Accept past amendments: Ungeared awards and Group/Club Freestyle

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Started 12 Mar 13:35

Comment 13 Mar 12:04

I hope everyone is receiving the notification emails. Does anyone have any comments or general opinions (good or bad) about this proposal?

Comment 13 Mar 12:13

I agree with this idea.

Comment 13 Mar 12:36

What is the reasoning to keep this departure from the IUF rule book? What is the benefit? That will help me formulate an opinion. Thanks!

Comment 13 Mar 13:29

For the Ungeared awards, the IUF Rulebook awards the top three males and top three females. The USA rule only awards the top male and top female (provided that there are enough geared riders). The reasoning here, from the previous USA rulebook committee, is that awards are expensive and we don't have so many riders that awarding so many people was deemed necessary. (Also, currently there are usually only enough geared riders that the males get this award.)

For Group/Club freestyle, the IUF Rulebook has Small Group and Large Group freestyle competitions. The USA rulebook adjusts these definitions to Group and Club to match our historical format for Freestyle competitions at NAUCC. It also requires clubs to be USA clubs, a definition the IUF rulebook naturally has no mention of.

Comment 13 Mar 13:36

That seems reasonable. Thanks for the explanation.

Comment 13 Mar 22:15

I believe both amendments are still valid clarifications, so agree with this proposal to carry them forward.

Comment 14 Mar 05:37

This proposal makes total sense and is needed for USA rule differentiation from the IUF Rulebook.

Comment 14 Mar 18:36

These proposals are very sensible. Agreed.

Comment 15 Mar 07:44

I concur with the amendments as they align with the prior rulebook discussions on this topic.

Do still find it a bit odd that we are treating geared and ungeared as somewhat separate classes but the rules for awarding ungeared are based upon geared. Seems like the number of ungeared riders being above a certain number would merit recognizing the fastest ungeared. Consider 5 geared and only 1 ungeared ... now consider 3 geared and 20 ungeared.