Potential Club Class (US Sports Class) World Team Selection Policy Changes

On Sep 27, 11:38*am, Andrzej Kobus wrote:

All depends on the CD and weather forecast accuracy. If part of a task
can't be flown on a ridge and weather turns out to be worse than
predicted then you may have a situation where a Club Class glider will
not be able to round all the defined points but 18 m glider will. The
can happen. The point is you can handicap all you want you can create
very complex task setting rules but none of it may work to equalize
glider inequalities if you fly 3-5 days. Here in the east this year
has been terrible. We sometimes go weeks without reasonable weather.

Yeah, you can't win if you can't fly. I think it is always incumbent
of the CD to task such that all competitors have a fair opportunity to
compete on as level a playing field as possible. You can't really
write many rules for that - maybe guidelines or shared wisdom. On a
short contest weather and tasking can skew either for or against any
particular type of glider.

I think a system is needed in the U.S. where everyone finds a decent
place to compete. Club class pilots should have their own class to
compete, and perhaps the best place to start with is Nationals since
this kind of start would have the list impact on Sports Class
participation at the regional level. We also need to be mindful of the
excellent service to the community and US Team that Karl and others
provide in Duos. We can't destroy that. I am sure the Club Class
pilots can organize another contest themselves.

Agreed. Trying to divide up a bunch of dissimilar gliders into
groupings that are big enough that you get real competition and
similar enough that you get "fair" competition with all the fagaries
of global class definitions and US ownership patterns - it's just hard.