05-13-2020, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by BEC
Jason,
Sorry....it appears I muffed the copy/paste of the link. Here it is not hiding behind other words: https://www.nar.org/nrc-scoreboard/
The NAR a couple of years ago completely reformatted competition in an effort to encourage more participation and now, as I say, it only takes a couple of people (and a bit of advance notice to post it on the NAR site) to set up a meet in which any of the NRC events can be flown and scores reported back to this national scorecard.
So it's not quite a solo postal contest, but it's much closer to that than NAR competitions have been in the past.
The jury is still out on whether the reformat has really helped more people do contest events, but it's early yet, and the virus business has reset those efforts both for the NRC contest year and NARAM-62, which has been pushed off until 2021.
(I fixed the link in my other post, too.) |
Thank you--it opened for me this time! If nothing else, the reformat removes an excuse from any nervous folks who might say, "I couldn't start or host an event, because one requires more people than I could probably persuade to come." The new arrangement would enable even a single teacher at a school, with just a handful of interested kids, to have an official meet, which sounds like a positive development. (If memory serves, the German version of the Hand-Launched Glider--HLG--Postal Contest Rules [John Kaufmann's book, "Flying Hand-Launched Gliders" https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Se...d+Gliders&isbn= , covers both the "regular" and the German rules] were designed with the same situation in mind--having many fewer participants in a given Postal Contest.) |