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Triples in the Master-competition
September 5, 2003

Dear FISAC-Members,

At the bottom of this mail, you see the result of the FISAC-rulecommittee
about the triples in the Master-competition. This change is been ratified
and agreed by the Board of FISAC.
Normaly, this should have been announced by September 1st. We are a little
too late but a lot of discussions were needed. So therefore I want to
apologise on behalf of FISAC.

I certainly want to thank the rulecommittee for their great work. It was a
typical "democratic" decision and as you all know: "democracy needs time,
but the result is so much better".
I hope you will still be able to inform your clubs/skippers about this
rulechange. The FISAC-rules on our website ( www.fisac.org ) will be
adapted.

It should be logical that the National RS Organisations use the same rules
for their selection for the WorldMasters!
As you know, there will be in Australia - during the WC 2004 - a worldcup
for demonstration-teams. These rules are not finished yet. But the
rulecommittee will work very hard to finish them before the end of
September. Maybe, you can inform your members about this "upcomming"
rulechange.

On behalf of the FISAC President, Ron Kappert
Kind regards,
Geert Hoste,
Secr.gen. FISAC


New rule regarding Triple-Under's in Masters:
1) Maximum scoring possible is limited to 500.
2) Unlimited time (NO change in present rule).
3) Number of triples multiplied by two. (NO change in present rule).
4) One attempt.

Motivation for this rulechange:
1) Because of the limitation to a maximum 500 points we minimize the number
of consequetive Triple Unders in a competition in all fareness.
2) Because of the limitation to one attempt only, we maximize the number of
consequetive Triple Unders to 250; the fact that two skippers, who
participated in this 2,5 month-discussion, voted in favour of this
rulechange made it easier for the FISAC-IRSF-rulescommittee to accept this
change.
3) Because of this limitation AND keeping the number of Triple Unders being
doubled AND because of the one attempt only, we listen to the HEALTH-aspect
that is mentioned by a large number of skippers and coaches (but hasn't been
researched yet.........).


New rule regarding calculating the results for Masters:
Using the ranking system only. This means: first place in each event gets
10pts, second 9 and so on. The ranckingscores for all four events together
gives us the final rancking!

Motivation for this rulechange:
a) We don't change the characteristics of the Masters, which is a
four-disciplines-event.
b) All four disciplines are more or less in balanced scoring / proportions.

The rule regarding a tie for an event in Masters should / must be:
If there is a tie to be broken, the place points will be added together for
the participants who tie and divide the total place points by the number who
are tied.


Motivation for this rulechange to announce this to the rest of the world
would be:
No single skipper has shown absolute superiority over the other. Example:
Two skippers ended first in a field with ten competitors. None of them
should be given the 10 points. Obviously, the next skipper after the tied
skippers would get the next place point. That would be 8 points in this
example, but 7 points if 3 skippers were to be tied.
The rule about a tie in the final results is still valid!