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iTrader: (4)

Your opinion is your opinion, and you are quite entitled to it.

As a quick response;

1) Non-championship events - You've totally missed the flexiability of formats for such events, as they are all to be left to clubs discretion - See proposal for 2.4.2. If a Club wants to run a different format with different number of counting rounds, great, go for it. Let the committee know and it's all good. Hell, try Reedy format if you want, or 5 counting finals... The counting rules proposed are intended ONLY for state and nationals championships, where it would be expected to follow the 5 and 3 format.
Your point about the rules working better as they are for non-championships events is just not valid when the proposals give the clubs the flexibility to run a sanctioned event with (almost) whatever format they want. We want clubs to be inventive, and feel like they can try new things... and these days that is part of the challenge to get people to attend events.

2) Wet weather/delays - as clearly outlined in the proposals, the current rule sets wet weather rules are contradictory and in various different places throughout the rule book. Going to a single section that takes precedence is far simpler, in the eyes of many racers. Just look at how long you and I took at NSW state titles trying to find all the relevant regulations in the rule book, when we could have turned to one section and be done with it. The current rules just do not have this ease.

3) Counting of finals - The committee as a whole agreed that counting qualifying is worth contributing to the overall results, when a delay happens. All feedback we have had from racers has been generally positive in this regard. Bare in mind a lot has changed since 2010.

As a genral comment trust me, we would not have put any proposals forward if we didn't feel they would make events better.

Do feel free to contact us directly to discuss this more, as the option has always been there. The email address is in this thread, and all the committees phone numbers are easily available too. This goes for any club out there who have questions regarding any of the proposals.