Proposal 15: Tricks per zone [ Revision 2 ]
Committee: Flat & StreetSubmitted on 2015-01-05
Status: Passed on April 06, 2015
Background
This is about changing the rules from offering a specific time for each zone during the street competition to offer a specific amount of goes.
Proposal
Old rules:
6.29 Preliminaries
Riders will be put into groups of three or four (preferably 4, but in some cases, there may need to be up to 3 groups of 3 depending on the number of competitors). Each group will be given a starting time, and they will proceed to their starting Zone. They will be given 5 minutes in each zone to perform as many tricks as possible. The riders are assigned an order and they may only attempt a trick when it is their turn. The order should be presented in writing as well as announced before the competition. Riders may choose to skip their turn in the event of an injury or any other reason. The group will then move on to the next zone (so it will take each group 25 minutes to finish, with 5 minutes after for discussion, and it will take 10n+20 minutes to finish prelims, where n is the number of groups).
6.30 Finals
The top 5 or 6 riders will be chosen to participate in the finals, which should be a few hours later, or the next day. Finals should preferably not be before noon, because we want a lot of spectators, and we want to riders to have a chance to warm up and be ready to be at their best. In the finals, the same 3 zones will be used, and all riders will go at the same time for 12 to 15 minutes (open for discussion) in each zone. The riders are assigned an order and they may only attempt a trick when it is their turn. The order should be presented in writing as well as announced before the competition. Riders may choose to skip their turn in the event of an injury or any other reason. There will be 5 judges in the finals, and these can be made up from some of the judges of prelims, or even riders that may not have performed their best in prelims, and did not make it into the finals
New Rules
6.29 Preliminaries
Riders will be put into groups of three or four (preferably 4, but in some cases, there may need to be up to 3 groups of 3 depending on the number of competitors). Each group will be given a starting time, and they will proceed to their starting Zone. They will be given 6 goes per rider in each zone to perform as many tricks as possible (depending on the possible time window the host can decide to reduce or expand the number of allowed goes while 4 should be the minimum). The riders are assigned an order and they may only attempt a trick when it is their turn. The order should be presented in writing as well as announced before the competition. Riders may choose to skip their turn in the event of an injury or any other reason. The group will then move on to the next zone (so it will take each group 25 minutes to finish, with 5 minutes after for discussion, and it will take 10n+20 minutes to finish prelims, where n is the number of groups).
6.30 Finals
The top 5 or 6 riders will be chosen to participate in the finals, which should be a few hours later, or the next day. Finals should preferably not be before noon, because we want a lot of spectators, and we want to riders to have a chance to warm up and be ready to be at their best. In the finals, the same 3 zones will be used, and all riders will go at the same time for 12 to 15 minutes in each zone (depending on the possible time window the host can decide to reduce the time while 10 minutes should be the minimum). The riders are assigned an order and they may only attempt a trick when it is their turn. The order should be presented in writing as well as announced before the competition. Riders may choose to skip their turn in the event of an injury or any other reason. There will be 5 judges in the finals, and these can be made up from some of the judges of prelims, or even riders that may not have performed their best in prelims, and did not make it into the finals
Body
In my opinion advantages of giving a time is that the whole the competition is more on time. Like you can say qualification starts at time X and finals gonna be at time X. Another one is that all 3 groups gonna end their round at the same time, changing zones may be a bit faster.
On the other side we have tricks per zone. For example let's say every rider can do 5 tricks/lines (depending on time & size of zone). Riders would have no stress during the competition and could already think of all their tricks before the competitions starts. All the riders would have the same amount of tricks/lines in each section that would make it easier for the judges to compare all riders. I personally think it is unfair if one rider can do more tricks in a section that the other one and if we check the rulebook "The ranking should be influenced by the number of tricks done, and the difficulty of the tricks", it just doesn't fit together if rider1 does 7 tricks and rider2 does 5 tricks because he was in a slower group.
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Discussion
View DiscussionChange Log:
- Revision 2 changed by Olaf Schlote (23 Mar 18:14)
Just follow Emils arguments based on our live test.
- Revision 1 changed by Olaf Schlote (05 Jan 14:24)
Votes on this proposal:
10 out of 16 voting members have voted.
Agree: 10, Disagree: 0, Abstain: 0.