Re: RE: Exact Builder of Model Rule

From: Jake Palmer <82.jake_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:21:22 -0800

I play in an adult dodgeball league, and while each game has refs, it's
largely self officiated. If you get hit with a ball you go out. If
someone doesn't go out they get shamed by everyone else for cheating in a
meaningless children's game.

As for enforcement of BOM, it's quite simple. How is any other rule
enforced? Models are weighed before each flight, but what prevents someone
from removing ballast after weigh in? The answer is we trust our fellow
competitors to be honest. If the CD asks you if you built your model and
you say yes, then it's settled.

Ultimately we're talking about a HOBBY, and I think a lot of people have
lost perspective.


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Don DeLoach <ddeloach_at_comcast.net> wrote:

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> And BOM is not impossible to enforce? Please tell me how to enforce it.
> Require video evidence of guys building their models? Sworn affidavits?
>
> DD
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jan 29, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Jake Palmer <82.jake_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> "I still like my BOSOM rule -- Builder Of Significant part Of Model.
> Say, in F1D, you must built at least 80% of the model, by weight. You
> can choose which 20% to buy, trade, receive as gift."
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> Kang, this would be difficult to write as a rule and impossible to enforce
> at competitions. Either we have BOM, or we don't. There is no realistic
> middle ground.
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> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:46 PM, <ykleetx_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The wording of the AMA rule seems fairly lenient, and an unfinished
>> carbon prop outline may be allowed under the rules. (This is my reading of
>> the rule. I may be biased because I think many pre-made items should be
>> allowed.)
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>> I still like my BOSOM rule -- Builder Of Significant part Of Model. Say,
>> in F1D, you must built at least 80% of the model, by weight. You can
>> choose which 20% to buy, trade, receive as gift.
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