ZackJones

Two different issues. Technically the club should not permit unofficial divisions. If the competitor is not a member then assign to normal division and upload. If the competitor is a member then they should adhere to the rules and only shoot official divisions. For fun stages don’t delete them. That will screw up final results of you do. Stages that do not have an official classifier code entered (SC-10x) will be treated as unofficial stage and ignored for classification purposes. Our club routinely runs 5 official and 1 fun stage.

I don’t think PractiScore web will allow you to create the upload file with an unofficial division in it. If it does I would consider that a bug that we would need for them to fix.

Menu option under Member Resources on SCSA web.

Put your feedback in an email and send it to me zack@uspsa.org and I will make sure the right people see it.

Every Wednesday at 8 EST. Go to results page. There is a column showing the date the activity fee was paid or Not Paid if the club hasn’t paid yet.

For obvious reasons I voted for Steel Challenge. What type of match are you referring to as an "Outlaw Steel Match" surely you're not talking about using official Steel Challenge stages and rules, right?

1 - Our primary focus are times recorded at WSSC. If there's insufficient data for a division we may expand to other major matches to get a feel for how competitors are doing or simply decide not to make any adjustments due to insufficient data. We don't just look at times though. We also look at who shot those times. It makes zero sense to adjust a PST for a division if only one or two people are shooting faster than the actual PST. 2 - We do a number of different calculations using actual math. We certainly don't just pluck some number out of the air and use that. A lot of work goes into the review and our recommendations to Mike and the senior USPSA staff.

Chris Barrett is no longer part of the under 18 crowd I like your way of thinking though!

Generally speaking that's true; however, we do look for those times that need to be increased instead of decreased. We are currently doing our annual deep dive into the data right now.

Best me to it. Thanks for posting it.

I would say no they are not required but I can’t point to a rule that says they must offer all 13. For example one club here in South Carolina is not permitted to shoot long guns on the pistol bays. Therefore they don’t offer Rimfire Rifle and PCC at their monthly match. If it’s a pistol division being excluded that seems odd unless it’s a one of a kind match such as only irons or only optics. If it’s typical club match I would expect all divisions to be offered except as noted above.

That’s a bug. It should not download the stages again. Contact support@practiscore.com and let them know.

You can had production gun in holster while shooting RFPO but if production gun should accidentally fall out during a string you would be DQ’d for dropped gun.

This is absolutely permitted. I do it all the time. As a match official I'm usually running around like a chicken with my head cut off so I always bag my center fire pistol. The only possible problem is if you open the case and the muzzle is pointed in the wrong direction. For that reason I always put the pistol in the case the exact same way.

I'd think it's allowed so post away. I would like to know his thoughts on the subject. I know we (steel challenge competitors) have 100% support from Foley.

If I were king for the day I'd eliminate the movement. Change the box to 3x3 and have everyone shoot from the center box only. Or another possibility would be to keep the two outside boxes and shot it like showdown but I don't know without setting it up if the outside boxes would be too far apart.

Based on what you said the stage is not setup in compliance with the rules and should not be used for classification. The boxes should be 4x4 not 3x3. Moving between boxes is risky for all competitors. At WSSC this year Team Glock Captain Shane Coley fell between boxes and dropped his gun resulting in his DQ from the match. Based on them not painting plates I'm surprised they DQ'd the person that dropped the gun. If they are willing to ignore one rule (panting plates between competitors) why both enforcing any rules?? Regarding the MD allowing you to shoot from center box - Given this range ignores rules then I'm sure they'd let the MD make that call. Per rule though it's Range Master decision. If the stage is in an unsafe condition the Range Master should discontinue shooting on it until it's made safe for all competitors. Have you expressed your safety concerns to the MD?

I found this on the Dillon Forum where the CP2000 was being discussed: So yet another delay :(.

I use Ubiquiti gear along with the cradle point. Basically I create what Ubiquiti calls a mesh network meaning one or more access points talk to each other. We used the following setup at WSSC: Mesh8 <-> Mesh7 <-> Mesh6 <-> Mesh5 <-> Mesh4 <-> MASTER AP / Cradle Point <-> Mesh1 <-> Mesh2 <-> Mesh3 This was probably overkill but it worked like a champ. The Master AP was powered by AC outlet and all other Mesh AP's were powered by batteries. We use iPads for scoring and that version of PractiScore supports score logging which sends an email to the competitor with their stage time as soon as they tap the approve button. The Cradle Point provides the Internet connection to the private WiFi network. We ran this setup Wed - Sunday morning and it worked like a champ. We pushed 1.5 GB of data through the cradle point over the course of the match.

For home club we run the matches on an open network. For large matches like US Steel Shoot and WSSC I run it on a private WiFi network and use a Cradle Point device to provide Internet Connectivity for score logging. I'm coming down for the West Coast Steel Challenge match and I can bring my gear down if you want to check it out. It would be interesting to see how much gear it would take to cover all bays. I'd guess not much at all.

Did they announce an estimated price or availability date?

FWIW when it was originally posted they (HQ) used the wrong template which didn't include the down/print option. When I saw this post I told them and they fixed it.

Thanks for the update. I sure hope it's worth the wait.

@MemphisMechanic Thanks for posting the photo. That start position is fine.

Can you explain the "Compressed Ready Start Position". It's not a term I've ever heard relative to Steel Challenge. If you have a picture of someone using this position would you please post it.