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NOTE:
The terms contest, meet and event are used somewhat interchangeably.
GENERAL
The NAR promulgates the United States Model Rocket Sporting Code
(USMRSC), affectionately known as the 'Pink Book', which governs NAR
sanctioned model rocket competition in the
version is available on the NAR web site. There is a link on the TCC
home page ( http://www.tccnar.us
). You can also down load the
document.
Contest Directors must be very familiar with the Pink Book. Read
from About the Sporting Code through section 18: Provisional
Competition. Also read the rules for the events you are hosting.
Any NAR section or member can request a contest sanction from their
Regional Contest Board Chairman.
and our chairman is Terry White.
The NAR contest year runs from 1 JUL to 30 JUN of each year. (Rule
6.2)
COMPETITION
POINTS
Competition Points are awarded for places 1-4, and for Flight Points
(Rule 13.1)
10 points per event for placing first
6 points per event for placing second
4 points per event for placing third
2 points per event for placing fourth
1 point per event for making at least one qualified, official flight
(flight points)
WEIGHTING
FACTORS AND CONTEST FACTORS
Each event in a contest has a Weighting Factor (Rule 13.3) and each
contest has a maximum Contest Factor (Rule 13.4). Points for each
event are calculated by multiplying the Competition Points by the
event Weighting Factor by the meet Contest Factor. Thus the NAR
limits the points that can be won at a particular contest.
There are four types of contests which can be sanctioned. Record
Trials and the national meet (NARAM) are special cases that are
treated separately. Each contest type has a contest factor assigned
and a maximum number of weighting factors.
Section 1 CF and 40 WF
Local 1 CF and 40 WF
Open 2 CF and 60 WF
Regional 3 and 80 WF
SCOREING
Rule 13.5 reads in part: For example, a contestant places first in
Scale Competition at an Open Meet. First place gives the contestant
10 points; Scale has a Weighting Factor of 32; and an Open Meet has
a Contest Factor of 2. Multiply 10 x 32 x 2 to obtain the number of
competition points to be awarded to the contestant for the event:
640 points.
Here is the sticky point for scheduling contests. Each NAR section
and member can only host/compete in a total of 12 contest factors in
a contest year. If four sections each host a regional in a year,
each would have only used 3 contest factors. However, if each
section had at least 1 member who officially represented that
section in each regional, then each section would have used up all
12 contest factors. To maximize points, each section must carefully
monitor which contests their members enter as officially
representing the section. The more members competing, the
more
points.
Thus, the NAR regulates (to some extent) the number of points that
one section/member can win in a contest year. A section or member
has only 12 contest factors per contest year. When even ONE section
member officially represents a section, that section and
the member
are each charged for the contest factors for that meet.
Lee James
NAR 15058 SR
TCC Custodian
http://www.tccnar.us