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From: DYugo at aol.com
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 15:48:35 UTC
I was going to shut up about this, but I can't take it any more. I don't think anyone else is going to speak up, so I might as well do so myself. It is too bad that the fine caliber of personel in the IAC does not extend to the top of the organization. It is bad enough that the results of a contest get screwed up; bad enough to abridge the rules by allowing changes after the scores have left not only the scoring room but the contest site and everybody else's sight as well; bad enough to have a supposedly approved but neverthless brainless computer scoring program that doesn't do the most fundamental edits; but for our leader to praise the people responsible merely because they admitted their error is unbelievable. It seems to me they took the easy way out, being able, with a few clicks of the keyboard, to erase their mistake. I was told, a week after the contest was over, that the problem occurred with the Known flight. I thought I was 130 points ahead after the known, and could afford a desirable but unnecessary interruption in the freestyle. That was a mistake, I see now. Can I get that mistake back? The difficult course of action would have been to tell the competitor who discovered the problem that he or she should have checked their scores earlier, and not to expiate their guilt by negating the results that were accepted by all at the contest.. What is the statute of limitations on scoring errors? Can anyone, after returning home and casually perusing their scores in front of the fire, discover that an incorrect K was entered somewhere, and demand a recount? Did I deserve to win that contest? I don't know. I was the only one to fly a recognizable Unknown. Other than that, there are all sorts of mistakes made at a contest (sometimes even by scoring judges) and all I know is that the winner is the one who, at the conclusion of the contest, after following the rules, ends up with the highest score. Let's face it, folks, winning or losing a contest does not mean that anyone is a better or worse pilot or human being. It didn't mean that when I was in first and it still doesn't mean it now that I am in second. Mistakes can happen, and if it happens to my detriment and I don't catch it within the protest period, well then too bad for me. What IS important is predictability and consistency in contest operation, and the banquet-time good feelings that come both with winning and, if not a winner, with gracious acceptance and the determination to do better next time. As for constructive criticism, something MUST be done to correct these scoring programs and to revise the IAC rules to stipulate what should be done in these circumstances. Maybe when dealing with the U.S. team selection, accuracy is mandatory. And now that I've gotten most of this off my chest, I seem to myself a little of a whiner. But this might happen to someone else, and next time to you stand up and accept the applause a trophy for your winning performance, you'd best have them mail it to you after Price Waterhouse and Linda Hamer have approved it. Dennis Yugo - IAC #6746 so far
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