Seriously is anyone still unclear on this? I'm happy to have a respectful q&a session to walk anyone through it. Anyone except @Flamazide and @the factor who blew too many chances to stop, look past their preconceived notions and LISTEN to reason before declaring with (undeservedly!) smug assurance that not only I but many pro judges have "got it wrong". This can very discussed civilly by anyone else, for as long as this is sticky. Once it has been explained to everyone's satisfaction and this gets unstuck, we are going to have a 1-strike policy going forward. Anybody willfully spouting misinformation or misinterpretations of the scoring rules will be gently reminded what they actually say, ONCE...and further infractions will result in an immediate & permanent ban. Cool? :
Wow big drama show. People getting banned left and right. Who would have thought discussion on the 10 point must system would bring out so much passion!
Its mind boggling to me that people can get that worked up over something so innocuous, that they're willing to briskly charge headfirst into airplane propeller over it. I've barely paid any attention to this thread whatsoever. I assumed it would be pretty cut and dried. Oh well, I guess not.
For what its worth, I HATE the 10 point must system. As I'm sure you've noticed. But its not hard to understand in the least. And pointless to argue over.
Had never given this much thought to be honest. I've scored plenty of fights unwittingly as 9-9 and the like, which I think probably works better. Very easy to understand though, not sure how those other two didn't get it. I would say the clue is the word MUST
It throws me when seemingly normal & cool people finally peel off that veneer and expose their inner gibbering maniac. Like having your aunt you've known your whole life suddenly break into anti-vaccine or flat-earth rants at Thanksgiving. Like "okay, bye forever Mildred..." @Flamazide never struck me as being quite that much of a bag of hammers. And then for him to act high & mighty about it like this was some kind of debatable topic on which I was being unreasonable!
"Ahh you can't add points!" "I never said you can add points" "But you can't have ten points if you got knocked down!" "You can if the point was never deducted in the first place..which it doesn't by mandate of the rules unconditionally *have* to be, unless there's a foul..." "AHHH YOU CAN'T ADD POINTS!!!" Round & round in circles with these dunderheads. This is just like arguing with people convinced that vaccines cause autism even after you point out that all such beliefs stem from a debunked article by a disgraced researcher.
I must say their inability to grasp the information along with your comments had me FKN dying of laughter!!!!!!