<VV> awards, Concours, and more...

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Seems most prefer the "gold, silver, bronze" award system. No surprise
to me there. As I said, IMHO, I feel that it's a "feel good" system, so
who wouldn't like it?

Seth brings up autocrossing (no surprise there, either). If everyone
likes the "gold, silver, bronze" award system so much, how about using
it there? Cars that get a time of X or less get a gold, a time of
between X and Y a silver, etc. I'm sure that would please a whole heck
of a lot of people.

Then we could extend it to the other events, even the Cole award. Anyone
getting Z number of points or greater gets a gold Cole award, etc. Why,
we might even end up with a half dozen happy gold Cole award winners!

Get real folks! In this world there are winners and there are losers.
Like in the show "The Apprentice" where one team wins and the other
loses. Often the losing team does well, but the winning team does even
better. Still, somebody on the losing team gets fired. That's life.
That's competition.

As for the concours award system, I can understand and appreciate what
everyone is saying. But I still feel that it is not as good as a "first,
second, third" system. Heck, I don't like losing in a concours judging
event any more than anyone else. But it's just the way I see it, and
everyone is free to disagree. 'Nuf said.

-Mark

Bruce Schug wrote:
> 
> I used to work with a guy who would always play "devil's advocate" with
> an idea, so here goes...
> 
> Some of you have stated that you feel there's a big difference between
> having the second-highest score in a concours class when there are many
> fine cars to compete against vs, when there are, for example, only
> three average cars. Agreed. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SAME SITUATION IN OTHER
> EVENTS!!!! This same argument applies to ANY event! (THIS IS THE
> BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH THE WAY THE COLE AWARD IS HANDLED!!! A guy has a
> much easier time winning with an odd ball car that has little
> competition.)
> 
> Example: It has been pointed out that there should be a fine turnout of
> fast Street Modified cars in the autocross. A guy could finish with the
> third best time and still have an outstanding performance!!! How about
> the rallye? What if a guy scores ONE POINT an unbelievable score and
> finished SECOND to a guy with an astounding PERFECT SCORE OF ZERO!!!!
> Folks, IT'S ALL RELATIVE!!! The difference is no one knows what the
> "perfect run" is for a SM car in the autocross. No one knows what the
> highest possible mileage is for a certain type car in the economy run,
> but we DO KNOW what the perfect score for ANY car in the concours is!
> (We also know the perfect score in the rallye which is zero).
> 
> So... how do you want to award participants? If you finish within a
> second of the winning car in the autocross, should you get a gold
> award? If you finish within three mpg of the winning economy run car
> should you get a gold award? If you finish within 50 points of the
> winning rallye car should you get a gold award?
> 
> 
> Bruce W, Schug