Well stated John...I wholehearted agree.

Winscore was originally conceived as a "print on paper" scoring calculator to serve only those present at a soaring contest. This it does well and thanks to Guy Byars who many years ago volunteered to developed it and has kept it updated to reflect current SSA rules.

R.A.S.'ers should not make the mistake of expecting Winscore to provide something it was never designed or intended to provide.


UH clearly believes that what exists is "good enough" and that the ingrates should be satisfied. The Winscore-based scoring environment does do something more or less like what was intended in the horse and buggy days when there was no internet and the alternatives were few.

UH asserts that there are only a few folks who are interested in looking at files, and getting them the next day is just fine.

Having extensive experience with three scoring systems (Winscore, SeeYou and SGP) along with OLC what the US system provides is doesn't even come close to providing what the current standard of practice is.

At the contests I have officiated at (CD or Scorer), I have endeavored to use alternate and extraordinary means to provide posted scores within minutes of log submission, and to also provide simultaneous availability of logs via Google Drive (albeit not grouped by class .

My own opinion is that the immediacy of scores, logs and of uesable real-time tracking makes competing (even though it's not racing) much more interesting to both competitors and others.

QT