LXRocker that " golf" idea is one of the most original and thought provoking ones I have seen here!! I like the basic idea, logistics to work out, but the idea is worth exploring! Shoot 20 on Friday, some % of shooters or base score, above that line you keep going, below that line you go trophy style or some such, worth thinking over in my opinion! EVERYONE would have to go check the scores and getting out the Saturday shoot times would be a challenge, plus setting/staking the " other folks" (which I would be one probably ) would be hard and would back up, probably.

As for the fall back plans, it sounds like, from Ken' s explanation there was one:

In the event of bad weather that you can NOT finish the tournament, you " stop" it at the last common target shot (man what a nightmare for score keepers there[] ).

The issues:

1) Wasn' t public knowledge
2) Didn' t seem to account for such a HUGE cutback in the tournament
3) Still doesn' t account for different courses, though the further into day 2 you get the less this is an issue.

The " 5" shooters thing I believe is the " normal" shootdown cut isn' t it? If so, then it is the " right" one to use given the above proceedure, however there maybe should be an exception for such a huge cut.

Also, if that is the " standard" rule, it would have been nice to turn us all loose again on Saturday to see how much we could get done, many would have finished only to have some targets not count (which if explained before hand might have been acceptable), many would not have finished in which case some sort of siren/fog horn could be blown at the " end time"

Oh well, hindsight makes it all easy. IBO had to make a call, they did, whatever it was would have made someone unhappy.

--Bob