TAS 2006 Point Standing

[Kevin Tran]

Wayne,
The right most column of the spreadsheet lists the points that a pilot earns in all the contests that he/she has attended.

[JPrc]

Kevin, here are the results from the Little Rock, AR May 12th & 13th...thanks Jonas

Here are the final Standings:

Basic

1st Cory Oubre 7951.18
2nd Dan Powell 7879.98
3rd Andy Snow 7017.54
4th Jason Hoyle 6817.23
5th Jimmy Hobby 6549.68
6th Murry Adams 5934.54
7th Bill Warren 5666.53
8ty Jarrod Carr 5269.15
9th Dale Lathem 4255.74

Sportsman:

1st Kevin Cole 4912.68
2nd Phil Oubre 4857.91
3rd Trent Young 4720.72
4th Tom Burnerett 4595.55
5th Steven Reinke 4342.53
6th Scott Schaffer 4269.35
7th Mark Gery 4228.16
8th Johnny Westbrook 4181.94
9th David Bradford 4174.86
10th Andy Thomas 4150.96
11th Julius Miller 3436.95
12th Bobby Folsom 3110.37

Intermidiate:

1st Jonas Pharr 5000.00
2nd Jeremy Holt 4928.70
3rd Rudy Voldrich 4706.02
4th Cliff Town 3979.26
5th Eddie Bernaldez 3604.86

Advanced:

1st, 2nd, and 3rd Ryan Gonsoulin 1000.00


Unlimited:

1st Lyndel Roe 1000.00

Freestyle:

Rudy Voldrich

[Kevin Tran]

Following contests have been included in the TAS point standing:

SVF Cactus Classic, AZ
Bear Mountain Flyers, CA
North Las Vegas, NV
El Paso, UT
Tucson, AZ
Hollister, CA
Riverside Spring, CA
Polar Bear, WA
Medford IMAC Challenge, OR
High Desert IMAC, OR
Crosby IMAC Challenge, TX
Houston IMAC Shootout, TX
Central Arkansas IMAC, AK
Don Carmichael Memorial, IN
IMAC at ICMAC 2006, MI
The 332 Redtail RC Flyers 2nd IMAC Opener, FL
2006 Amp's annual aerobatics challenge, FL
JR Challenge 2006, FL
Midland Madness, NC
Venice IMAC, FL
10th Annual Spring Classic, FL
Georgialina Spring IMAC, GA

[Kevin Tran]

SW contest "2006 Alamogordo IMAC, NM" has been included.

[Hambone]

kevin could you post a example of what your program does....just wondering??? obviously a lot could change between now and july 31, 2006 but it would give a person an idea...thanks in advanced..

[Kevin Tran]

Hi Stephen,
Before my program is run, I have to create text files with contest results. The result files are stored in seperate directories based on regions (SW,NW,SC,NC, etc...). I can do it very quicky by cutting and pasting the result from website. The content of result in the text file looks like:

Stephen Hamilton
Michael Jackson
George Bush

When the program runs, it reads Pilot name from the file. First one is first place; second one is second place, and so on.... It allocates one structure (memory) dynamically for each pilot and links them together as a single linked list as it goes. Each structure contains points earned per contest, pilot name, etc... When it finishes reading the files (end of file - feof()), program knows how many pilots are in that contest and pilot placements. It then calculates TAS points based on the specified criterions. Finally, it sorts the linked link based on the TAS points in decending order and display them. It does other things as well but this should give you some ideas.

Writing the program took me a few hours. Including one contest to the point standing doesn't take more than 2 minutes. Sometimes, it takes longer for me to do this when pilots use different names in different contests (David Moser and Dave Moser, Mike Elder and Michael Elders). I have to spot these discrepencies manually and then correct these in the contest result files.

Writing this program is easier than doing a "0 of 8" or "0 of 16" maneuver. :-)

I will try to update the list whenever result is available from now to July 31.

I hope it helps.

[Hambone]

Kevin that is really cool....sounds a little comlicated for me....but you said at the end of your post that you will try to update the list...do you have a list out somewhere or are you just talking about doing it in the future...Thanks for the help

[Kevin Tran]

Hi Stephen,
The lists in the first post of this thread should contain standings for each region and nation-wide. These lists were created/tabulated based on all the results that I have been able to collect so far. Check it out. Click here for short-cut TAS 2006 Point Standing


Based on the nation-wide standing, you are currently at 3rd with 4 flown contests. Congratulations!

Are you planning on going to TAS this year?

[TheTank]

Nice work and thanks for the effort. Up here in the NE region, its next to impossible to qualify for the shootout. With 6 contests all year, 2 of which are in Canada, and only 2 of which happen before the deadline, us northerners are just about out of luck when it comes to the TAS.

[Hambone]

kevin, i must have missed when you posted those...I really appreciate you doing that....Yes i was planning on going... its at the start of school so we will see hows it going....thanks agian...

[sweetpea]

2 questions.........


1. Kevin, since you wrote the program, I would have at least thought you'd fudge the numbers so you were higher up......or did you already do that and thats as high as you can get without making it look obvious.

2. This is for my buds in LA. Spgbob your sitting 7th nationwide, and JPRC your sitting 25th. Better get practicing!

[Kevin Tran]

	Quote: Originally Posted by sweetpea
	2 questions......... 1. Kevin, since you wrote the program, I would have at least thought you'd fudge the numbers so you were higher up......or did you already do that and thats as high as you can get without making it look obvious.

I thought about that when I was coding the program. However, I predicted that I would be the first one that your buddies in LA might double check my points based on the SW contest results. I didn't want to trick the numbers and make myself look bad eventually.


2. This is for my buds in LA. Spgbob your sitting 7th nationwide, and JPRC your sitting 25th. Better get practicing!