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Originally Posted by MikeK
Yeah, I'm really sorry about that 
On a related note, the nooblar points have been converted (Alex and Cody). and sent to Dean. You guys in ESP need to watch out, Cody has won 4 of the 5 events he has showed up to! |
I foresee a problem w/ this... not specifically regarding Cody, but with the conversion of novice points in general. None of the class participants were aware that they might have been competing w/ some of the Novices, which means none of them would have paid attention to the legality of the cars they raced against. Hell, Novices aren't even required to class their cars, meaning a Novice could be running a Vette then show up in a DS WRX to finish the season... it's not like Timing & Scoring has any official record of the cars that were entered because registration doesn't police the entries outside of getting a name from the participant.
I see a problem in the future where someone checks the results after a Novice converts to a class, sees that they're suddenly in 2nd instead of 1st, and calls "unfair!" And, I've got to agree with them.
Again, I'm not talking about Cody and ESP in particular, and since the rule is in the sups for this season, I support the reclassing for this season, but I think things should probably be changed for next year. Originally I didn't think there'd ever be an issue, because it's rare that Novices would be competative in a class right out of the box, but this season's Novices have proven otherwise.
In general, the conversion of points isn't fair because there are people running in class against unknown competition. If I was running in a class w/ slow competitors, I wouldn't necessarily push myself or my car as hard if I knew there was a Novice running faster than me in my class. Suddenly my easy 1st place becomes a 2nd... simply because I was lightfooting it to save the car since it appeared that I had the event wrapped up.
In addition, a Novice could run 8 events, then choose at the halfway point of the season to switch to an uncontested class just to win a championship because they know no one else can qualify for a trophy in it.
Anyway, I'm rambling a bit...