[NSRCA-dist8] Contest Scoring Ideas

[J N Hiller]

The strips of paper sound fine. I don't know anything about iPhones.
Jim

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[mailto:nsrca-dist8-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Gordon Anderson
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 4:08 PM
To: AK, ID, MT, OR, WA, WY
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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