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At present, in the increasingly fierce competition of domestic pigeon competitions, the previous competition system of a race to determine the king has gradually faded out in the short and medium distance races, and the multi-pass competition system that is more in line with the needs of pigeon breeding quality is more and more accepted by pigeon lovers.
The conditions for holding the carrier pigeon multi-level competition system are: the same racing unit, with the same batch of pigeons, at the same time in a certain division of the release of the event, for multiple places to fly multiple events.
There are currently three ways to select ace pigeons in the multi-level competition in the refereeing rules of the pigeon raceThe first is based on the average velocity (total distance, total flight time), with the highest velocity taking precedenceThe second way is to calculate the ranking based on the sum of the speed of a single level, and the one with the highest speed is the first;The third method is to calculate the ranking based on the sum of the rankings of the individual levels, and the lower number of rankings is the first.
When it comes to the method of selecting ace pigeons in the multi-pass races, it is necessary to first talk about the calculation of the results in the single-pass races. For the calculation of single-level results, it is currently accepted that the most reasonable method is to calculate the ranking based on the speed of the flight, and the one with the highest score speed is the first. This is because in the same race, in the same release time, release location, climatic conditions, geographical environment and other competition conditions, the flight speed of the carrier pigeon is ranked, and the ranking obtained by this calculation method is relatively reasonable to reflect the homing ability of the participating carrier pigeons in this race under the same conditions.
Let's talk about the difference between flight speed and ranking in the competition. The speed of the flight is only a reflection of the speed of a pigeon in a race, this speed is only a value, this value does not represent its ability to return home in a race. The ranking is the ranking of the pigeons in the same race compared to the respective flight speeds, so only the ranking reflects the pigeon's ability to arrive home in this race. The above shows that the concepts of flight speed and race ranking are different and have different meanings, and the two cannot be substituted for each other.
Due to the different release time, release location, climatic conditions and geographical environment of each race, although it is the same batch of pigeons, the flight speed of the result is also different. For example, if you race on a downwind day in race A, it may be a speed of more than 1500 meters, and in a headwind day or side headwind in race B, it may be a speed of less than 1100 meters. In fact, in one loft races or local races with a large number of pigeons, even if you fly 1,200 meters in a race over 1,500 meters, you may already be in the top 1,000 or less in a race with a speed of less than 1,100 meters. Therefore, it cannot be said that the pigeon that flew 1200 meters in race A is better than the winner who flies 1100 meters in race B. This means that in two races with different conditions, it is not possible to compare the pigeon's ability to return home with their respective velocity values.
Due to the fact that the single-level system has been in place for decades, the relatively fair method of calculating the single-level ranking based on the speed of the flight has been deeply ingrained, so it is generally acceptable to use the sum of the scores to rank the ace pigeons in the transition to the multi-level system. In fact, the recognition of the method of calculating the results in the single-level system is only the recognition or admiration of the ranking in the same race compared with the speed of the pigeon (the ranking reflects the pigeon's ability to return home), not the recognition or admiration of the speed of the flight in the championship.
The above shows that the method of selecting ace pigeons in the multi-level competition using the sum of the multi-pass scores, with the highest speed first, is actually using the absolute value of the flight speed generated under different geographical conditions to compare, and the comparison of the pigeon's homing ability with the value of the isolated flight speed is obviously not reasonable.
Since the ace pigeon selection is a race between the kings (rankings) in each race, it makes more sense to use the method of the sum of the rankings that represent the homecoming ability of each race, with the smaller number first.