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Announcement: The F-Class Points Series and the V² Finale

Jay Christopherson

Jay Christopherson

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"The best indicator of skill is reliable consistency, not peak performance."​


We are excited and pleased to publicly announce the establishment of a new annual series and event for F-Class shooters. Our hope and expectation is that the V² Finale will become a premier destination shooting event for F-Class competitors, alongside US F-Class Nationals and the Southwest Nationals.

The V² Finale is presented as an annual, season culminating invitational competition designed by competitors, for competitors. We’re taking a page from the NCAA, conducting a matchup style tournament that will ensure that each competitor competes against an opponent on a level playing field - no relay excuses. No puller excuses. No firing point alibis. Just you and your immediate opponent for each round of the match.

An F-Class Points Series event, the V² Finale is conducted as a 3-day tournament, with exceptional sponsors. Points, seed rankings, and invites are based off of competitors year long performance at qualifying LR matches around the country. In 2021, the V² Finale will be held 11-13 of June at Dead Zero Shooting Range in Tennessee.

The F-Class Points Series (FPS) group has created an extensive information packet that should answer any and all questions regarding the year long Points Series, how points are accumulated through qualifying matches, how invites are obtained through consistent performance, and how the V² Finale itself will be conducted, along with prize and award information.

Detailed information, announcements, and event conversation can be found here:

The current 2020 Points Leaderboard can be found here:

We hope that every F-Class competitor is as excited as we are by this new event and look forward to watching the competition throughout the year as Leaderboard points are accumulated towards an invite to the V² Finale!


Sincerely,

The FPS Group
  • Jay Christopherson
  • Tod Hendricks
  • Ian Klemm
  • John Masek
  • Drew Rutherford
  • Dan Pohlabel
  • Erik Cortina

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Congrats to the hard work in putting this together - and to conclude 2021 at Dead Zero is an added bonus !!
 
Fantastic!!!!! This will bring a new dimension to F-class competition. I’m excited. Thanks to the BoD for putting this together and thanks to VV and Vortex.
 
Extremely worthwhile endeavor! I hope the FPS board can get this off the ground! You have my total support!
 
fbraun said:
Extremely worthwhile endeavor! I hope the FPS board can get this off the ground! You have my total support!
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Thanks @fbraun! The good news is that this is officially off the ground - the venue is booked, the logistics have been sorted, the sponsors are lined up, and the system for the first year is in place. All anyone has to do at this point to participate is get out there and shoot at LR events! We worked really hard to have these sorts of details in place before making an announcement, so that people would have a new event to work for and to continue to try to generate interest and motivation in competition shooting.
 
Interesting format, but obviously set up for high master open class .To prove my point, how many national or even State champions have not been open class?
 
PAPA65 said:
Interesting format, but obviously set up for high master open class .To prove my point, how many national or even State champions have not been open class?
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I have no idea where you see this - there are two classes, FTR and F-Open. Both with equal # of competitors (32). Both shooting against their own equipment category, for the same prizes and the same recognition. There's no "overall" winner and classes play no part in any of this. We don't even recognize the NRA classes, for the purposes of this event. If you don't shoot in matches throughout the year & participate, you won't earn points and therefore, you won't be invited. The seeding into the tournament is completely merit based.

And to your question - every single state and national F-Class championship recognizes BOTH Open and FTR. There's no such thing as a "F-Class" national champion or state champion. The only time a single category is recognized, is when the participation falls below the bar of recognition (typically, 5 shooters in a class).
 
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PAPA65 said:
Interesting format, but obviously set up for high master open class .To prove my point, how many national or even State champions have not been open class?
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Not quite...there will be separate F-TR and F-Open classes- 32 shooters each. Will it be biased toward HM? No more than the winner of any match. It is not uncommon for a M to win a match with a lot of HM's. However, a HM is more likely to place consistently at/near the top of the score sheet at any given match and this match is designed to have have to head competition of the most consistent high scoring LR F-class shooters in the country. If I am shooting consistently high scores I will likely be a HM in my respective class. So, does it bias toward HM's....yes...and that is not a bad thing.
 
rardoin said:
Not quite...there will be separate F-TR and F-Open classes- 32 shooters each. Will it be biased toward HM? No more than the winner of any match. It is not uncommon for a M to win a match with a lot of HM's. However, a HM is more likely to place consistently at/near the top of the score sheet at any given match and this match is designed to have have to head competition of the most consistent high scoring LR F-class shooters in the country. If I am shooting consistently high scores I will likely be a HM in my respective class. So, does it bias toward HM's....yes...and that is not a bad thing.
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With the matchup / double elimination format, there is always the dark horse effect. Anyone is subject to nerves/mistakes when under pressure to perform in the moment.

And - I would argue that this is not biased towards "HM" - it's biased towards the most *consistent* shooters. You're going to have to win multiple rounds in order to emerge as the winner. One or two great strings or even a single great round is not going to do it. So a single peak performance is not going to put you in the winner's matchup. That's a large part of the reason for this format - to reduce the "peak performance" effect.

IMO, NRA classification is more or less meaningless, at least for F-Class. Anyone can easily game the measurement if they care about it that much. Shoot some palma's at a known calm range, don't provide your NRA number when shooting at windy ranges or avoid shooting them altogether until you get your classification and... boom. You're a HM. 120 shots in F-Class to classify is a pretty useless measure. It probably more meaningful in FTR than Open, for certain, but you see a fair number of "EX" or "SS" or "MK" that perform quite well against the so-called "HM" shooters in both categories.
 
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If you are winning lots of matches and you're not a high master, it's only because you just started and the NRA isn't up to speed on your scores yet. So yeah, there will be lots of high masters. But I would say that in general, f class classifications are a bit of a joke, especially in open. You can pretty much ignore them.
 
PAPA65 said:
Interesting format, but obviously set up for high master open class .To prove my point, how many national or even State champions have not been open class?
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To me it favors the guy that goes out and puts in the work regardless of your classification. The more matches you shoot the better your odds of earning points. The more matches you shoot the better you will become as a shooter. The more ranges you shoot the more tools in the tool bag (you can never have to many tools).....I'm fighting for the 32nd spot, once in, all I have to do is beat the guy laying next to me on a level playing field.....anyone can be neat on any given day.....try to be the windshield and not the bug.

Just my perspective.
 
Rope2horns said:
To me it favors the guy that goes out and puts in the work regardless of your classification. The more matches you shoot the better your odds of earning points. The more matches you shoot the better you will become as a shooter. The more ranges you shoot the more tools in the tool bag (you can never have to many tools).....I'm fighting for the 32nd spot, once in, all I have to do is beat the guy laying next to me on a level playing field.....anyone can be neat on any given day.....try to be the windshield and not the bug.

Just my perspective.
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This is it exactly. I could not have put it better Norm.
 
good stuff

Are the competitors automatically entered into the leader board from the match results from that match director's submission?

if Joe Smoe finishes 2nd at the Carpet Baggers State Championship but doesn't know about the FPS, is that competitor's score kept on the FPS leader board? or is each competitor in charge of keeping the FPS leader board committee up to date on their scroes?
 
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