F3K Nationals Results
Mark Stockton
I've posted the F3K nationals results including round by round detail
and a couple of photos on the F3K blog. http://f3k-rsa.blogspot.com
Sadly I havn't got any really good F3K photos, if anyone has some nice
pics (and you don't mind them being posted on the blog) could you
please forward them to me.
BTW - While going through the raw data I picked up some scoring
irregularities. However I re-scored the entire event and only the
scores change, not the final placing's.
Regards
Mark
Dave Greer
find it was recording issues rather than number crunching.....
I must admit I find it harsh (very) on the pilot for Mark to exclude
scores where the timer helper logged only the grand total of the various
flight seconds, rather than flight by flight - the total seconds do
remain the same - that might be something that the F3K community have
to thrash out amongst thermselves.
Kind regards
Dave
Dave Greer
knowledge of F3K - the explanations from Mark below make perfect sense
and means that there is more to it than simple accurate addition :
"Conrads score in Round 4 could not be 225 seconds. This was the
incremental ladder task working out the possible scores he could have
got 210 or 300. I assume what happened is he did not understand the task
briefing and flew 15 seconds as the first flight not 30 seconds. I can't
confirm this as his raw scores wern't provided, just a total. Here I
assume pilot / caller error.
However the scoring formula should have highlighted a problem.
In the same round I went up to 105 seconds, however my second last
flight of 90 seconds was not credited. I suspect there wern't enough
fields to capture all the flights. This is the most significant error I
noticed as it buries Craig and results in him and Anton ending up a lot
closer over all.
In the last round Anton is credit with a 252 second max, although the
best the rules allow for is 240. The scoring program should have reduced
his score by
12 seconds.
Given that there are only 8 F3K tasks, I'm going to look at developing
either a program or a spreadsheet that will take these into account. "
Kind regards
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Greer
Sent: 26 June 2007 13:58
To: 'soar...@googlegroups.com'; mg...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: F3K Nationals Results
Whew, leapt in to the arithmetic instead of reading the blog first to
find it was recording issues rather than number crunching.....
I must admit I find it harsh (very) on the pilot for Mark to exclude
scores where the timer helper logged only the grand total of the various
flight seconds, rather than flight by flight - the total seconds do
remain the same - that might be something that the F3K community have
to thrash out amongst thermselves.
Kind regards
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: soar...@googlegroups.com [mailto:soar...@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Mark Stockton
Sent: 26 June 2007 13:07
To: mg...@yahoogroups.com; soar...@googlegroups.com
Subject: F3K Nationals Results
Mark Stockton
I'd just like to point out that this is the very first time that the new
"official" F3K rules have been used in this country. So it would be completely
unrealistic to expect there to be no mistakes at all. In fact given how
complex the scoring can be and how every single task is scored differently I'm
impressed at how few there where. Proof of this is that the mistakes do NOT
change the overall result.
Regards
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's
limits."
-- Albert Einstein
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