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The only possible benefit is if a guy came back and was still not 100% the first 2-3 rounds. With that said, sx and mx have more issues with guys injured at the middle and end of the season than the beginning.
Plus, it gives all those privateers and those outside the top ten 6 plus LESS chances to race a SX. Handicapping their ability to grow at a fair rate.
If they are saying that the length of the series inherently gives a good chance of one rider clinching early, then I second the motion to split the series into into Easts/West, Winter/Spring, whatever. Two equal championships.
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Please bring back air cooled, twin shock, run the number you earned the year before and 6 month delayed TV coverage.
All a chase does is create a regular season. Big money is still on the line every night for a race win. Ideally I would make a rider qualified for the chase only by finishing on the podium in a "regular season" race.
I guess we will see, but if the chase worked so well in motorsports why has NASCAR modified theirs multiple times since they started the chase format??
Not sure what I think about this yet....I guess it will change the saying that "you can't win the championship at A1 but you can lose it" to " you can't win the championship at A1 but you can't lose it either"......
My larger point is NASCAR is mainstream, we are not, they have the money to roll with the chase we do not. Again see smaller demo. I don't think this takes our sport main stream. I mean NASCAR did this as a way of "competing" with stick and ball sports to further their demo (which was already 5x or more than ours), after they had been "mainstream" and generated much more revenue, for many years.
As I mentioned in another post to do the chase properly (I stress IMO) you would have to mix up the east and west rounds so that not all early rounds where in the west and not all championship rounds were in the east. To compare to stick and ball sports and playoffs this is similar to the home field advantage concept. That adds an immense cost for teams, riders, privateers. Completely ruins the 250 continuity (what little there is). So purely from a money standpoint, would this make sense? again stress IMO no. There is no way it would generate enough money to offset those costs, especially at the team, rider, privateer level, little lone expand and grow revenue. Partly because again not many will care all that much, as this will do little to grow our demo, and again our demo is too small to begin with.
This does nothing to create excitement for the first 2.5 hours of every 3 hour night show. That is where you will have to start, because right now to few people care about our beloved SX Championship. (some amount of sarcasm)
This chase format is not about the championship, the riders or manufactures. It is 100% about TV ratings and money for FELD! FELD is willing to ruin the sport with a championship that is fixed. I do not care how you try and spin it a chase format is fixing the outcome of the championship.
Does that make any sense?
Soooo glad the little dick club wants to get personal...
Here is what I get, Princess:
1. It might let someone that gets injured early or in the pre-season have a shot at it.
Examples: Andrew or Trey
2. It might make it interesting or...might even cause a 250 rider to stay on a 450...
3. It makes the season "intriguing" again after an early season run-away...like this one.
You know, dude, little dick bug fuckers -like you- ALWAYS like to take jabs. Well, here's my jab...you ignorant little bitch: how much skin do you have in this game? how much do you put in on a privateer or an up-n-comer?
To be clear, you ass hole: what the fuck do you do other than bitch ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
Since you threw shit in my direction, I invite you to GFY & EABOBOD.
Have a nice day you whinny little dicked bug fucker.
A note: waaaay too many of you just bitch, whine and moan ALL the damn time. It gets old. As do you, Zracer.
To anyone-else I've offended, other than lil-dick Znonracer, I apologize.
Go in sx without eliminating riders, someone can still have a bad race and win the championship. Look at Webb and savatgy. I think one reason the 250sx championship is always so close is because they only have 8 races. Imagine that.
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Again, playoffs are necessary in team sports where they aren't all playing each other every week. A post season playoff in our sport would be better executed by taking the champions of supercross and motocross and having them race each other in a race that combined both disciplines. But I guess that what the Monster Energy Cup is already suppose to be?
I'm not trying to argue just trying to understand the idea of a chase in racing.
*Only last post quoted for ML
But who knows, maybe this idea will catch on and at the Olympics, the runners in a 100 yd dash will have to stop at the 75 yard line and do a reset for the last 25 yards. Makes perfect sense.
post was that it was waaaaaay too short
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