Author Topic: Combat at the Kalamazoo Tour 'd Michigan (Read 612 times)

Paul Smith · « **on:** May 11, 2008, 03:52:27 PM »

This was a first pass at flying a local breed of "sport plane combat" with "35-size" engines.

The outcome was:

Ed Brzys 2-0-1
Paul Smith 2-1-1
Jon Brzys 1-1
several flyers, 0-1

As were verified at the contest, the "gentleman's agreement" excludes engines like the Nelson and Fox Mark 3+. Jon didn't really fly that bladder job, it was just handy for the photo op.

Hopefully, from now on, we'll fly by "cuts-and-airtime", not "cuts alone", so as to preculde future tie scores.

john e. holliday · « **Reply #1 on:** May 12, 2008, 08:50:20 AM »

How many rounds are you flying? DOC Holliday

Just One-eye · « **Reply #2 on:** May 12, 2008, 12:22:43 PM »

It sure looks like a straight elimination pyramid to me, one loss and out.

Paul Smith · « **Reply #3 on:** May 12, 2008, 01:10:21 PM »

The basic concept of the T 'd M was just one flight in each event, 'cept combat, which was single elim. With seven events in one day, you can't go to extremes on any one.

We has six entries so we flew one round, then added a bye (by coin flipping) to get from a "final 3" to a "final 4".

Ed Brzys won the bye to the final.

Ed & tied in the final 1-to-1, using "cuts alone". At this point the management finally yielded to our requests and changed to "cuts & airtime". A good decision, since the flyoff was also 1-to-1 with a few seconds in Ed's favor.

Author Topic: Combat at the Kalamazoo Tour 'd Michigan (Read 612 times)

Paul Smith

Combat at the Kalamazoo Tour 'd Michigan

john e. holliday

Re: Combat at the Kalamazoo Tour 'd Michigan

Just One-eye

Re: Combat at the Kalamazoo Tour 'd Michigan

Paul Smith

Re: Combat at the Kalamazoo Tour 'd Michigan