"Edward Mitchell" wrote in message
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At the end of the round robin of either three or six races in the first
day,
the entire fleet would be divided into a Gold and a Silver fleet for the
rest of the regatta. No scores from the qualifying round would carry over
into the final series.

At the end of the day, the first 15 boats from each fleet would be moved
into the Gold fleet for the finals. The others would go into the Silver
fleet.

If fact, we only had time for three races on Day 1 but it was a complete
round robin on which to base the separation.

IMHO management didn't design this round robin correctly. It would have
been
fairer to take the top 60 boats from the three qualifying race
cumulative scores. Picking the top fifteen was unfair to someone who
happened to be in a fleet of top sailors but who would do well against the
average boats in the other fleets.

Is there a better way of separating out the players in a three day
regatta?
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I think your suggestion is by far the most fair, it is quite possible a 16th
placed boat in one fleet would consistantly beat, and be faster than, a 1st
placed boat in another fleet, let alone one of the top 15 others.

As the series was a complete round robin this would have been fair to all,
and the gold and silver fleets should have been decided on overall scores
not places in each fleet. Even if each fleet was seeded I still think they
should have gone for the overall placing and not placing in fleet, otherwise
whats the point of having 2 fleets race together, it would have been easier
to have 4 starts of 30ish boats if it was to be decided that way.

Great to see such a large turnout, best be prepared for future events and
have a system in place before hand, or set a maximum number of entries, but
then again we dont want to have to stop anybody racing who wants to......

Roger

Roger Battersby
UK Dinghy Racing http://www.ukdinghyracing.com