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The
1st America's Cup of World Class Soaring
Uvalde,
TX. August 13-23, 2002
The America's Cup:
The America's Cup is
a perpetual trophy that will be won, and held until the next event, by
the country achieving the highest cumulative score in an America's Cup
competition.
Concept: The America's Cup competitions will be monotype soaring competitions
using the World Class glider (PW-5).
Schedule:
The America's Cup will
be held approximately every two years, in years when a World Championship
of the World Class is not scheduled to take place.
Location:
The first America's
Cup competition will be held in the United States of America. Subsequently,
the America's Cup competitions will be held in the country that last won
the Cup, concurrently with the World Class National Championship (WCNC)
of that country, or back in the USA if the country that last won the Cup
does not hold a regular WCNC.
Period of Competition:
The period of each
America's Cup competition is the duration of the hosting country's WCNC,
with the option of one additional day. The optional additional day should
be scheduled immediately following the end of the hosting country's WCNC
and is reserved for the final "shoot-out task," weather, site
conditions, and organization permitting.
Entry and Fees:
Participation in the
America's Cup isto all countries. Entry into an America's Cup competition
isto all pilots entering the WCNC of the hosting country, either
as regular entrants or guest entrants, with no additional fees over the
regular fees for entry in the WCNC.
Scoring:
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Tasks and scoring rules
will be those of the WCNC of the hosting country. On each America's Cup
competition day, the day score of a country will be the highest score
achieved on that day by any pilot from that country. GNSS-based scoring
systems and procedures are preferred. For the "shoot-out task,"
held as the last day of the America's Cup if weather, site conditions,
and organization permits, only the highest placing pilot from each
country in the final overall ranking of the WCNC will participate as the
representative of that country in the "shoot-out task." Scores
for the shoot-out task will be allocated as 1000/N x (N - R +1), where
N is the number of participating countries and R is the place ranking
(from 1st to Nth) of the representative pilot in the "shoot-out task."
The country with the highest cumulative score at the end of the America's
Cup competition will win and hold the America's Cup until the next America's
Cup competition.
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Shoot-out task.
The shoot-out
task is a short (typically one hour), simultaneous-start (however
from possibly different points), lap race (M laps from start point
and back to start point), above a minimum altitude (typically 2000
ft), around turn-points located close to the site (typically 2 to
5 Km). The intent is to allow visual following of the competitors
by spectators, and possibly filming by TV media crews.
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Contact:
François
Pin
4917 West Summit Circle
Knoxville, TN 37919, USA.
Tel: (865) 584-2810
Email: pinf
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