Ok, so I know everyone is rolling their eyes right now because I'm posting but please hear me out here.
I didn't post my thoughts on the dropping a race earlier because I really wanted to think this through first.
I started racing at 18, my dad wouldn't let me race so the weekend after I hit that age it was game on. Did a harescramble at the old Crash and Burn track outside Canal Fulton. Was hooked from that day on with racing. I've gone through every aspect of racing harescrambles and mx. CRA, district 12 and OMA. I have championships in c classes, b classes and every age group they had. I raced 2 and sometimes 3 times a week.
My point is I chased points hard core, I've won championships racing only what I needed to and now I race where it's fun. My son and I both have chased LL, he made it one year and I haven't. So my view on this topic comes from every aspect of racing for points.
Making this change mid season is wrong in my opinion. Please don't take this as an attack because it isn't. The OMA's sole purpose is to count points for the organized group of tracks and award the racers who are the most consistent through the year. More importantly, the Battle Series is for a state championship. More people, like me usually, make an effort to race all the races in that series to try and win the #1 state plate. Austin and myself have some of those at home, again to point out I'm speaking from experience in racing for that award.
I fully understand the weather gave you the short end of the stick and you lost your ass on this event. I truly feel bad for you because I know the effort and money you have dedicated to your track in order to make the event a gold standard this year. The problem with changing this after that race is you are punishing the racers that actually support your series no matter what the conditions and rewarding the racers who don't support you as much. Would you reward your daughter and give her a chance to win a championship if she quit a race because it was tough?
Saturday you had racers who didn't ask for a refund to do nothing other than draw spoons for points. Those racers gambled on a spoon draw for points....supporting you and the OMA while taking a chance at getting a first or an 8th. I personally know people that were there and not happy about it but in the lead for their class with 2nd place there also. He said he had no choice but to draw a spoon because he didn't want to lose points in the series to the 2nd place racer in his class. He lucked out and drew a 2 and his opponent drew a lower number. You just wasted his time and money allowing the 2nd place racer to drop that spoon. And worse yet, you rewarded the racers who didn't stay or come at all because of the weather by erasing that round for them.
I'm sure you made this choice because many racers are upset they got no points but that was their choice. They are quitters, not consistent and obviously don't support you or the OMA like the others do.
Please don't bow to those who are weak, reward the strong, reward those who support you and the OMA, change it back and do the right thing. You have abandoned the die hard racers that will abandon you in return. What are you teaching racers about your values, especially younger racers who learn about values from those they look uo to?
