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Hmmmm, seems like we had this discussion a little while back in another thread 
? (Kind of like "deja-vu all over again"). I don't remember what the mods decided, but I think the status quo sort of remained. Dave Bovey and some others checked in and it was generally agreed (or seemed to be?) that a PUMMEL-wide reweigh-in would be a logistical nightmare, and might mean the end of PUMMEL as a going concern due to the chaos that would ensue.
Last month there were 54 participants (a quick count) in PUMMEL (And not everyone showed up for their matches). I believe if we had a reweigh-in with even 3/4 of that number (75% of 54 is 40.5) it would be a total mess. I went over to take a look at the most recent weigh-ins and there is, on average, 22 votes for each weigh-in. That's not even half the number of votes most PUMMEL ranked matches get (my match with g0b1in last month got 45 votes). If there are suddenly 40-45 reweigh-ins in that area, I can easily see some people being weighed in with less than 10-15 votes, which is bound to make some people extremely unhappy (especially if they end up in a radically different class than they had been previously). I think unhappy participants will equal a lot of people dropping out, since this thing is supposed to have some element of fun to it.
And that doesn't even address how you rank the classes once the reweigh-in is completed. With the intial seedings (where the weight classes didn't exist BTW) my understanding is that it was based upon votes recieved, and you were placed on a ranking-ladder from there based on the # of votes you got. Would you use win-loss records, or a random class seeding (and imagine going from top dog in your class to bottom of the list in the same class randomly)? And what happens with the inevitable competitor who was in a higher/lower class and now finds themselves in a division they never competed in before, where do you place them, at the top, or bottom? And what about people returning to PUMMEL, do they all have to reweigh-in, or do they get a pass and go with the initial weigh-in?
There have been several cases of competitors re-weighing in, and at least one I can remember where things didn't turn out as he hoped so he took his ball and went home (quit/retired from PUMMEL). I can see that sort of thing happening en-masse in a PUMMEL-wide reweigh-in.
Just one guy's opinion, but I think that keeping the existing structure is much easier than throwing everything out and starting over. One of those "better the devil we know than the one we don't" sort of things?
? (Kind of like "deja-vu all over again"). I don't remember what the mods decided, but I think the status quo sort of remained. Dave Bovey and some others checked in and it was generally agreed (or seemed to be?) that a PUMMEL-wide reweigh-in would be a logistical nightmare, and might mean the end of PUMMEL as a going concern due to the chaos that would ensue.Last month there were 54 participants (a quick count) in PUMMEL (And not everyone showed up for their matches). I believe if we had a reweigh-in with even 3/4 of that number (75% of 54 is 40.5) it would be a total mess. I went over to take a look at the most recent weigh-ins and there is, on average, 22 votes for each weigh-in. That's not even half the number of votes most PUMMEL ranked matches get (my match with g0b1in last month got 45 votes). If there are suddenly 40-45 reweigh-ins in that area, I can easily see some people being weighed in with less than 10-15 votes, which is bound to make some people extremely unhappy (especially if they end up in a radically different class than they had been previously). I think unhappy participants will equal a lot of people dropping out, since this thing is supposed to have some element of fun to it.
And that doesn't even address how you rank the classes once the reweigh-in is completed. With the intial seedings (where the weight classes didn't exist BTW) my understanding is that it was based upon votes recieved, and you were placed on a ranking-ladder from there based on the # of votes you got. Would you use win-loss records, or a random class seeding (and imagine going from top dog in your class to bottom of the list in the same class randomly)? And what happens with the inevitable competitor who was in a higher/lower class and now finds themselves in a division they never competed in before, where do you place them, at the top, or bottom? And what about people returning to PUMMEL, do they all have to reweigh-in, or do they get a pass and go with the initial weigh-in?
There have been several cases of competitors re-weighing in, and at least one I can remember where things didn't turn out as he hoped so he took his ball and went home (quit/retired from PUMMEL). I can see that sort of thing happening en-masse in a PUMMEL-wide reweigh-in.
Just one guy's opinion, but I think that keeping the existing structure is much easier than throwing everything out and starting over. One of those "better the devil we know than the one we don't" sort of things?
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