Tobias1
Heliman
Location: Germany
| Hi,
John, you seem to be right, obviously HE (as Wayne calls him) saw some flaws in the results, but noone could explain or even show them until now.
I followed all the results and calculated them on my own too, and I found no problems, especially no problems that would have been solved by using the old system.
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| What this meant is that rather than averaging to the average (completed round) pilot score per flight line per day you'd actually be only averaging to the top 20% pilots scores per flight line per day - which is far too small a number and why the scores looked so odd.
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Why at all is that a too small number??? In the "good old days" we referred only to ONE guy and awarded him with 1000 points, so 20% (or at least 6 each flightline) is much better!! And again: please show me, where the scores looked odd, I think, they didn´t!
Another reason for the 20%-system was the comparability of preliminary flights and fly-offs. This really works fine (or would have worked fine, if HE had not interfered). I calculated the whole competition with several methods, especially the both used in Poland.
There are luckily only small difference, but they aren´t small from the point of view of Fabio, Dwight and also the French-team, who lost Bronce-medal to Austria.
Next it seems, that the calculations of the preliminary rounds have not been done correct by taking in account only completed flights, but they used ALL flights as reference (even Chris´ flights, who obviously wasn´t in Poland, but in the resultlist)!
Also (as John wrote) the calculation of the prelim scores to be carried on to the fly-offs was done without any mathematical logic nor reference to the rules. Luckily this had no influence on the final results.
But finally and most important to me: How can it happen, that an important rule like the calculation system can be changed DURING the competition by one (ore maybe two) persons??????
This rule was installed as a local rule by the CIAM plenary meeting, which is the highest authority of the CIAM.
I doubt, that all of what happened was legal and I also doubt, that this story will end here...
Tobias Schulz |
he flew back to the UK on the same flight and then onward to the USA today.
