Hi Apereira, the discussion here has not been about fliers outside the top 30 being judged more harshly rather it has been to respond to a request from MUPS for some personal observations about the event. A bunch of guys have tried to do that. I am surprised that the judge you spoke to said that CPLR was "one of the few that got every maneuver in perfect positioning on the box" my observations were that CPLR and a number of the others were flying well beyond 175m so I'm not sure how he could say that. Additionally the tall manouvres had to beyond the 60 degree vertical line (the Square 8 in Unk 2 comes to mind) they were just incredibly high and did not seem to be penalised.

Did you watch the finals, are you able to comment on these points? Did you think the Stall Turns you observed pivoted on the C of G? More than happy for you to contradict me if you saw it another way. I'm sincerely keen to understand the logic in judging at this level, as I mentioned in earlier posts I couldn't see how the scores were allocated based on the F3A guide.