I am quite new to this and have stayed out of the thread but having seen the "result" I had to comment.
Picture the scene - its a lovely evening, the sun is up and the Wife is pestering you to drag the BBQ out of the shed. Having said that its Friday night and that means race night at Glos .... on hang on, it's only practice for my class tonight so why bother. Lets stay at home and earn some browny points for putting the family before the club.
It does seem short sighted in my opinion to make it so that the incentive to turn up each week is deminished. A far more sensible approach would have been to reduce the amount of point scoring weeks so that if people did have a poor week when setting up the car it would not impact their standing. Having an average is also a good idea as long a minimum number of rounds have been reached.
The club will surely lose revenue if the reason to turn up each week for those of us who do not have the money to run more than one class. If people are so keen to run set ups on the live track is not possible to arrange a seperate practice night during the week? I am sure this might be possible if the venue is not already booked up and people are willing to stump up to cover the cost.
With the Gloucester Quays event on the horizon we have the potential for even more people joining so what is next, a once a month competitive week per class with a deli style ticket system!
Not everyone goes on Oople and whilst I understand that voting slips were available at the club it was a bit covert and as such not everyone will have been aware. The people who are engaged will have voted but as many of them are normally the ones who are proposing the idea with a voting pool so low it may have distorted the vote.
Shame to have gone down this route especially as so many people have stating that it was not broken in the first place.
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