US Rules change needed for devaluation of contest day

On Sunday, August 24, 2014 3:31:29 PM UTC-7, wrote:
While drop a day might be interesting, it doesn't really apply in my mind for fixing what we encountered the last day of Nephi. Many of us truly could not get high enough to get out on course and have any kind of fighting chance to fly the task. The thunderstorm that swept through killed that for 80%+ of us in the last class to launch.



I took 3 tows just to make sure I gave it every possible effort to get up and out. Ron (CD) did a great job on the ground making some hard decisions with little info or time to decide and he sure tried for everyone to get a chance to fly. He then did a great job in analyzing the protest and flight data from everyone and made the right call for throwing out the day in my opinion. Yes, there is a new protest on the throwing out the day, so who knows what the final outcome is, but I firmly believe it should be discarded..



I think drop a day has its place but not for days where 80%+ of the class can't even get up high enough to get out on course after trying for hours to get up...



Bruno - B4

Bruno, why don't you think the Worst Day Adjustment rule would handle the situation on the last day at Nephi? It seems to me adopting 11.4.4 would have covered this well, without requiring other changes to rules such as the definition of a competitor (as John points out there are reasons that "Competitor" is defined as it currently is), or devaluation formulas.

As for the validity of the day, IMO 11.1.3 is clear that the day was valid. There is no requirement in the rules that a certain percentage of entrants be able to get a start.