Daryl, Thanks for your comments. You make an interesting, but rather obscure point. There is clearly an issue of timing accuracy that needs to be addressed under the current format. My expectation would be that flying several rounds will resolve the discrepency you describe with more dependance on flying the time task consistently than any reliance on landing scores will provide. Do you really expect that there would be such a discrepancy after 7 or 10 rounds of flying? I also think it needs to be stated that there are more participants in any worthwhile contest than those consistently posting times within 1/2 second of the target flight after flight. Whatever scoring scheme is used should provide them with a fair way to measure their own performance against other similar flyers as well as to serve the elite competitors such as yourself.
To the extent that your scenario is relevent, the real question then becomes: Is the landing task the right way to resolve such discrepencies? Also, isn't the real issue you raise scoring beyond the resolution of the timing technology? Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daryl Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tim Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "John Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 3:44 PM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Contests, Landings, etc. > Gotta be careful here guys. When trying to > de-emphasize landings, we usually make some other > aspect of the task hyper-critical. > > John, you're right on the money. Tim, doesn't sound > like you're a contest flyer. Guys who fly to 9:46's > don't win contests where I'm from. > > Tim, in your scenario.... let's assume rounding: > > A 9:59.49 100 point landing loses to a 9:59.50 0 point > landing. Is this fair? You've overemphasized the > timer, his thumb, his ability to stop the clock right > as the plane touches the ground, etc.... > > I remember a contest up in No Cal. It was a huge in or > out landing. I hit the ground exactly as my timer said > 0. Unfortunately, he wasn't looking at his watch as he > counted down, and I was off time. > > Another contest in Riverside. It was a 2 day. Same > deal, they tried to de-emphasize the landing. The > spots were super small, and the best you could do was > a 5 point landing bonus. The hit for time was more > than 5 points per second. I decided to never even try > for a landing. I won that w/e without ever getting a > landing. Or trying to. > > Our contest formats have evolved I think to be a > relatively fair way of judging our soaring/energy > management skills. The only problem is we haven't > lengthened the tasks to keep up with the increased > performance of our models. > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
