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After half a year with a lot of discussions, thinking, discussing again and again and, finally, taking decisions, we came to a new Scoring System for the Finn World Masters. Many Finn Masters gave their comments and even a few International Judges and the creator of a scoring programme for sail regatta’s were involved. So we were sure we had a good working system.

But: while visiting Split, mid February, it was discussed again with people who were not involved from the beginning. And there one of them found a bombshell in the system!

When a sailor is, after the last race before the Final race, 1 point behind his major competitor, he must finish in the Final race, (when we sail in 3 groups) at least 3 places ahead of his competitor to beat him. This looks not very fair and indicates that the 1/2 or 1/3 points system for the Finals appeared not to be a good system.

So, the final decision was not to use this system and subsequently abandon the Final race, but sail a series of Heats with an end result.

What remains new is the allocation in Colour Groups for each racing day. In the past we were used to sail in the same group against the same competitors in our group for the whole week, but now you sail in a different group with different competitors each day.
This gives a better competition than we had in the past.

These groups will, for 2010, be created randomly, direct after having closed the Registration on Sunday May 23^rd. This means that every competitor knows on the Sunday evening which colour group he will sail in on each day of the Championship.

To inform you about the whole format I place hereunder the NOR paragraphs concerning the Scoring and Format.

I sincerely hope this format will satisfy all of us and that we will have a fair and competitive Finn World Masters in Split.

6.1 The Masters’ 2010 will be scheduled for a non-scoring practice Race, and a series with a maximum of eight scoring Races for
each boat.

6.2     The scheduled series will consist of maximum eight Races, called Heats. Depending on Entries, each Heat will be divided
          into two or three groups, called Colour Groups, of similar size. Boats will be divided randomly into Colour Groups, which will
          change each day.

6.3 Overall results will be based on the boat’s score for the series, with one discard if sufficient races have been completed.

13.2 Each Colour Group of each Heat will be scored according to the Low Point System (1, 2, 3 points etc).

13.3 A total of four or more Heats must be completed to constitute a Championship.

13.4 When fewer than five Heats have been completed, a boat’s series score will be the total of her race scores.

13.5 When five or more Heats have been completed, a boat’s series score will be the total of her race scores excluding her worst
score, subject to RRS 90.3 (b).