Mr. Obvious wrote:
rojo wrote:That's not controversial. Get rid of the DQ stuff as it riles people up and makes them worry about when it will apply in other cases.
It is controversial. In fact, it is worse than that. It is just stupid.
Who would decide when a team worked hard enough to count? What if just a couple runners tempo'ed and the rest ran hard? What if the couple who tempo'ed were coming back from injury?
The at-large system may not be the best system possible, but at the very least it has clear rules and procedures, so that people who understand it well enough (not me, I understand it basically, but not all the ins and outs) can replicate the results. Follow the rules, this is the result...
Yes, this is a great response. You can't DQ a team because they didn't try hard or whatever. That would make no sense.