Effective
January 2010
Red type indicates changes added in 2010
1. To help
members develop flying skills by competing against an equally skilled group.
2. To allow
advancement to a higher level skill group.
3. To
challenge all members to develop their design, building, and flying skills.
RMSA
usually schedules at least one contest per month, March through November. Tasks
are chosen to provide variety and challenge for all skill levels. At the
beginning of each year, the Board of Directors normally schedules nine regular monthly contests to
be counted toward Open class season points. The Board or individual contest
directors may from time to time also request or schedule additional specialty
contests. All AMA/RMSA sanctioned Open class unrestricted contests will count
toward season point totals and awards. RMSA also schedules at least 4 contests for Hand Launch class for HLG season championship
points. RMSA may also conduct season awards programs for other classes of
events such as 2-Meter and Rudder/Elevator/Spoiler classes as determined by the
Board of Directors at the beginning of each season. Specialty contests, fun flys, etc. are
non-point events.
The Colorado Challenge Cup is normally held in July and
sanctioned by the club holding the cup for the year and is a counting event
regardless of the club holding the event.
F3J in the Rockies is considered a national
event and may be counted as a national contest.
To encourage AMA members to participate in national
level competitions, any national contest spanning two or more days with 30 or
more contestants may be counted towards season total points.
Contests
must be of a class compatible with the RMSA class they will be counted against,
e.g. Open Thermal Duration (including F3J and F3B) for the RMSA Open class, or
HLG for the RMSA HLG title.
NO
MORE THAN ONE NON-RMSA CONTEST CAN BE COUNTED TOWARDS SEASON POINTS
TOTALS!!
Novice
New members with limited flying experience. Novice pilots are limited to
Rudder-Elevator-Spoiler sailplanes. Pilots flying full-house sailplanes are
automatically promoted to Sportsman.
Sportsman
Members with contest experience and have advanced by contest points.
Master
Member having advanced through contest achievement from other classes.
New Member Classification
At AMA/RMSA contests, all members are expected to
identify themselves as novice, sportsman or masters pilots based on the above
guidelines. New members should elect to place themselves in the Sportsman class
if they are accomplished RC pilots (power or glider) or have had significant
prior contest experience. The Novice class is intended to encourage new flyers
to enter the club contests. New members with vast contest experience may
petition the Board to be placed directly into the Master class.
Reclassification
Members
may petition the board for consideration of changing classification either up
or down based on extenuating circumstances. The board will examine the
merits of the petition and make a recommendation based on fairness to the
member and other competitors.
Scoring
All club contests will be normalized to 1000 points. For single day contests that have a preliminary and final stages, only the normalized
preliminary scores will be used for contest season points. Two day F3J contests that are to be counted
will use the club approved algorithm for computing the final normalized scores. This algorithm is calculated as follows:
·
All pilots that do not make the finals receive their normalized
preliminary scores.
·
Normalized scores for the pilots that make the finals shall be
calculated as follows:
o
The preliminary normalized score of the last pilot to make the flyoffs shall be recorded as “base”.
o
The scores for the finals (FS) shall be calculated as a normalized
percentage – the winning pilot gets a 1 and the rest of the pilots receive
their percentage of his score. For
example – if a pilot received only half of the score of the winning pilot they
would receive “.50”.
o
The available points (AP) shall be calculated as 1000 - Base
o
Pilot finals points (FP) shall be calculated as FS*AP
o
Contest score for club points shall be calculated as FP+Base for each pilot
Class points are given as follows;
1st place in class = 3 points
2nd place in class = 2 points
3rd place in class = 1 point
Advancement to the next class requires the following:
1.
Novice to Sportsman = 12 points and 1 class win or 3 class wins.
2.
Sportsman to Master = 21 points and 2 class wins or 4 class wins.
In all cases there must be at least three competitors in
your class to be counted towards advancement points. No class points are
carried forward at advancement, however class points
are carried forward to the next contest year.
Normalized
scores from each contest will be used to develop advancement points and annual
awards. Annual awards shall be given at least through third place in each
class. Only the six best Open contests are counted towards annual Open points.
For Handlaunch only the best 3 contests are
counted. In addition only one of the special noted contests may be
counted toward the six best.
The
RMSA club champion shall be recognized as a true champion pilot, showing both
skills as a pilot and the willingness to compete against his peers inside and
outside of RMSA. Points for the club champion trophy shall be computed
from the total of the normalized, documented scores from all RMSA normally scheduled contests entered during the year
by that competitor. Normalized points from outside contests must be documented,
and submitted to the club scorekeeper prior to November 15 for that contest
year. Annual awards shall be given in the class where the pilot spent most of
the year. Example: If the pilot advances from Sportsman to Master by virtue of
contest points during mid-year, he/she will be eligible for an award only in
the class where he/she spent the majority of that year's club contests.
In the event of a tie for any standings, co-champions
will be declared.