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Old 01-17-2010 | 08:01 PM
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A point system where everyone who races, gets points, does not seem like a bad thing on the surface.

There is a suggestion that this unfairly gives advantage to bigger classes, but if you look at the options, any other would/does perhaps push racers into classes they don't want to run, or likely take away some of the joy to anyone less than A grade, who wants to feel like they are scoring something for their club.

Besides, with Nitro having 2 classes? run at interclub, and electric 4?, surely some of the worries about points spread should balance out over a round/rounds.
Not having sat down looking at all previous results, to 'me' it looks like the old system would favor electric, more classes meaning more points up for grabs, even with far less numbers overall in those classes.

As to smaller clubs being less able to place, well surely that is just the nature of anything?, if you rock up to the Olympic games from a country who has a population numbered in the thousands, do you seriously expect to win in the overall medal tally at the end?.


My final thought is, well if a class is popular enough to get big numbers 'wanting' to race in it, surely it's more than fair that it take out the most points at any given round?.
I mean after all, big numbers 'will' make it the premiere class in Brisbane/Qld etc, and surely the most popular/premiere single class deserves to pull the most points?.
(And by all means speak up and say why if you think otherwise).

But if you do think otherwise, then you already were supporting a points handicapping system, skewing results in favor of less popular classes, so really you perhaps race/support something you think is more worthy of a better points spread, and while there is nothing wrong with that, it's still asking to be rated at more than your classes worth on a local ranking scale.
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