Anyone done a Top Score jumping class?

[JoBo]

I have entered a top score class on Sunday but never done one. I believe there are certain height jumps and you get more points for jumping the bigger fences, is this right?

Do you plan your course before you go in or just make it up when you are in there? Any tips would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jo

 

[stencilface]

Plan the course, and keep doing the highest scoring fences over and over until the time runs out. Good luck, they are fun!

 

[CaleruxShearer]

Yup - there brill - can't really give you anymore advice apart from that Stencilfaces is pretty much spot on.

 

[teddybrowne]

If it's not a drawn order, try and go last - that way you'll get to see which lines ride well and what's the score to beat. Also, be flexible - if you go in with a fixed course in your mind and knock one down which you plan to be a multiple, you need to be aware of an alternative. Check the rules carefully - there may be limits as to how many times you can jump a fence, and how many you need to jump inbetween. (you can't just keep jumping 2 fences repeatedly)

Enjoy - they're lots of fun!

 

[Jade2007]

Try and make a course of the jumps you want to jump (try to jump the ones with the most points!) and keep going round the course until your time is up. When I did one, we had one minute and if you had a refusal it didnt matter (your own time was wasted) however if you knocked it down you didn't get the points for that jump and couldn't jump it again. You couldn't jump the joker more than 3 times aswell. You'll have to check at the show, though. They're great fun!! Good luck, what show are you going to?

 

[Jade2007]

Oh, are you going to the Sheppey show? I've always wanted to go but last year we had influenza up our yard (we were in quarentine for a month) and this year Boomer's lame and Tinker hasn't got a saddle! Damn it, I will meet Bodey one day! lol. Well good luck, whatever show you are going to. I expect a report and photos

 

[SpruceRI]

We ran some Topscore classes at our RC show last year.

The first one we gave the competitors 90 secs to jump as many jumps as they could, the maximum number of times they could jump each fence was 3, and if they knocked any down, we wouldn't put them up mid-round.

But 90 secs was too long as we ended up with one person who had no jumps left to jump as she'd whizzed round and done them all in the time, and 2 kids that had nothing left to jump as they'd knocked them all down!!

So Show No.2 we put in more jumps and less time (60 secs).

That worked out better, but we were taking off the marks for the fence if people knocked them down, so some people ended up with minus points - really hard for the Commentator to say ' the last competitor had -50 points'!!

Lastly a row ensued with a kid who knocked down a jump next to the collecting ring where some friendly person went and put the jump back up during her round, so she came round the corner and jumped it again, and knocked it down! So she ended up on minus points too and her mother didn't like it.

The whole thing was such a nightmare, that on Show No.3, we ran a Scurry instead!!!

 

[SpruceRI]

p.s I used to love riding in Top Score classes because it gave you the opportunity to jump bigger fences than you normally would, but if you chickened out of doing them at the last minute, no one was going to make you!!

 

[Racing_Gal]

there loads of fun, plan your course but just include the 4 biggest (highest, scoring) fences and just keep going over the same course until the time runs out.