Awarding points based on how far riders progress on lines
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In the other discussion "Makeing finals more entertaining for the audience" we came to the aspect of awarding points based on how far riders progress on lines. Mark suggested to open a seperate discussion for this topic to open it up a bit more in detail - so here we have the seperate discussion.
I will repeat what I already wrote in the other discussion.
Last year at the German Championships Trial I had a similar idea as Christian proposed in the other discussion: To award points based on how far riders progress on lines.
I had the feeling that in the final in particular the distinction between a line completely completed or a line not completed (even taking into account the pedal grabs) was insufficient, especially for very long lines. The idea was therefore to see if it would work to divide the lines into zones, as in bouldering, for example, and award points for completing a zone. I don't think this has been tested yet, but I would be really interested to see how such a concept would be appreciated by riders in practice.
The idea is probably only something for finals, at least that's where I'd most likely see it, and I'd like to see it tried out at a competition.
What do you think about such a system?
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I would suggest trying this out at some event to see how it could work and then this can be a discussion for the next rulebook committee round.
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The idea was not intended to be included in the rulebook right now, but only to discuss what others might think of the idea and whether there might be competitions that would like to try out such a system.
But the discussions here are rather less intense :D
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I am in to give it a try! maybe lines should be a little longer then? (some lines in finals are a bid short so might be hard for the zone section).
what about adding 3 zones into a line? and mark does clearly so riders know easy where the zone is. Ian if you need help you know you can text me :)