AAFTA has released their new scoring formula for 2025, it is what it is at this point, to garner 100% of the available GP points for a match win the course difficulty needs to be set at 36T without wind and light/dark difficulty modifiers.
The Battle Mountain match in Nevada is a very difficult venue to shoot, the wind, the sun, and the canyon walls are relentless. A 45 yard target looks like its 55 yards away, a 55 yard target looks illegal, one's sense of scale/distance is distorted and there is very little around to judge wind when it is under 10mph.
This is not a post for commenting on the new scoring formula, it is to try and figure out how to set an 'easy' 36T course in a location where there is a lot of wind. Since the scores are relative to that match a low scoring win counts for full points (36T course), we'll just have to live with the lower hit percentages (we're Tough Enough).
Typically the course in Nevada has been set at or around a 28T, which sounds low yet some of the best shooters in the world have a very difficult time breaking into the typical hit percentages seen on a more difficult course without the Nevada wind.
Scott H posted about optimizing the course to as close to 36T as possible for all targets. Which makes sense, but is it better to put the smaller targets further out or the larger targets further out if you want to account for a low Troyer target (say for offhand)? We have a unique offhand lane that we would ultimately like to keep but it will not allow for a 36T target (without modifying the target itself).
Would it make sense to move the further targets in some and the closer targets out? Thinking that further out targets are more difficult in the wind... Is this any gain over keeping things at 36T.
I've been toying with the idea of setting some long distance small kz targets in areas where there is less wind (can't do that with the distance targets). I believe for Hunter a small KZ is easier if it is not at 10 yards.
What would people prefer? What have people experienced as good/bad? Nevada had one day of 36T but it was haphazardly set on site and likely a bad experience for target placement.
Is there a way to make an easy or hard 36T course? I suppose the easiest would be as Scott mentioned, everything as close to 36T as possible.
The Worlds was a very interestingly set group of courses, i'd be interested in knowing more about the course layout if it was a 36T, the variation in target size and distance was well balanced.
Is setting courses like making a sandwich, when you make it it doesn't taste the same as when someone else makes it...? LOL
The Battle Mountain match in Nevada is a very difficult venue to shoot, the wind, the sun, and the canyon walls are relentless. A 45 yard target looks like its 55 yards away, a 55 yard target looks illegal, one's sense of scale/distance is distorted and there is very little around to judge wind when it is under 10mph.
This is not a post for commenting on the new scoring formula, it is to try and figure out how to set an 'easy' 36T course in a location where there is a lot of wind. Since the scores are relative to that match a low scoring win counts for full points (36T course), we'll just have to live with the lower hit percentages (we're Tough Enough).
Typically the course in Nevada has been set at or around a 28T, which sounds low yet some of the best shooters in the world have a very difficult time breaking into the typical hit percentages seen on a more difficult course without the Nevada wind.
Scott H posted about optimizing the course to as close to 36T as possible for all targets. Which makes sense, but is it better to put the smaller targets further out or the larger targets further out if you want to account for a low Troyer target (say for offhand)? We have a unique offhand lane that we would ultimately like to keep but it will not allow for a 36T target (without modifying the target itself).
Would it make sense to move the further targets in some and the closer targets out? Thinking that further out targets are more difficult in the wind... Is this any gain over keeping things at 36T.
I've been toying with the idea of setting some long distance small kz targets in areas where there is less wind (can't do that with the distance targets). I believe for Hunter a small KZ is easier if it is not at 10 yards.
What would people prefer? What have people experienced as good/bad? Nevada had one day of 36T but it was haphazardly set on site and likely a bad experience for target placement.
Is there a way to make an easy or hard 36T course? I suppose the easiest would be as Scott mentioned, everything as close to 36T as possible.
The Worlds was a very interestingly set group of courses, i'd be interested in knowing more about the course layout if it was a 36T, the variation in target size and distance was well balanced.
Is setting courses like making a sandwich, when you make it it doesn't taste the same as when someone else makes it...? LOL
