ORIGINAL: Phaedrus-MMVI
This is a totally subjective rule for which no defined criteria exist. Judges can do what they want to. ..... A contestant has no method to challenge a score he has received since there are no criteria for it. Each judge is free to assign a score based on their own interpretation of how well the airspace was used.
Yep, just like the presentation score. Any "subjective" judging has and will cause issues at contests. Maybe not an all out argument with a judge or a CD but LOTS of behind the flight line comments and complaints.
I had the opportunity to judge a round at a contest during the presentation score days. I later that day scribed for another judge for that same class. I got to see all the presentaion scores and they were all over the board. Same pilots, same style of flying but a huge variety of "subjective" scores. A friend of mine got a Zero from one judge on the presentation score and a Ten from the other.....???? Don't see how this airpace control score will be any different. But.......it is what it is
Oh, by the way, one of the goals of the presentation score was to prevent the pilots from flying "Big". As most of us think back, it didn't work.