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I'd like to see what everyone says about this. If you haven't heard it, check out the last 20 minutes of Main Event Moto where Daniel Blair gives his best pitch for the chase. He had a good idea for it that I hadn't heard before where the top 7 before the points reset would go to the "playoffs". Meaning the races before the points reset WOULD be for something. Guys would be fighting to stay in that top 7 and there could even be a reward to the top guy for his consistency.
I gotta say it's swung me indefinitely in favor of it. I was halfway sold on it before, but it just makes sense now. How much of a bummer is it that we know Anderson will likely (barring a disaster) get this title, SIX ROUNDS IN? What about that makes you look forward to Vegas?? He said it right: supercross is a 17 chapter story and every story should have an exciting ending. Not a predictable one.
I gotta say it's swung me indefinitely in favor of it. I was halfway sold on it before, but it just makes sense now. How much of a bummer is it that we know Anderson will likely (barring a disaster) get this title, SIX ROUNDS IN? What about that makes you look forward to Vegas?? He said it right: supercross is a 17 chapter story and every story should have an exciting ending. Not a predictable one.
I don't care about the points and who wins the title as long as the racing is good. Will a chase format make the racing better? Absolutely not, the risk is that it makes it way, way worse when riders can back it down because they know they don't need to pass the guy in front of them because it wont change anything. It would basically make some of the actual main events like heat races, you think that is a good idea?
In a way i would actually like to see one season of the chase, just so that people in favor of it would see how stupid it would be. At the same time i might be proven wrong, but i doubt it.
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In racing, everyone races each other at the same time so that regular season/playoff structure is unnecessary. A chase format would be like saying the first 4 games of the NBA championship only count for bonus points in game 5.
Hearing people on social media say our sport needs a playoff structure is ridiculous. Alternatively, think about it this way, we already have the structure to some degree each weekend.
Daytime qualifying = regular season
Qualifying races = playoffs
Main event = final
Imagine if Webb, who isn’t in the chase, cleans out Roczen, who is in the chase, in a chase round? Nothing dumber than having a “playoff” where the non playoff riders are competing alongside the playoff riders.
What do they think it's REALLY going to do? TV is already at an all time high.
Quit trying to fix something that's not broken.
It would be a complete disaster if that scenario would become a reality one day.
I've been trying to watch Arenacross more lately and while there's some interesting racing their convoluted, pseudo championship thing makes in impossible for me to really get into it.
Make the racing on the track exciting = more eyeballs.
A chase wont make the racing better.
was a great championship battle but it didn't get SX on Sportscenter . I come from a family of sports fans , they think MX/SX is boring .
Pit Row
So.. not too shabby.
The rest of your perfect world scenario is nothing but a pipe dream. And a chase format will certainly not do it and run the chance of alienating some.
What I don't understand is how some in the industry want it and the majority of the fan's don't....to change just for the sake of change is just plain stupid.
Please somebody explain to me how this is going to make the racing better...please.
And something to think about.....what if these six races were the chase? So much for tightening up the points race huh!
Just let em race and enjoy how it unfolds...
What is the point of even changing a series to something other than the # rounds? The only thing I see is to make it so people with no attention span have something new/short term to pay attention to.
It's just totally different to racing.
The NASCAR playoff system is absurd. If you want to have a true playoff, park everyone but the drivers actually in the playoffs!
Like you say, the easiest way to make racing better is the track designs and the dirt. I guess smaller displacement would also be a step in the right direction but that is not a realistic thing to ask for. The current 250 class could be limited to 200 cc bikes and the 450 class to 350 cc bikes.
Racers aren't entitled for participation points resets.
Imagine an in shape JS7 coming in, or Dungey, races last races and wins title even if say they started 25 points out.
NASCAR is steel wheels, school bus steering wheel having, heavy, crappy turning, slow, crap.
Why would we want to dumb ourselves down?
Blair says it would make better racing. Hmmmm aren't these guys supposed to go balls out each and every time?
If not, maybe they should be bonus only and make them hungry.
Sounds ridiculous, and all I did was change the scale.
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