ORIGINAL: Digger44
Phaedrus-MMVI
Works nicely for 10 figure sequences. Now tell me how you handle an Unknown with 12 figures???
Dean Bird
1 point deduction for each maneuver that isn't presented in a place that isn't easy for me to judge. If I get down to zero, I stop.
I've never seen a 12 maneuver Unknown, but I guess anything's possible.
Or you could devide the 10 points by 12 and deduct 8.33 points per violation and round up to the nearest whole number. To much trouble though. I still like one point per maneuver modified , until you run out of points. [sm=thumbs_up.gif]
It's as good as anything else I suppose. It really is nothing more than an impression score written into the rules, so it is what it is. Time will tell if it does anything. The alleged purpose of the rule is to reduce footprint, we'll see if it does that.
The single thing that could be done to reduce footprint is to remove rollers from Knowns. Put them in Unknowns if you want them. Rollers are flown HUGE by everyone, they consume vast amounts of real estate the way we fly them. Plus since they are in the Known they get flown at least 6 times in every contest by every pilot. 50 guys at a contest and you have 300 times that you can wander over the horizon. Put them just in the Unknown and that number is cut to 50. Makes flying them well more important as well since they are in the Unknown, which you can't drop. Plus they take a LONG time to fly in general and using them only in Unknowns would actually speed up contests. Another radical lunatic fringe idea to be sure.