On Dec 18, 4:28 pm, Chip Bearden wrote:
Come on, guys, play along. What I was "griping" about was the prospect
of arriving back really low, hitting the new finish cylinder just
above the trees and then dumping it into the last field before the
barbed wire fence around the airport. BB implies (well, he goes
further than that; you be the judge) that you would get distance
points only AND get banged with a low finish penalty. Depending on how
the new rule is implemented, you've scored a finish time because if
you'd floated across the fence, you would have completed the task. But
since you're sitting in the dirt staring up at the real finishers, the
rules say you haven't finished the task. So...distance points for the
non-completion minus a penalty for the low finish; in other words,
significantly fewer points that the guy who landed in the field behind
you who didn't get to the cylinder?

I'm not making this up; read below from BB's article (emphasis
added).

"...the 70 points you will lose on the finish, COMBINED WITH the new
larger
distance points, mean that there is less to be lost by landing in
that last nice field on this side of the trees."

Chip Bearden
ASW 24 "JB"
U.S.A.

It's in the sentance structure- He's really comparing the score of a 1
ft short finish to a
missed cylinder speed finish. The spread is less than before.
If you don't get the finish, you don't get the low finish penalty.
John's "social engineering" is intended to take away scoring
incentives for marginal
finishes.
Winter must be upon us.
UH