On Monday, 23 July 2012 08:06:58 UTC-6, (unknown) wrote:
> The combined 13.5 meter and 1-26 Nationals was a really well run, fun and safe contest. The 1-26s won several days in less than perfect soaring conditions. It was especially good that several young men flew (and flew well) the contest (and provided the weather briefing).
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> I am looking forward to next year.
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> Bill Snead
> 6W

It's great you guys had a good contest. I'm especially glad to see both 1-26 and 13.5 meter come together and I hope this format thrives and expands. (We had 6 PW5 show up for the sky soaring weekend contest, so I hope there is some new blood for next year.)

From this distance though, a few points. According to the contest reports, there was one injury requiring medical attention. And one pilot scored a finish under 126 rules even though he landed short of the airport. Is this "safe?"

Also from a distance, the fact of no scoresheet is a bit of an annoyance. OK, you're flying 1954 gliders, but that doesn't mean we have to have 1954 scoring! The one cumulation of scores posted on day 6 left more questions open than answered. For example, why does every finisher have exactly 2:00.00 time on day 5? Clearly the poor scorer is doing a lot of fudging to get 1 26 rules and conventional scoring software to work together. Thanks to Tony final scores are hand copied to the daily report, but no final daily scoresheets to let us see how people did what they did.

The practice of posting scores, which is expected for all sanctioned contests, is important to contestants as well as the larger community can see what's going on and check if it's right.

John Cochrane

It my understanding that the 1-26 class was scored using SeeYou Competition.. One facility available and integrated with SeeYou Competition is the ability to post to soaringspot.com, a site maintained by Naviter (developers of SeeYou) for posting contest results. I would suggest that the daily and final scores be posted there and a simple link in the SSA daily report be included.

Not sure if there is a charge for a small contest like this utilizing soaringspot.com but would be simple test.

Ron Gleason