I promise I’ll let you off the hook this time and not give you a 75 paragraph explanation as to why you’re wrong. Let’s cut to the chase, shall we? YOU’RE WRONG BECAUSE I SAY SO!
Any system will have small nooks and crannies you can exploit somehow. There are stories like that from the lower cats in US racing for example. It’s just that in a results based system you can’t keep doing it 100% of the time indefinitely. You need to lose a bit to get the chance again to win a bit. I think that’s better than having monopoly on the podium for months or even years on end.
I would have loved to show you and others in here how even the test model can be exploited, like the old system. Thing is I think I have nailed it.
I wouldn’t have been able to though. I would have had to be at least deep into the bottom of cat C fitness-wise. I’m just top cat D right now, not enough juice. But I wouldn’t have had the chance in either case.
Interesting observation:
I was originally assigned to D in the test. Then I suddenly got bumped to C before the first available test race Monday evening. So I signed up as C. Then after my participation in that race, a flat out but still D-like performance, I was again allowed to join cat D for the next race same time the day after. But a few hours before race start I got bumped to C again.
I’m not saying I get any paranoid ideas about this. Not at all. I would never…
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