you guessed it, NO WIND ((*&^(*^)(@&#)(*)).
Yesterday we had a really good day, with 18 flights and 54 matches. The students were enthusiast, all 18 teams sailed six times, changing boats became a smooth routine and only a very few minor repair glitches. Driving home with a fellow umpire yesterday, I was very happy with how things were going. And pleased the ladder system was working so well.
The committee really meant business and we cranked flights out like there was no tomorrow.
Well there wasn't!
Stuck with the results from yesterday we were asked to look at the results and come up with a recommodation for solving the ties. Ties? Yea, many ties! This apparently is the side effect of the ladder system. Five teams on second place with four points each. Six teams on 7th Place with three points, four teams on 13th place with two points and two teams on 17th place with one point.I hope that this gets better when the ladder progresses....
In the mean time we were forced to concluded that nor Appendix C, nor Appendix A and even Appendix D, gives an adequate rule for resolving those ties:
- we looked at matches sailed against each other - not every one tied, had those...
- we looked at how many rungs were gained - Team 5 kept hitting top rung...
- we looked at relative positions, which didn't change...
- we looked at ....
So we ended up doing just that. We held a draw between four teams (one team withdrew after these results were published) for the third and second place prizes. Most unsatisfactory, but there you have it.
I would very much appreciate some help in solving this problem. If any of you have any suggestions how to do this, please leave a comment!!
Oh, and I got a suggestion how to improve the sheet:
By combining the cells above the column, you get a neat separation, after the resultsI'll change that, in the next one, with an extra line.
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