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Was there really anything wrong with our format? Yes and No.
I believe every gate drop should mean something. It must play out to the big picture, not just gate picks, bragging rights and TV time. If it's not in the record books, it won't be remembered.
Triple Crown format works great for Monster Cup, due to the insured million on the line. Race 1 is exciting, let's see who has a chance to chase the big money tonight. Race 2 keeps you glued to the TV, can the winner from race 1 keep this rolling? Now there's two scenarios... The perfect storm, Trey Canard 2014, let's see if he can pull this thing off. Or a Justin Barcia win in 2012, which still keeps you anticipating the overall crown, with 3 different moto winners. The gate drops are lackluster without a sweep incentive. Feld must put a program in place for sweeping the evening... $50-$100k?
Our standard format builds suspense for the main events, which the current triple crown format does not.
To my final argument... retaining our standard heat/lcq/main format, what if we paid additional points to heat race winners? 4 additional points would be just enough to bump a 2nd place main event finish, to an overall win. This system would bring urgency to win at every gate drop, keeping our championship points tighter, and building anticipation for a true main event.
I believe every gate drop should mean something. It must play out to the big picture, not just gate picks, bragging rights and TV time. If it's not in the record books, it won't be remembered.
Triple Crown format works great for Monster Cup, due to the insured million on the line. Race 1 is exciting, let's see who has a chance to chase the big money tonight. Race 2 keeps you glued to the TV, can the winner from race 1 keep this rolling? Now there's two scenarios... The perfect storm, Trey Canard 2014, let's see if he can pull this thing off. Or a Justin Barcia win in 2012, which still keeps you anticipating the overall crown, with 3 different moto winners. The gate drops are lackluster without a sweep incentive. Feld must put a program in place for sweeping the evening... $50-$100k?
Our standard format builds suspense for the main events, which the current triple crown format does not.
To my final argument... retaining our standard heat/lcq/main format, what if we paid additional points to heat race winners? 4 additional points would be just enough to bump a 2nd place main event finish, to an overall win. This system would bring urgency to win at every gate drop, keeping our championship points tighter, and building anticipation for a true main event.
The Shop
Tomac and Anderson both won 5 out of 17 heat races in 2017. Less than 1/3.
Dungey won 7 out of 17.
It's about making each gate drop count on the night, and building suspense for the main.
Running behind in a main just toss in a few nac nac's or a backflip and your 're right back in the race. The fans would love it, die hard MX fans not so much but seems they are not catering to us anyway so why not go full blown circus.
Triple crown races pay 10 points per moto to win. Point totals drop by 1 each position. You’re out of the top 10 in any individual moto, you score 0 points. But still only drop 10 in the individual moto to the winner. Overall points leader at the end of 3 motos wins the overall. Tie breaker being the 3rd moto. Add an extra cash incentive as well in each triple crown race. For all riders. That way if you’re outside the top 10 in each race you will still get paid more than normal.
This way, 3 shorter races in the triple crown will equal the point total of a normal race for the top guys (or close to it at least) and an extra cash incentive. It also solves the problem of the third moto being meaningless.
For the record, I’m not a fan of this format for any points paying races. However, if we are going to have it, the last race of the night should certainly mean something. I feel like this is a good solution.
It's apropos, though. I've always thought of Supercross as a parody of real motocross.
(And don't kid yourself, a lot of people here -- maybe most of them -- would love it.)
What would I change?
I think the format of timed races is okay.
But all mains should get paid points.
That's how you make it not just a triple crown, but a tripleheader.
I can't see ratings going up with the current triple crown format. People have a hard enough time comprehending 2 outdoor motos.
Pit Row
For the current format, is it possible to do that without sucomming to the risk of an attrition depleted field rendering this new points structure not as useful as it currently is claimed to be? If this change was indeed made to benefit the points-scoring of main event winners, there's a reverse to the benefit in the form of a back-hand to the face of any rider that has a bad night during one of these triple-headers.
A huge loss of points in this scenario would seem rather brutal to both a rider and team.
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