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dkg for any poll to be valid the options must all be viable/possible. As I understand it the Chase ship has already sailed so an option of no Chase would be as meaningful as me preparing to qualify for the 450 class at A1 in January.
tropicpilot-Thank you for the feedback. Why debate the merits of the chase in this thread when 1) the 3 and 3 thread already exists and 2) the Chase will happen so it is a waste of time to provide feedback on why the Chase shouldn't.
This is a reset in points for anyone that makes it to the playoffs. If it wasn't it wouldn't be the playoffs, it would just simply be game #19.... and there wouldn't be a Super Bowl because someone like the Patriots would probably clinch the championship a few games early.
All I'm trying to do is say, prove, I don't know, that this idea of "ONLY POINT TOTALS SHOW THE REAL CHAMPION" around the discussion is kind of crazy. We hold a so many athletes in high regards in which their sports revolve around a more traditional tournament format that it's proven it won't all of a sudden make a shitty football team into a miracle at the end season and it wont destroy the championship of someone who works hard for it, the cream always rises. It just rises a bit more condensed.
Thoughts on other ideas:
Change the tracks – you can't make it too slow because that's less exciting. While supercross is technical as fuck the "casual viewer" isn't looking at which finger the rider uses for the clutch, pointer or middle. Besides, "These are the best supercross riders in the world" - Emig, they're going to adapt and find speed pretty quick and all of a sudden we're back at, "we need slower tracks".
Less people in the main - Boo that, keep it what it is. Not only does it mean we can keep a main event pure like it's been for records but look how exciting going through lap traffic has been. You want to that slows down a track; lappers slow down tracks.
Points increase as the season goes on! - And we're afraid of Chase format because of how it might make a mid-pack rider into a midnight hero? Somehow... over four races (where I think the final reset should happen) this mystery rider would shock the world and beat Dungey... four times... at the end of a season. Just imagine having Vegas being this crazy point multiplier race and someone jumping from 6th to 1st because Dungey gets a flat. Not to mention that no one does this, it's confusing, it feels like doing tricks in a motocross game (other than a whip, a taunt whip, or a NacNac), and the amount of times I would have to look up what the point increase was for the week would be pretty unnecessary.
Two main events - good bye records. Right then everything Dungey is working on is dead in the water. It would also mean shorter mains which I am against because I find it enjoyable to see who's prepared like a champ to run a full 20 and who didn't.
Less Races - I honestly love this one. Keeps the points race closer, someone could still run away with it, but at least it wouldn't be a whole second half of the season. Biggest problem with this though is that you don't really grow a sport by removing your face from television. We get some solid numbers, and with the new Stadiums it's had a huge impact on viewership.
It's an interesting thing to talk about it – I'm enjoying looking at what we can do to improve it.
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-Chase begins after Easter break
-No points reset.
-Something along the line of double points with an even bigger swing between 1-3: 60 for 1st, 50 2nd, 30 3rd but keep 4-22 to the same points structure.
-I wouldn't be against the idea of limiting chase rounds to the top 22 riders in points only. Make the final rounds the best of the best only.
And whatever, WHAT EVER, they do, NO GREEN PLATES. I went to Arenacross a few weeks back and the green plates with white numbers were a nightmare to see (especially for teams who use the same gear for all the riders.) Chase plates should be silver or gold, if we really insist on a different color.
12 Race SX series (6 West / 6 East).
5 Race Monster Energy Cup series (450 and 250 classes)
- use their unique format. large purse.
- top 3 in 250's "regular season" SX series (East/West...6 total) mandatory to race 450 class
Oh, my biggest worry is incentives causing even more injuries than now. Don't know the percentage of riders gone more than 2 races in recent yrs, seems enough.
Please don't take the NASCAR post personal. Saw an entrance in and wanted to vent.
For my part;
1) Yeah, when I started the 3 on 3 thread, it was mostly to debate the validity of having a Chase format. By the time I weighed in on this thread, there were already a number of wild suggestions and their merits were already being debated by other members. In this thread, my first post was to propose that we make changes to the tracks, not the points system, so I was keeping within your original intent.
2) Even if the rumor is true and it's a foregone conclusion that Feld is going to implement a Chase-style system, that is hardly going to end the debate. They are contemplating a radical change, and they had better get it right or they could really screw with the integrity of the sport. My comments didn't really feel like a waste of time and I guess I was just having a little fun my Mr. T meme. You seem pretty intent on moderating this thread and I felt like lightening the mood. No hard feelings, brother.
1) Supercross isn't broken
2) Don't try to fix what isn't broken
3) The entire idea of a Chase format sucks.
Accepting your context implies that a chase under any set of rules is acceptable, and it is not to the majority.
Gretzy did the same thing to hockey. They had to change the rules because he destroyed so many records.
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