Instead of having the 3 team members from a team on the same server, we propose to have them distributed on different servers. I.e. each team send 1 skipper to the blue server, 1 to the green server and 1 to the red server.
The benefits of this system are at least these points:
- Each team will have the same difficulty level of the opponents in the races. With the previous system, some race nights gave harder groups to some teams and easier to others. The reason for this is the different levels of the teams, but also that some teams have no-shows for some regattas, which really makes an effect on the result.
- Someone always complain about team tactics and want MLS to be based on fleet racing skills only, but still have it as a team competition. With only 1 from each team on each server, team racing tactics are eliminated.
- With the current system, the number of teams participating are limited to 9, 12, 15 etc. With mixed groups, any reasonable number would work.
- We are getting an interesting "surprise moment" before every race: Which skipper does the teams send to the different servers?
What does the other teams think?
Harald