Funny you should mention that, Paul and I were talking about this very thing over the weekend! I'd like to do something for sure...but not sure on the best format for it.
Thoughts were...we all race each other week in week out, and pretty much know how we all perform relative to each other...Craig will win if he's racing, and Rob will win if he's racing...or maybe Dave Belston will dominate us all after his storming nationals results this year! But you get the point, we can all pretty much guess the outcome!
Maybe that's actually fine, and we'll just enjoy seeing it happen, and the middle order will challenge for their rightful spot all the same?
But I was just a bit worried it could leave it all a bit of a forgon conclusion without real chance of trophies for most people...so I wanted to try and come up with some sort of format that could mix that up somehow.
How about doubles?
I play badminton in work...and much the same as club racing, there is one person who on his own will wipe the floor with any of us...and we all know roughly who's better than who after that. But put into decent pairings for doubles....it's really close!
So how about this...it's just an idea and open to comment....
We get entries in, and the commitee roughly rank the drivers based on what we know about them. Split the list into 2 halves, randomly draw names from the 2 lists putting one top half driver with one bottom half driver, giving us doubles teams.
Race as normal, qualifiers and finals, scoring like normal then combining the scores of the team members to give the final championship table position.
Depending how seriously it gets taken this would give the bottom half/newer drivers a top half driver to learn a bit from, and give the better guys some variety to their otherwise forgon conclusion outcomes!
We could actually run it alongside an individual championship as well, but just give the main prizes to the team event?
Any good or just rubbish? Any other thoughts from anyone with that in mind? Or would you just prefer to see the individual event run as normal?
Haven't talked to Pete or anyone else about it yet, so there are no definate plans for a championship at this point, but def good to gauge interest and try something a bit new for the club if it's what you all want
