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2/13/2002 NOPS Standard 8/28/2000 Using WSTIMS Outside the USA Enhancements have been made in version 3.3. Printer-friendly page, how to make it work. 5/5/98 Multi-Class Tournaments & WSTIMS Corson Video JumpCorson Video Jump Setup for Judges and Scorers
CVJ for Local Tournaments
Multi-Class tournaments & WSTIMSHere's some guidance with regard to handling these mixed class tournaments under WSTIMS. Please pass this on to others in your respective areas, hopefully we can get everybody on the same page on these issues. First and Foremost -- DO NOT select the "IWSF Rules" option on the tournament setup screen, for any local tournament which is sanctioned by the AWSA. This option is intended solely for those few occasional tournaments which are conducted ENTIRELY under IWSF rules, including metric boat speeds and jump distances reported primarily in meters and so on. This option is NOT intended to apply to AWSA sanctioned tournaments which have some or all events run as class "L" or "R". Some of the recent problems arise from scorers presuming -- incorrectly -- that this Rules control option needs to be set appropriately for each event, and consequently switching this option back and forth as a tournament runs. Instead this results in mixing up the results formats, and putting meters where feet belong and vice versa. As well as other undesirable results vis-a-vis overall scoring implications and so on. Simply put, DON'T do this. Set this to AWSA rules and leave it that way. However, then when you DO have mixed classes, you MUST set the "Mixed Classes?" option to "Y". While the overall sanction classification may end with E or L or R or something else (A or B for Regionals or Nationals, for example), individual events within such a tournament will have different classes. This Mixed Classes option will "Sensitize" a tournament to this mixed class issue, and will thereafter help you keep track of what class each individual event group is being run under, and then include those classifications in the results being reported for each performance. In such cases you need to include a printed copy of the "Tournament Summary" along with the detail scorebook printout, since this is where those details are reported on paper. Plus this also provides the scorer the vehicle to check these codes and make sure these classifications have been applied correctly to each event group in the first place. Don't assume -- check. Now let's talk a little about managing individual events within such mixed class tournaments. The officials MUST be familiar with the details of the differences in the Slalom and Tricks and Jumping events, when these are being run under classes L and R. The officials are responsible for ensuring that all of those rules provisions are complied with. Please note that while the new release of WSTIMS will automatically invoke some of these procedural aspects when an event class is L or R, there are numerous event conduct aspects beyond just the scoring which need to be handled properly, and so familiarity with the differences is vital. Jim Grew has done a great job identifying these differences, and getting these into the new edition of the rule book -- use that as a resource. Now let me switch gears and talk a little about a newly-evolving format where a sponsor will run one set of events on one lake under non-record class C rules, and another set of events on another lake under Record classes E or L or R. But this whole affair is sanctioned as one single tournament. What are we to do from a scoring standpoint? The answer is to be found in a good understanding of the term "Administrative Unit" as described in the WSTIMS introduction, and as applied to AWSA rule 3.02(b), which is the rules foundation which enables this format. The key point to recognize, is that the administrative unit which includes the class C Men 3 slalom event being run on one lake, is an entirely separate administrative unit from the one which includes the Record class Men 3 slalom event being run on the other lake. These are separate entities from both a scoring and placement standpoint, and need to be kept separate, so that their respective classifications can be reported correctly. Numerous problems have occurred as a result of local tournament scorers attempting to combine these in one fashion or another. Here's a recommended structure of Slalom "Event Groups" for such a dual affair. Please note that this may require local modification, depending on how individual age divisions may be scheduled on each lake -- but this is the general idea how to set up such a tournament and get the results to be reported correctly. First, let's group the various age divisions into no more than four "Event Groups", which for slalom would look something like this: 36 Mph Men -- includes OM, M1, M2 & B3 -- let's code this group as "6"
Then we recognize that there are separate events being run under classes "C" and "R", and that gives us EIGHT event groups all together: 6C -- 36 Mph Men class C
These then become the codes which appear under the "SL"(alom) column in your single entry list, and which are also to be listed in the "Event Group Code List" at the bottom of the WSTIMS Tournament Setup control screen. Also, the second event group composition option -- "Mixed group with separate Running Orders and Placements" (by age division within the group) -- should be specified, unless of course you are using the third "combined placements" option instead. Note that under this structure it's possible for a given skier to ski in the R event group in some rounds and in the C event group in other rounds, but not BOTH event groups in the SAME round. The new release of WSTIMS will catch such a conflict if it should arise. Now finally let me suggest a method for dealing with this "1998 year only" issue of class L or R, and performance limits when speed control is NOT being used. If the sponsor really intends to run a class L or R event without speed control, then it will be incumbent upon the scorer to keep track of any performances attained in that event which exceed those performance limits. Then they can either create a special event group classified E and post those scores in that special event group instead of in the original event coded L -- or else they will have to attach a special note to the paper copy of the scorebook, indicating to the seeding representative which specific scores in which events have to have their classes edited back to E. If any of you see problem areas which are not addressed here, or have concerns about these guidelines, please let us know so that we can work on solutions. And be sure to pass this note on to other scorers in your respective areas who are likely to wind up working such mixed class tournaments. Dave Clark |
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