1996 marked the inaugural year of the SCIRA partnership award at the US Nationals. The goal of the competition is to help Snipers at different ability levels to meet one another, to help transfer information from the top to the bottom of the fleet, and to bring all parts of the fleet closer together. It is also intended to be a fun award without a lot of serious competition. All of the competitors were seeded according to an estimate made by the US National secretary Lee Griffith. The partners were made by pairing the top seed with the bottom seed, second with second from the bottom, and so on. The partner's scores for each race were summed (regardless of Crosby, Heinzerling, or Wells fleet races). The results are shown below.
Place Partner Hull Numbers Points -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Commette/V. Casalaina (29114/28856) 211 2. Nixon/Carr (28214/27276) 241 3. Klotz/Hackbarth (27270/29014) 246 4. O'Hare/Norwood (23591/29200) 253 5. Dull/Welch (27788/27772) 268 6. Diaz Sr./Keckler (28814/27238) 285 7. Gilreath/Stang (28655/22870) 290 8. Fournier/Kimble (28679/25627) 293 9. Franco/Welles (28702/25197) 299 10. Szabo/Hill (28672/28628) 299 11. L. Pline/J. Rix (26926/27405) 303 12. Bustamante/Fenner (27872/25515) 304 13. Hall/Sepanski (28199/29017) 317 14. Duffy/Waskow (25048/27734) 318 15. Beck/S. Casalaina (26600/28445) 325 16. Hart/Nielson (28687/26994) 337 17. Leweck/Burns (28467/29092) 337 18. Lenkeit/Moody (28686/27364) 337 19. Jones/Moss (28852/27144) 362 20. Duvoisin/Hammond (28694/25710) 371 21. McKenzie/S. Irgens (25840/28470) 375 22. Hallawell/Foster (28142/26397) 387 23. Campbell/Carroll (29015/25395) 391 24. Beardsley/Blouin (24600/25054) 391 25. MacRae/Muhlhausen Sr. (26451/24442) 392 26. Filter/M. Rix (28094/25785) 399 27. Burke/C. Irgens (24807/27094) 409 28. Tillson/Martinez (27567/27903) 413 29. Griffith/Sanborn (27054/26613) 416 30. Thompson/O'Donnell (24702/26664) 419 31. Lorson/D. Muhlhausen (28044/16104) 431 32. Irvine/Gallup (26398/28858) 434 33. Biehl/Oberg (29104/26130) 439 34. Mayol/McSweeney (27354/27444) 442 35. Diaz Jr./Patterson (28812/27391) 456 36. Bedford/Korkosz (29013/28648) 469 37. Reinke/Ward (25483/27568) 512
The competition was a good way for the competitors to guage their performance relative to Lee Griffith's opinion of them! It was also a big success in helping competitors at different levels meet each other and have some fun.
Thanks for the great idea Lee and I hope this award continues at subsequent Nationals.