1. General

1.1. The Objectives

The main objectives of the competition are to find the SPEEDBATTLE-CUP-Champion 2007/08 in all 5 classes.

1.2. The Champions

Champion will be the pilot with the highest overall score after the last competition day. There will be a country-scoring.

1.3. The Championship classes

The competition is flown in 5 classes: Open class, 18m class, 15m class, Standard class and School class. The classes will change during the competition.

1.4. The Calendar

The competition will start on 1st November 2007. Competition days are Thursday and Sunday. The last race will be at the 30th of March that means 44 races since the first race.

2. Pilots

2.1 The Entry

All condor pilots can sign up at the Condor Competition Center

2.2. Requirements

Every pilot has to own a legal copy of condor, manipulating the program or the planes is not allowed and will be punished with exclusion from the competition.

2.3. Refly

Every pilot is allowed to fly a task only one time, reflying the task will be punished with exclusion from the competition.

3. Flight

3.1 The Tasks

The tasks can be set by the different tasksetters. You have to turn in the same direction as the glider that is already/first in the thermal. Any change of direction must be done outside the thermal.

3.2. The time schedule

There are several time zones. At each timezone you are able to join the server within 30 minutes after the time zone has started

Time zones for Thursday races:

• 00:45 UTC
• 01:45 UTC
• 02:45 UTC
• 03:45 UTC
• 04:45 UTC
• 07:45 UTC
• 11:45 UTC
• 14:45 UTC
• 16:45 UTC
• 17:45 UTC
• 18:45 UTC
• 19:45 UTC
• 20:45 UTC
• 21:45 UTC
• 22:45 UTC
• 23:45 UTC

Time zones for Sunday races:

• 00:45 UTC
• 01:45 UTC
• 02:45 UTC
• 03:45 UTC
• 04:45 UTC
• 07:45 UTC
• 10:45 UTC
• 11:45 UTC
• 12:45 UTC
• 14:45 UTC
• 16:45 UTC
• 17:45 UTC
• 18:45 UTC
• 19:45 UTC
• 20:45 UTC
• 21:45 UTC
• 22:45 UTC
• 23:45 UTC

Every pilot can change the time zone at the member area of the CCC, but is only allowed to take part at one race of the day!. Because of that the change of time zones is locked on the race days Sundays and Thursdays. The Race start is 15 minutes after end of join time for normal tasks with 120 minutes start time window. For tasks with regattastart the race in time is 20minutes. Taskinfo is switched off. J-key is also switched off.

3.3. Sectors

The start line will be 10km long and it will be perpendicular to the track to the first TP. Turnpoints will generally be cans with a 0,5km also AATs using bigger cans are possible. The finish line will be 3 km long and perpendicular to the track from the last TP.

3.4. Briefing

The Briefing will be send via E-mail and published at the CCC - including a map and all other information 1 hour before the servers start.

3.5. Disconnections and out landings.

If you are disconnected during the flight just finish your flight and load up your IGC file. If you get disconnected and you don't upload your IGC your race will be scored as a crash.

3.6. Crashing

A crash will be scored with zero points. After your 5th crash, no matter if it's a bug of the scenery, your fault, or a Condor problem your total score will be decreased with 500 points. After your 10th crash you will get an additional penalty with 2.000 points After your 15 th crash you will be excluded from the SBC. If you crash before crossing the startline we won't punish that crash because we can't see that crash at the servers' result CSV. Before a discussion starts that we can parse the logfile and punish the prestartline crashers as well - we won't parse the logfile ever. If you have been disconnected from the server your status at the server's CSV is racing. So do use a favour and upload your IGC. Otherwise we don't know your status and have to set your flight as crashed. And if you crash please upload your IGC anyway. This will minimize our workload.

4. Scoring

4.1 Daily Results

The scoring will be done automatically with SeeYou. Scoring will be done according to the FAI RULES FOR WORLD AND CONTINENTAL SOARING CHAMPIONSHIPS, Annex A to Section 3 – Gliding. Scoring is without handicap (index). In difference to the FAI rules, the max. points are every day 1.000 points, due to the total valuation and the 50% results. The formula for the 1.000 points is: 1.000 / max. SeeYou result of the day multiplicated with your SeeYou result.

4.2. Overall scoring

For the overall scoring 50% of the best results of all races (44) will be count.

4.3. Upload of IGC

The IGC upload time is ending normally 5 hours after jointime has started.

4.4. Valid flights

A flight won't be scored if the pilot is not included in the Result.csv which is generated by the Condor Dedicated Server or if the IGC L-record -LCONFlightInfoRaceID- has the value 0 . When crossing the startline AFTER the startline has opened your flight is included in the CSV file and the L-record has a valid value.

5. Organisation

5.1 Timezone

We will not change you timezone on racedays manually.

5.2. Password

We won´t send passwords for other timezones.

5.3. IGC Upload

We won´t upload your IGC.

5.4. Competition number

Your CN set at the CCC must be same as you use in the SBC task (Check your pilot settings in the CONDOR software). Otherwise you won´t be able to upload your IGC.

5.5. Competition language

The competition language is englisch ,german and swabian ;-). Mails using other languages than the Copmetition languges will be ignored.

5.6. Starting fee

There is a starting fee of 5 Euro. All pilots are able to join a server but only pilots who have paid the starting fee are able to upload their IGC for scoring. SBC08 is a none-profit competition the fees are used to pay the dedicated Windows servers.