Congratulations Norm Poti for 1st place for the Remus trophy!
2020 Leaderboard
EXPERT 2019
5789 Norm Poti
5654 Jerry Shape
5324 Marc Marcum
Member Clubs
Dayton Area Thermal Soarers
DARTS
Eastern Iowa Soaring Society
EISS
Louisville Area Soaring Society
LASS
Silent Order of Aeromodelingby Radio
SOAR
About Us
The Ohio Valley Soaring Series (OVSS) was organized to promote radio control soaring competition (thermal duration or TD) in the Midwest part of the United States. The geographical region encompasses Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois and Iowa and we are always open to welcoming new member clubs interested in holding a weekend contest at their flying site and joining the series. The OVSS awards a Season Championship to both a Master and Sportsman level pilot who score the highest in the season’s contest schedule flying unlimited class sailplanes according to the scoring section below.
Contest Criteria
Member clubs at a minimum hold a weekend contest* (two days, two separate unlimited class contests) for participants to have a chance to produce a score. It has become the preferred choice of the vast majority of fliers that the Man-on-Man format and normalized scoring be utilized in OVSS contests, but it is not a requirement to hold a contest under this format. Also, at the club’s choice, is the addition of other classes, i.e. two-meter or RES, but it has been shown over the history of the series that clubs that focused on and supported long flight times and five or more rounds of flying only unlimited class per day had better attendance.
The benchmark of the OVSS is having a minimum of a League of Silent Flight – Level V size contest (20 entries or more) every day of the season, and that has been the case in the majority of contests.
*Except the AMA Soaring Nationals Unlimited Class Contest
Scoring
Scoring is done on a normalized format that bases a contestant’s score for a particular day’s event as a percentage of the winner’s score times 1000. For example:
Flier A’s Score = 4109
Winner’s Score = 4376
4109/4376 x 1000 = 938.985
Flyer A’s score rounds up to 939.9
(All scores rounded to the tenth of a point)
In each weekend contest that is flown, a flier’s best score is taken to count toward the Season Championship, so in essence, a flier has two opportunities per weekend to generate a score to apply for the Season Championship. The only exception to this is the AMA Soaring Nationals where only one contest opportunity exists to fly Unlimited Class.
For 2020, there are eight contest weekends and the AMA Soaring Nationals (ALES and UNLIMITED) for a total of ten events. This year, a flier’s best 6 (six) scores generated per contest weekend or at the Soaring Nationals will count toward the Season Championship in both Master and Sportsman classes. A pilot who flies 7 events or more during the season will have the opportunity to drop their lowest contest score(s) according to the final number of contests flown in the season.
If a tie occurs for the OVSS Season Championship, the following tie breakers will be used in this order:
1) Most number of wins in the pilot’s five scored contests
2) Five minute man-on-man fly-off at the Fall Round Up with the contest landing task
Classes
OVSS recognizes two classes of fliers for awards in the year-end Season Championships; they are Master and Sportsman. At each contestant’s first OVSS contest of the year, pilots will declare themselves either a Master or Sportsman class flier. A Master class flier will from that point onward stay in the Master class. Those choosing to fly Sportsman will fly that class until one of two possible conditions occurs:
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The flier decides to change classes voluntarily and this forever elevates the flier to the Master class.
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The flier wins the Sportsman class championship at the end of a season.
Final Thoughts
In developing OVSS, the quest for excellence in the endeavor of soaring is the goal, the fellowship of those who have joined in the quest is the reward. Enjoy the Series, enjoy the flying, enjoy the passion of soaring.
2020 OVSS Schedule
May 2, 3 MOSS/DARTS ALES Dayton Ohio
May 16, 17 Cinnc Aero Mixed Harrison, Ohio
June 6, 7 LASS F5J Lite Muncie, Indiana
June 27, 28 EISS ALES Muscatine, Iowa
July 11,12 DARTS Mixed Dayton, Ohio
July 28, 29 NATS ALES Muncie, Indiana
July 30, 31 NATS Unlimited Muncie, Indiana
August 22, 23 SOAR BYOW Chicago, Illinois
Sept 12,13 Cinnc Aero ALES Harrison, Ohio
Oct 3, 4 FRU Mixed Muncie, Indiana
Past Scores and Champions
(click on year for OVSS scores)
1998 – Don Harris
1999 – Mike Remus
2000 – Karl Miller
2001 – Paul Siegel
2002 – Jim Bacus
2003 – Rich Burnoski
2004 – Rich Burnoski
2005 – Jim Bacus
2006 – Marc Gellart
2007 – Karl Miller
2008 – Karl Miller
2009 – Karl Miller
2010 – Chris Lee
2011 – Chris Lee
2012 – Chris Lee
2013 – Chris Lee
2014 – Chris Lee
2015 – Bob Burson
2016 – Rich Burnoski
2017 – Norm Poti
2018 – Gavin Trussell
2019 – Norm Poti
History of the OVSS
Click here to read about how it all began.
Contact Info
OVSS Coordinators
Karl Miller
Norm Poti
Mike Johnson
OVSS Scorekeeper/Webmaster – Mike Johnson