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RickB · March 30, 2006, 01:55 PM

"One last thing, I was curious about, this newcomers friend was a supposed IPSC Grand Master and shot in my discipline and only scored in the Classifed class, just under marksman, can this be right? Sorry for the ignorance but I have not got around to shooting an IPSC match yet."

If the "other discipline" was IDPA, then it is very possible that a Grand Master might just make a minimum classification score. I was running a USPSA Master through the IDPA classifier, and before we'd gotten through the first stage (thirty of ninety total rounds), he'd dropped so many points that there was no way he'd make Expert, and perhaps not even Sharpshooter. I've run one USPSA Grand Master and a half-dozen Masters through the IDPA classifier, and none has made IDPA Master on the first try (or second, for that matter). It's a matter of applying the same skills in a different manner, suited to the scoring system.

March 30, 2006, 01:55 PM	#6
RickB Senior Member Join Date: March 1, 2000 Location: Boise, ID Posts: 8,518	"One last thing, I was curious about, this newcomers friend was a supposed IPSC Grand Master and shot in my discipline and only scored in the Classifed class, just under marksman, can this be right? Sorry for the ignorance but I have not got around to shooting an IPSC match yet." If the "other discipline" was IDPA, then it is very possible that a Grand Master might just make a minimum classification score. I was running a USPSA Master through the IDPA classifier, and before we'd gotten through the first stage (thirty of ninety total rounds), he'd dropped so many points that there was no way he'd make Expert, and perhaps not even Sharpshooter. I've run one USPSA Grand Master and a half-dozen Masters through the IDPA classifier, and none has made IDPA Master on the first try (or second, for that matter). It's a matter of applying the same skills in a different manner, suited to the scoring system.