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Does anyone use the Club Class?
"Andy" wrote in message ... On Feb 2, 1:53 pm, "HL Falbaum" wrote: "rlovinggood" wrote in message ... Cordele is hosting a Club Class at Cordele in 2010. We have moved the date to a bit later to try to avoid the bad effects of El Nino (and a few other reasons). We have Sports Class too and we will blend the Club Class into the Sports Class if we must, but so far, it looks good to go. Come sign up-We have the "A" for the staff.-we're planning a good time for all who come. Hartley Falbaum Competition Manager Region V South, Cordele, GA Early days - but here is the current contestant sign-up by class: Club - 8 15M - 4 Sports - 3 Standard - 2 18M - 1 If you get 40 total entries that will be 8 on average per class, if you combined down to 3 classes you'd be at 11-12 per class or 50% higher, but inevitably some classes will have more and others less. I find 4-6 gliders in a class (can't have less than 4) a lot less enjoyable and competitive than 8-10, so there's a tradeoff, but I'd be a lot less inclined to go to a Regionals where there are barely enough gliders signed up to make my class viable. The idea of splitting/dividing classes depending on the entries can make sense so long as you don't cave into pilot pressure and split a class such that one of the split out classes has only 4-6 gliders in it. I would find that frustrating. 9B Andy; It is early yet, and most of the Cordele "Regulars" are not yet signed up. I agree--the more per class the better. If I recall correctly, the 18-15-std can be combined as needed. If we have to combine Club-Sports we can make the tasking "interesting" for all. Nonetheless--the Club Class wants to race for sure! So-let's go for it and see what happens. Hartley Falbaum CM Reg V So 2010 |
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Does anyone use the Club Class?
I keep reading this thread and I must say there are some here who have
a real competitive class to go to (e.g. ASW-27 owners) but they refuse to give the same right to Club Class gliders owners in the U.S. It is time to stop treating Club Class owners as lesser citizens of this community just because they don’t have fancy gliders. We already restrict classes. No 18 m gliders show up for the 15 m Nationals. So what is the problem with restricting higher performance gliders from Club Class? Maybe we should combine open, 18 m and 15 m class and call it a Super Sports Class and do away with the existing classes. I can see the uprising this would cause. I am not advocating this. I am simply making a point here. If we have Club Class Nationals on the east coast we will have plenty of people participating and Sports class will not die out. I am an ex-club class glider owner moving to a different class. I have no interest of my own here. |
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Does anyone use the Club Class?
On Feb 3, 3:38*pm, AK wrote:
I keep reading this thread and I must say there are some here who have a real competitive class to go to (e.g. ASW-27 owners) but they refuse to give the same right to Club Class gliders owners in the U.S. It is time to stop treating Club Class owners as lesser citizens of this community just because they don’t have fancy gliders. We already restrict classes. No 18 m gliders show up for the 15 m Nationals. So what is the problem with restricting higher performance gliders from Club Class? Maybe we should combine open, 18 m and 15 m class and call it a Super Sports Class and do away with the existing classes. I can see the uprising this would cause. I am not advocating this. I am simply making a point here. If we have Club Class Nationals on the east coast we will have plenty of people participating and Sports class will not die out. I am an ex-club class glider owner moving to a different class. I have no interest of my own here. I don't think the FAI guys are as hard over about that as you think - it isn't racing unless you are racing against someone and more is better than less. I see a fair number of contest with combined FAI classes. The main reason I see people resisting combining classes is they are trying to maximize their odds of getting on the podium - but usually those victories are a bit hollow. 9B |
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