>Three reasons for detesting optional slaloms:
> 1) I hate to look stupid for taking the wrong direction.
> a) I think the game should be about DRIVING not course
> following. If I wanted a course-following challenge
> I'd be into rallying.
I don't see how an optional slalom is a course-following issue,
unless you mean blowing straight past all the cones, and it's just
as easy to do that on a slalom with a single directional pylon.
> b) Taking course following to the extreme--which the
> rally people did with the development of TRAP
> rallies --they lose a lot of contestants who NEVER
> return. This is not the way to develop a program
> when people don't come back.
If I'm understanding, you're comparing the difficulty of an optional
slalom to that of a TRAP rally in terms of the retention effect on SCCA Solo
II competitors? That doesn't seem to me to be a reasonable comparison. You
might as well say that announcing times will drive off some competitors
because rock concerts are too loud.
KeS
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