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CFDA scores by losses. What matters is how many Xs you have.  Because of that you can calculate range time by counting Xs needed to complete an event. For illustration, at our last event we had 39 shooters. For each full round we got 19 losses. We shot 5 no x rounds for 95 losses.  In the shoot off we had 38 shooters with 3 shooters being clean so we needed 35 losses in the shoot offs.  For our last monthly shoot therefore we had 120 losses, which is the equivalent 6.3 full rounds (120/19=6.3). That is a useful bit of information to know for thinking about other formats.   For our state shoot discussion assume we have 120 shooters. A full round would result in 60 losses. If we are going to give each 5 Xs with a magnificent 10 shoot off, the total losses to complete the main match would be computed as follows:  100 shooters would get 5 losses for 500 losses. Twenty Magnificent shooters would average no more than 2 losses each for additional 40 losses, so...

I have shot in 7 bracket matches this year, 3 at titled events, 1 at the Camp and 3 at Shady Mountain.  Brackets definitely have some advantages over other side matches. One shooter's perspective:   Lil' James absolutely loved the bracket match he got to shoot in at South Dakota. He has shot in about 10 title matches and he is not thrilled with shooting the 2nd chance shoots where he is normally eliminated early.  At South Dakota he was in a 17 shooter bracket where he was as quick as any of the shooters. He finished 4th having lost to the top three in 2-2 matches by a less than 10 milliseconds.  Great fun and competition.   Only CFDA Bracket.   The only CFDA bracket match shot in Arizona in the last 7 years, (except title matches, Shady Mtn, and Rio's two magnificent shoots) was the bracket match shot at the Camp in May.  We had 18 shooters and I think it was really enjoyed by all except there was some grumbling about the size of the targets....