Paragliding and hang gliding meets in Canada and Mexico count the
same as US meets. There is a restriction that only two foreign competitions
count toward your NTSS score. But Canadian and Mexican meets count not as
foreign meets but as US meets. Therefore you can have three or four meets
outside the US and have them count as though they were US meets.

David Wheeler <<davidrwheeler>>
writes:

It's not very popular with US paragliding competition organizers
and a fair number of paragliding pilots, I don't think it's going to last past
the next board meeting. Personally I don't think it supports US organizers and
was designed to let some people use their vacation days to attend one Mexican (
Winter ) and one European PWC ( Summer ) competition each year and still make
the team. Maybe with a single US comp as backup if the PWC doesn't go so well.

It was approved at the Spring 2013 board meeting as part of the significant
changes to NTSS.

The Spring 2013 board minutes do not record who proposed the changes and who on
the competition committee voted to accept the changes for presentation to the
board That information is probably in the competition committee minutes. On the
board Steve Kroop made the motion to accept the recommendations and Ryan Voight
seconded. Passed unanimously. Steve and Ryan are also on the competition
committee and in attendance so presumably they heard the discussions and voted
to present the recommendations to the board unchanged.

I was absent from the Spring board meeting and do not recall ever seeing the
proposals before they were approved. In the committee I give my opinions but
abstain on NTSS voting anyway to maintain impartiality as scorer. Maybe I'm
being too politically correct.