Seeded Man on Man (SMOM)

SEEDED MAN ON MAN EVENT

Sunday, September 3, 2006  Farragut Contest.

SMOM will be a fun new event for us at Farragut. This format places flyers of relatively the same skill levels in flight groups flying and scoring with each-other in the same relative air. 

We will use the placing from Saturday to determine Sundays first round flight groups. Subsequent round groups are determined by the overall placing. Pilots placing 1,2,3,4 would be a flight group 5,6,7,8 would be the next group.  Each group is scored man on man normalized to 1000 pts.

NOTES;

Don’t be concerned with the complexity of flight order and frequency conflicts. I get to do all that for you. You just need to be ready to fly when called.

We will launch pilots as quickly as safety allows. Pilots may have an assistant operate the winch for them. Launching in groups puts the group in relatively the same air. Task is 8 minutes plus Hunski landing score.  Flight time plus landing raw scores will be compared within the flight group and highest raw score receives 1000 points for that round. Other raw scores within the group are compared to the leaders raw score and normalized as a % of the leaders score. IE: The best time and landing within a flight group is 7:40 and 80 landing = 460 flight points + 80 landing = 540 raw score. This pilot would receive 1000 contest points. Pilot 2 scores 7:20 and 60 landing = 440 flight points + 60 landing = 500 raw points. 500 divided by 540 X 1000 =  926 contest points.   In our typical contests pilots scores are normalized to a perfect score so these raw scores would net 931 and 862 respectively.

SMOM puts pilots with similar skill levels flying with each other EVERY round. MOM is the only event where you can out-fly your closest competition and influence their score.

You have the opportunity to climb up the standings with a possible 1000 points by winning your flight group. The higher up the “seed” you climb, the tougher the competition. 

All pilots are in one class; OPEN. You can still choose to fly RES or 2M class models in the open class and qualify for NWSS Season Champion RES of 2M points. Highest placing RES model wins RES class etc. 

1.    The goal is to have all pilots flying against one another in one, single class. Eliminating frequency conflicts allows the possibility of any pilot to fly against any other pilot in the contest as dictated by the running seed. If frequency conflicts do occur, every effort will be made to eliminate any conflicts between pilots who could potentially end up in the highest scoring flight groups. It may be possible that conflicts will occur but pilots will fly in seeded MOM and highest scoring pilots will still face most of the highest seeds during the event. Please bring alternate frequency options with you. In case of an unavoidable frequency conflict within a flight group, we will move the lower scoring pilot to the next lower seeded flight group.

2.    There will be 5 winches. Each winch will be numbered and winch assignment will be drawn at random before each flight group launches. Farragut will accommodate four winches with a back-up winch for line breaks etc.

3.    The number of pilots in each flight group will be four or more. We will allow pop offs within reason at Farragut. Our events are inclusive. If a pilot repeatedly pops the CD will meet with them and figure it out.  If two launches fail we will re-launch the group. This rarely happens.

4.    The number of flight groups is determined by dividing the total number of pilots registered by the number of available winches. Don’t sweet the odd number, we can launch five if need be.

5.    We will use Saturdays overall standings (regardless of pilot or aircraft class) to determine groups for Sunday first round. Lowest scoring group from Saturday will be first to launch flight group on Sunday.

6.    When a flight group is called up, each pilot will draw from a collection of golf balls, which are labeled to represent each of the winches. The number on the drawn labeled golf ball will assign that winch to the pilot who drew it. As far a possible a pilot will not have to lead off more than once. Score cards will be what we usually use and groups will be reassigned each round by an assistant. Pilots score is based on best score for that group with top score receiving 1000 points for that round and others receiving a score as compared to the top score. Seeding for round two and all subsequent rounds is determined by the order of each pilot's place in the overall standings for Sunday. Lowest scoring pilots fly in the first flight group, the highest scoring pilots fly in the last flight group. This allows pilots to fly in flight groups who are seeded together in the overall standings. There are no throw-out rounds.

7.    A minimum of three rounds is needed to cancel out any early round aberrations.

8.    Score cards can be arranged in the order of current standing at the end of each round to help assign seeded flight groups for the next round. The score cards can be attached in the order of current standings (in rows) to a score board that will allow pilots to easily see the current standings, as well as to determine which flight group they will be in for the next round. Each row on the score board will represent one flight group and will have listed all the pilots in that flight group. If there should be any frequency conflicts, the score cards of pilots on the same frequency will be color-coded in a prominent manner to help eliminate the accidental placement of any frequency conflicts in the same flight group.

9.    After round two, it will be easy to determine the first (lowest scoring) flight group for the next round even when the last (highest scoring) flight group is still in the air. Thus, the first flight group for the next round can be called up before the entire seed is determined for that next round. This will help keep the contest moving along. We may launch another group while the previous group is still airborne. Mass simultaneous launches are impressive but for safety reasons launches will be staggered by 5-10 seconds as determined by the launch master. We will launch pilots as soon as safety allows per the winch master. We should be able to launch 4 pilots safely within 45 seconds at Farragut.

One class; fly your best plane.  you can still fly a RES or Two Meter model without a conflict for NWSS scores. Note that a RES plane won the day at Lewiston and a 2-M won the day at Farragut. NWSS scores are based on the best score for the day regardless of pilot or model class.

MOM flying is fun and exciting and introduces new challenges of strategy. Pilots who are not flying have the opportunity to observe others in a flight group and gain from their experience. The event also moves along nicely. SMOM is the preferred event in other parts of the country. They fly this at the AMA Nationals with over 100 pilots.  Please call or email with any questions.

flyguy@adelphia.net

208-659-4747

Guy

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