I'm sorry, but I am still trying to get my head around a scoring system that has a person who was in the top 3 in the prelims, the semis, and the first two flights of the finals ends up in seventh place based on the final 2 flights. Did he crash? Hit a judge with his plane?? How does that happen?
And a guy who was never in the top 5 for all those same rounds ends up in second place.
Just surmising, but could it be something to do with personal motivation?
With the system as I understood it, the finals result would be set by taking the best one of the two F09s, and the best one of the two unknowns.
Since CPLR won the first F09, and the first unknown, (and having won the semis), he couldn't be beaten,whatever happened in the last two rounds(one each of F09 and unknown 2).
Perhaps it would be better in future if the finals result was taken as the best 3 out of the 4 rounds flown by each finalist?