King Mt. 2011 competition results

The 2011 King Mt. competition was held on July 11-16, 2011.

  • Open Class:
  • Recreational Class:

    Glider Type Table (multiply raw miles by this factor to get points):

    • 1.21 - Single Surface
    • 1.00 - King Post
    • 0.83 - Topless
    • 0.73 - Rigid

    Scorekeeper's notes:

    This year is the first time we've used a new/different system for calculating scores. In the past, a custom-built application handled all of the calculations and reports. But, that system has become cumbersome to use and it could not handle a task that included turnpoints.

    To try and make the scoring more easily done by non-programers, I built a system that uses Google Earth to mark turnpoints and landings, as well as calculate distances flown. That distance information is then entered into an Excel spreadsheet where points are calculated and reports formated.

    In addition to the scoring system being new this year, this was the first year for the team that ran the meet, including me as score keeper.

    As might be expected, there were a few glitches. But, they were not (as far as I know) problems with GE or the spreadsheet. Instead, they were the ususal culprits: bad data from the pilots, and mistakes entering that data into the spreadsheet. And to top off the mistakes, I failed to use the "top-4" worksheet on Day 5, instead using all 5 days' results.

    Because of this, the final standings were not correct at the time we held the awards ceremony, and some pilots received trophies that they will have to hand over to those who ended up on top of the final (corrected) standings.

    I offer my appologies to those who for a short while experienced the ecstacy of holding a Lisa Tate trophy, but are now suffering the agony of having to give it up.

    Next year will be better, now that the bugs are out of the system and the system operators. To help make sure there are no lingering bugs in the system, I've provided as much information as I can so that you can trace your results through the daily scores, to the cumulative scores and the top-4 final results. Be sure to check your distance flown each day (measured in yards for accuracy), along with the glider type you flew that day. Then, review the top-4 worksheets to make sure the addition works. Don't worry so much about the national points - it is the King points that matter.

    King Points are simply raw miles times a glider-type multiplier to give adjusted miles. We did not use Bonus LZ's this year, and no one received penalty points for landing outside the route corridors.

    National Points are adjusted miles, normalized to 100 (top pilot of the day gets 100, while others get a percentage of that), and then multiplied by the square root of the number of pilots who flew that day. The idea behind the square root is to give, over time, those pilots who fly small meets a leg up over large meets (square root is logarithmic instead of linear).

    A note to competitors:
    Please download the Google Earth placemarks and review your landing coordinates for each flight.

    If you have a tracklog in the placemark collection, I'd love for you to send me a short description of the flight so that I can include it in the placemark.

    And, if you can send me a short description of each day's task, I can add that to the collection also.

    If you have a track log that you would like to add to the collection, please send it to me in whatever format you have it. My email address is "erniecamacho at comcast.net"

    If you find any errors, please let me know.

    A note about flight paths in Google Earth:
    If you turn on a flight path placemark and it does not show, you may need to adjust the time slider.

    If a time slider appears at the top-left of your GE window, you'll notice that the slider itself is in two parts, a right-hand full pointer and a left-hand partial pointer. You have to separate the two, taking the left side to the left of the time scale and the right to the right side of the time scale. Then you'll be able to see the entire path.

    Google Earth will allow you to play a 'tour' of the path where only a small segment (defined by the two pointer halves) is visible. We want to see the entire path so we encompass the entire time line.

    - Ernie Camacho - 2011 King scorekeeper