Bob, we can't go back to the .5 points for a relay win. There are clubs, for good reasons and bad, that shoot 5-man relays. The whole .05 points per people beat has good reason.
Far as that goes, I have no problems extending it to 20-man relays. Yes, you can pick up .95 points, but you have to beat 18 or 19 other people to do it.
I suppose you could hire a bunch of ringers to shoot with you, in a quest for sooty points. Curly, Moe, Abbot and Costello, etc. find 18 of them, then you & your buddy shoot for score & group wins. Aside from that, I can't see the problem.
But apparently it bothers the people who yearn after SOTY points, just the chance that a "fellow competitor" wins one of those big relays gives them gas. And apparently some clubs don't want to follow precedent, only hard, written rules.
That brings up an interesting point. I believe private ranges are private land. Now I guess some cub could require competitors to shoot in the buff. No rule against it, & I believe "decency" is only required by law in public?
Now I would be against that. There are just too many really ugly, fat old men shooting 1K BR. It would affect my concentration because my lunch would be at risk.
I think we may need to come up with a whole list of agenda items for next year.
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BTW, did anyone notice that to win "group" in a relay, you have to beat everybody else. But to win "score," that number is one less -- you don't have to have a better score than the guy who won group. Just another reason to shoot for score...
Far as that goes, I have no problems extending it to 20-man relays. Yes, you can pick up .95 points, but you have to beat 18 or 19 other people to do it.
I suppose you could hire a bunch of ringers to shoot with you, in a quest for sooty points. Curly, Moe, Abbot and Costello, etc. find 18 of them, then you & your buddy shoot for score & group wins. Aside from that, I can't see the problem.
But apparently it bothers the people who yearn after SOTY points, just the chance that a "fellow competitor" wins one of those big relays gives them gas. And apparently some clubs don't want to follow precedent, only hard, written rules.
That brings up an interesting point. I believe private ranges are private land. Now I guess some cub could require competitors to shoot in the buff. No rule against it, & I believe "decency" is only required by law in public?
Now I would be against that. There are just too many really ugly, fat old men shooting 1K BR. It would affect my concentration because my lunch would be at risk.
I think we may need to come up with a whole list of agenda items for next year.
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BTW, did anyone notice that to win "group" in a relay, you have to beat everybody else. But to win "score," that number is one less -- you don't have to have a better score than the guy who won group. Just another reason to shoot for score...