Message From AWSA
Board Of Directors Concerning Driving Issues
Jeffrey D. Smith
Chairman
AWSA Board of Directors
As you may know, there has been much recent
discussion about the failure of several tournament drivers and
officials to follow AWSA Rule 1.12 concerning slalom times.
Data from several tournaments shows that some drivers are providing
consistently (and intentionally) slow driving patterns in violation
of our rules. Examples of recent Technical Committee analyses of
tournaments, including those in the South Central Region, may
be reviewed at:
http://www.awsasouth.com/boattiming/reg_timming.htm
This type of driving needs to be corrected
ASAP, with all drivers and officials seeking to “set the
standard” for driving throughout the nation in both boat paths and
boat times. With that said, our officials need to adhere to
what is mandated in our rules at all times. Both fast times and slow
times are for the tolerance of wind, skier abilities, etc., NOT
ratings or soon to be rankings lists.
It is important for all officials to strive
for actual times at ALL tournaments in the Region regardless of
classification of C, E, L, and R.
In this effort, it would be appreciated if you
would send this memo to all drivers in your region to ensure they
are aware of this issue. On behalf of the AWSA Board of Directors,
your help in meeting this standard is important and appreciated.
ATTENTION:
Dateline: February 25, 2007:
For a more complete
explanation of the data, click here....
From the Drivers Perspective-Boat Times
Analysis
Written by Jerry Bautsch,
Chair AWSA Drivers Committee, SCR Drivers Committee Representative
What does it all mean?
Click
here for full details....
Clarification Regarding
Multi-Round Events
The International Water Ski Federation and USA
Water Ski/American Water Ski Association have been allowing tournaments (Class
IE, E, L or R) in excess of three rounds. These tournaments are still considered
an exception and accordingly, a request must be made. However an automatic
exception will be granted. Further, the chief judge is to submit a report to the
Rules Committee chairman. As a condition of granting this blanket exception, no
more than three qualifying rounds may be held that do not utilize an
elimination-based format. Rounds subsequent to round three must be
elimination-based, and the elimination must be significant for the rounds
subsequent to round three to retain the tournament classification (IE E, L or
R). Should a skier produce a score in a round subsequent to round three that
exceeds the skier’s best performance in any of the initial three rounds, the
scorer is to separately notify USA Water Ski and the seeding representative of
the score so that this score is included in the various ranking lists.
2008 Ski Year went into
effect the day after the conclusion of the 2007 U.S. Nationals.
Downloaded
Entry List templates (pulled from the admin website) from events earlier in
the season have the old age division information. Re-using an entry list
template from an 07 event -- even one from only 2 weeks back -- will have the
wrong age division information for a large numbers of skiers. This is one of the
biggest problems the seeding committee deals with each fall.
It is imperative the tournament sponsors and
scorers download new Entry List Templates prior to ALL tournaments held after
August 18. 2007, with an 08 sanction number.
DO NOT USE ENTRY LIST TEMPLATES FROM 07 SANCTIONED
TOURNAMENTS.
Fresh Templates are the Order of the day!
Avoid the “blue screen of
death'’ try the new video jump program.
Water Ski Computer update
now finalized and available for download. You're going to positively LOVE the
new Video Jump program. Kudos to Bob Corson for his many hours of effort on this
new integrated program. And the lockups that many of you have experienced, are a
thing of the past. Submitted by Dave
Clark
