Rich Parker
Babbling Farker
- Joined
- Jun 20, 2009
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI
This is an interesting idea what do you think?
New Business
Mike Peters: I make the following motion: KCBS change TOY bonus points from a maximum 50 points for contests with 50 plus teams to a maximum of 35 points for contests with 35 and more teams.
This year, the average team count as of 12/1/14 was 38.79 while taking out the contests under 25 teams, International contests and the AR Open. Of the 427 contests, 85 of these had 50 or more teams (19%). Teams chasing points for TOY will often skip local contests that might not get 50 teams for maximum point benefit and travel. Teams that would not normally chase points might possibly cook additional contests because they would have an equitable chance to finish in the top 25 in TOY placings. Both of these should help contests from canceling due to a lack of teams.
This suggestion was brought to me by a cook team. After asking a number of other cooks, the consensus was that this was a great idea to help local contests, help some mid level teams cook more to take advantage of TOY monies while also sending a message to struggling organizers that the BOD is instituting changes that benefit not only organizers but their local teams as well.
In reviewing the current TOY overall status, there are only 6 teams of the top 25 that have placed in the top 25 in each of the 4 meat categories and overall. 8 teams have only one or no top 25 category calls. This change should also reward the consistency of a cook team in the overall TOY standings and bring the TOY numbers closer at the end of the year.
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