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At the professional level the answer would be no.
If we are concerned about the Joe Blows of the world understanding our two moto format wouldn't the easiest most logical thing to do is implement Olympic scoring like they use at 99.9 percent of MX tracks in the US? This would be beyond easy to implement and would help the guys in the booth, people at the race and at home to very easily calculate overall positions.
If we are concerned about the Joe Blows of the world understanding our two moto format wouldn't the easiest most logical thing to do is implement Olympic scoring like they use at 99.9 percent of MX tracks in the US? This would be beyond easy to implement and would help the guys in the booth, people at the race and at home to very easily calculate overall positions.
I'm kinda tired of everything being wrong with us, and how we need to change for the noob fan and his dollar.
They want to know what's up, they want to be part of it, let them figure it out.
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-At a local race a 2-2 beats a 1-3. Both are 4 points but the 2-2 gets the overall since the second moto finish is better.
-At an AMA national a 1-3 beats a 2-2. The nationals score on points. A 1-3 is 45 points (25+20) and a 2-2 is 44 points (22+22).
At least twice a year MXA copies and pastes their rant in the magazine on how the nationals need to use "olympic scoring".
The way some people post, makes me think they don't wear helmets.
a 1-3 beats a 2-2 anyday in my book, you hit the top step and that in itself carries a reward and should not be trumped by being 2nd twice, as good as it is being consistently there or there abouts it is not as good as being 1st - racing is about winning end of f'ing story
Glen Helen is not 99.9 percent of MX.
I think it would be stupid to have someone score more points than another individual and not beat them for an overall. To me that's even more confusing than what we have now. "So why did Rider A get second overall even though he scored one more point than rider B who got first overall?"
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Olympic scoring might sound simpler to understand, but try explaining this to "joe blow"
Lets say RV went 1-8 at hang town he would get 38 championship points and 9 "Olympic style points"
And Barcia went 4-4 an collected 36 championship points with 8 "Olympic style points" (obviously the lower score the better with the Olympic system)
Now try and explain to Joe Blow that after the first round in which Barcia beat RV, RV is now higher on the championship table!
I read the same complaints all the time over at MXA, if my memory serves me right they put something on their website complaining about the point system a while ago.
Those guys are the grumpy old ment that walked to and from school uphill both ways, in the snow with no shoes!
The magazine is a joke, they are he most bias media in the sport, they are so in bed with the Glen Helen guys it's rediculous!
They always used to praise the nationals and slam the GPs organizers.
When Glen Helen lost the national, and picked up the GP, Jody started slamming MX sports but started hailing Luango's organization and basically calling him a visionary.
The second Glen Helen lost the GP, MXA went straight back to slamming the GPs organizers.
MX Sports could cure cancer and MXA would say they did it wrong, the pill has side plates that are too small and doesn't have grab handles.
Sorry to turn this into a MXA rant, Rock I know you are buddies with those guys. But they need to realise there is a whole different MX world beyond the Glen Helen fence line!
I was about to post something about how I thought Vital was bad, then I posted in the RXonline comments under the observations, this place seemed sane... For a minute
I wiould give RV a 9.9 in difficulty, and a 9.5 in execution.
I also must always race in the 0.1% of tracks that use the same system as the pros
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