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tise and run the match. Onlyone club in a Section may holda special on the same weekend.All courses must come from theUSPSA classifier book, andmust be reported on approvedforms and score sheets. The resultsof the monthly classifiermust be received within 30days of the match.A "Special," when run withina regular club match, will allowa shooter to get up to fourscores toward his classification(one regular and three "special"courses). In this case, a shootercan have his card the month afterthe match is submitted toheadquarters.Mission Count / ActivityCosts are as follows:Standard Club shoot withmonthly classifier.41.00 per shooter for amonthly classifier course runwith a regular club shoot.41.00 per shooter for theclub shoot. Total costs from aregular club match in which aclassifier is run is $2.00 pershooter.*Mission count is 2 pointsper shooter, with .25 additionalpoints per USPSA membercredited.Costs for a club shoot with a"Special"41.00 per shooter for eachclassifier course run at theevent. (Maximum four coursesand $4.)41.00 per shooter for theclub shoot. Total costs if fourclassifier courses are run is $5per shooter.*Mission count is earnedonly for the club match and oneregular classifier course. Thisamounts to two points pershooter, and .25 additionalpoints per USPSA member. The"Speciar classifier courses runwithin a club match do not increasea club's mission countpoints.USPSA will finish enteringscores on the 10th of eachmonth and calculate classificationsby the 15th. Shooters whobecome newly classified shouldreceive a classification card bythe end of the month. Shooterswhose classes are changing willbe reclassified every 90 days, oras necessary.The "New" USPSA Classification System:What it is and how it worksThe USPSA classificationsystem now enters as many as10,000 scores a month andmanages thousands of classifiedshooters, with more than80,000 individual scores on file.Many of our shooters are newand do not have a full understandingof the system and howit works. We hope that this willanswer some of the questions.USPSA has six classes in eachcategory—Open and Limited—with classifications percentagesas follows:Grand Master ... 95 to 100%Master 85 to 94.9%A 75 to 84.9%60 to 74.9%40 to 59.9%2 to 39.9%Shooters are awarded a classbased on a series of percentagesthat are calculated for them.Each percentage is the score(hit factor) they shot on a specificstage divided by the maxi-mum hit factor used for thatstage. The stage maximums arecalculated from scores of thetop shooters and are themselves'averages' of the verybest shooters on that stage.Generally, the top 10 scores areaveraged to find the maximumhit factor used in the calculation.Since these top shooterscan, and sometimes do, makequantum changes in theirequipment or technique, themaximum hit factor has tochange as well. A particularshooter's hit factor of 5.64 mayrepresent 63 percent of thestage maximum at one time,but some time later it may representonly 62 percent if the topshooters have forced a changein the stage maximum.To become classified, ashooter must have four validscores submitted. Most of thescores will come from affiliatedclub match classifiers specifi-cally set up from the publishedlist of authorized classificationstages. The clubs are responsiblefor setting up these stagesaccording to exact specificationsand for administeringthem uniformly. They are partof the club's monthly match andare included in the calculationof the match results as well asbeing submitted for nationalclassification of the shooter. Byboard policy, shooters participatingin matches which containa classifier stage are allowedto repeat that stage atthe convenience of match officialsfor classification purposesonly. The first score of the classificationstage must be used tocalculate match standings, butthe best single run of the classificationstage may be sent infor classification.The clubs must send in aclassification report, which canNEW SYSTEM continued on page 82.Page 8 September/October 1996