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Split-fleet series (qualifying / final)

Championship scoring where a large entry races in qualifying fleets, then splits into Gold/Silver/Bronze for a final series on one continuous points line — the RRS Appendix LE Addendum C format. Each example is drawn from a real ILCA/Optimist/… championship (see its provenance line) and shows the combined, fleet-tinted standings a scorer would publish; medal-race points are doubled and shown in bold. See docs/design/split-fleets/format-survey.md.

Examples

#Scenario
1 F1 continuous carry: fleets seeded by ranking, qualifying scores carry into the final total, Gold outranks Silver
2 F1 IODA: exactly one discard, unlocked at 5 races — there is never a second
3 F2 medal race: doubled non-discardable medal points, and the extra race for everyone else scored below the medal fleet
4 D1 no split: too few races to divide the fleet — the qualifying ranking is the official result
5 D3 finale scheduled but never sailed: the extra race for the boats outside the medal fleet does not run, and the opening series stands
6 D5 unequal final counts: Gold sails more final races than Silver — both score correctly
7 D6 qualifying closed early: abandoned days force the split at the minimum race count
8 D8 equalisation: a qualifying race one fleet never sailed does not count for anyone
9 D10 redress across the split: RRS A9(a) average points (fractional) and promotion into a higher fleet
10 Reassignment: seed by ranking, then reshuffle the fleets by standings after each day
11 Penalties on finishers (SCP/DPI): tenth-of-a-point rounding, the DNF cap, and a medal-race code doubled with the rest of the race
12 Frozen rounds: a protest decided after the next round is drawn re-scores the standings but never re-deals the fleets
13 F3 compressed carry: the medal boats' opening-series score is halved before the medal races add to it, and the compression changes the winner
14 The last-day extra race for the boats who did not qualify: scored from just below the Final series, with the qualified boats absent from it rather than scored DNC in it
15 F3 tie-break: the halved carry leaves two boats level and the sailing instructions replace RRS A8 outright — the last race alone decides, against what A8 would have said
16 A tie RRS A8 cannot break stays a tie: shared rank in the combined qualifying standings, with the count-back-broken ties alongside for contrast
17 F3 abandoned finale: the Final series never sails, the halving is undone, and the boat one point ahead on the Qualification series takes the title
18 F1 ILCA 2026: the labels the notice board posted (QP/QE), and a discard that may fall in either stage
19 F2: a tie broken on the medal race before rule A8, where A8 alone would have decided it the other way
20 F2: one fleet, never split — an opening series and a medal race, with the medal race outside the discard ladder
21 One fleet, never divided, and one more opening race for the boats who miss the medal cut, scored below the medal fleet
22 A medal boat recorded on the companion race's sheet is not in that race: her row scores nothing and moves nobody
23 A medal boat who missed a final-series race before the cut is scored DNC in it: only the companion race is not hers
24 F1: one qualifying fleet split into Gold and Silver, whose final series races score double and may not be excluded
25 One qualifying fleet split into Gold and Silver, each boat's qualifying score halved into the final series, ties on the last race
26 A repêchage sailed as one fleet, ranked on its own races, its top two promoted into a Final Series that carries nothing
27 A repêchage sailed in two fleets, each ranked on its own, one boat promoted from each
28 No repêchage sailed: the last seats filled from the qualifying ranking, as the sailing instructions' fallback directs
29 A repêchage after Gold and Silver, open to a Silver boat because the medal races carry nothing
30 Two qualifying flights each ranked on their own: the top two of each go through, 3rd–5th of each sail a repêchage for the last two seats
31 Each flight ranked on its own after the flights sail unequal numbers of races: every race counts for the flight that sailed it
32 Rule A5.3 in a qualifying flight: a DNS and a DNF scored from the boats that came to the starting area, a DNC from the entries