Open Cross Country Task scoring with TP

Open Cross Country Task Option

One has 4 options when creating an Open XC task

A Free XC with only a takeoff and fly as far as you can in any direction. RACE can cater for this. Task gets defined by 1 point, which is the takeoff, only
An Axis based open XC. Fly along a Heading. One gets scored normal onto the axis and then the distance from there. Example, fly along the Thabazimbi road as far away from The Dam as possible. Task gets defined by 2 points, the takeoff and one direction point. For example The Dam and Brits 4way stop.
An Open XC with a SS and optional turnpoints. For RACE the score gets treated like Free XC measured from landing to takeoff. Example from The Dam takeoff, have an SS Cylinder around takeoff to keep everyone until 13.00 inside the Cylinder, then have them all fly to 4 way stop in Brits and then they can go any direction they like. Winner is who gets at the end of the day the furtheest distance from takeoff. Task gets defined by a TO, a SS, and some optional turnpoints
And Open XC along an Axis with SS and optional Turnpoints. For RACE this gets treated like an Open Axis Heading task. The pilot who gets the furthest on a pojected distance along an axis wins. Example, from The Dam along the Thabazimbi road, with an SS around Takeoff of 1km, and SS opens at 13.00 to leave the cylinder, and one has to fly through a 400m Cylinder at the Brits 4 way stop and then along the Thabazimbi road and get as far as possible along that road. A Task gets defined by TO, SS, and some optional turnpoints. And the last point is NOT used as a turnpoint but is the axis direction from take off.

The RACE score data in the XML or direct database interface gets sent as ABS pilot kms. No furthest coords. And Pilot is LO.

Open XC Task with an Start Cylinder and optional Turnpoints

Honestly, SS is fine, but forget about the turnpoints. It makes the task and scoring messy. And the final km score gets measured towards takeoff. What is fine if a pilot made it past the last compulsory turnpoint and is on the free distance leg.
But how do we score a pilot who missed a TP? Or never made it to the last turnpoint? Do we score him like in a normal task? The code takes the trackpoint closest to the next turnpoint that he was aiming for and then scores this track point to takeoff for distance. Confusing??? Yeah, try and explain this to the pilots...
Recommend, have no turnpoints and less confusion and keep it simple.

Whatever.. here is how those tasks get defined.

An Open XC with a SS start cylinder and one Turnpoint and then it is free Open XC from then onwards

First a TO TakeOff
Then a SS with 2 km , in this case around takeoff area, and pilots have to stay inside of it
and then a turnpoint with a 400 m cylinder .

a sample score of a pilot who made it past the last Turnpoint

And here is an example of a pilot who sank out before reaching the last compulsory turnpoint

Example of an Open XC with SS and an Axis direction to follow a certain Heading Task

TO TakeOff as usual
A SS start cylinder with a 2km radius , to be crossed from the inside after the startgate opens
And the last point , called AXIS, defines the direction from takeoff towards that point, that the pilots have to follow.

A score would then look like this

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