Joe Cipale

Chris Alling wrote:

> I thought about this a great deal last night. I know sad.

Chris, you have way, way... WAAAAAAAY too much time on your hands...

>But we could set =
> up all TT racing as a bell curve. All times are put into a spread sheet in =
> order of finish from top to bottom. The organizer then takes the middle 70%=
> and calls them cat 3 for the purposes of that individual race and gives me=
> dals to the top three. Then pulls the next ten percent below and above and =
> calls them CAT 4 and CAT 2 respectively and gives out medals to them. The r=
> emaining top 5% are the CAT 1 and they get their medals and the bottom 5% a=
> re the CAT 5 for the day and they get their medals. This system will take c=
> are of all of those sandbagging Triatheletes, timetrial specialists and rac=
> ers who spend all of their money on special equipment to go fast. They will=
> not be able to sandbag their way to a CAT 4 state championship.=20
> =20
> In this system you can wait for days to find out what category you are and =
> if you finished in the top ten.

A good Excel hacker can put something together in less than an hour so it is doable...

> It adds to the anticipations and overall ex=
> citement. It is also conceivable that a CAT 1 could have a really shitty ti=
> me trial and win the CAT 5 race that day and go home feeling good about him=
> self because he is the CAT 5 champion.
> =20
> Although I still think that we should give Joe his own catagory and call it=
> JoeBRA.

And I will proudly wear my JoeBRA Champion jersey too all JoeBRA events and be envied by the rest of you slackers becuase you are not only unable, but inelegible to win a JoeBRA Champ jersey!

:)~