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A one second deficit moves me from 2nd place last year to 10th. The jacket winner would be 9th.
Stop pretending that this is fine and totally ok. It's 100% not.
There's at least 10 people last year who were chasing a jacket, and another 15-20 who were chasing a trophy. Stop pretending that a sudden 1 second deficit doesn't change things for us; we are competitive people, competition is why we are here. You have to be totally lacking in empathy to believe this, or you're being intentionally disingenuous.
Can you tell me there are 30 people who will bring a gen 2 twin to nats in STX next year? Because if not, you're harming more people than you're helping. That's just not defensible, especially when the constraint that is preventing us from actually making everyone happy - create a new class - is entirely an arbitrary and artificial one.
So here's my question to gen 2 folks: are you going to fight alongside me so that everyone gets what they want? Or are you going to try and turn this into a zero sum game with a winner and a loser?
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