a 
> couple of iPhones and upload all the results to a web site and make it 
> all publicly available. This would enable anyone to log on and see the 
> status at any time, we could make a paperless process except for the 
> strips of paper the judges write the raw scores on....
> 
> --Gordon
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