Is Moving Up In Rank Fast A Bad Thing

[mike cyrwus]

fixed it for you.

And also I find that I shoot better when I'm on the internet on kicking someones ass.

 

[shootingbuff]

It'll never be perfect, I actually wonder why we need a system at all since the major 3 gun matches get along fine without one. But I still find a shooters classification a decent idea of what he/she is capable of. Ceasing to care how you shoot them and just doing it like you're trying to win a match is the best way to nail really good runs. Letting your brain just do it and getting out of the way is the key here anyway.

I think classifiers a necessary to keep more folks shooting. I don't think only practicing classifiers will get you to the next higher level of shooting. By that I mean in competition with good shooters who have a solid base that practice their weaknesses as demonstrated or everything they can work in.

 

[jtischauser]

I think Jake Burki proved a point last night with his U classification and class win in Single Stack.

 

[shootingbuff]

Good point and congrats to Sir Burki.

 

[Deathtrap]

Thanks. Any improvement I have made is due to the talented shooters I have the privilege of shooting with every time I pick up a gun. My opinion on classification is do whatever you want. If you stick with it long enough it will fix it's self one way or the other

 

[Bunchies95]

For me personally, I visualize my classification run about 10% higher than what my current average is. This trick has kept me steadily moving up in the system. If you attend major matches with the intent of winning a prize, being classified higher than what your match performance will hurt you. For local matches, it really doesn't seem to be necessary; just a good way to track progress relative to other shooters.

Is the system perfect? No but I do not see a good way to improve it. Can it be gamed? Heck yes! You can sandbag and not give other shooters a fair shot at the prize table. Or it can be grandbagged, in which case you hurt yourself.

I do not see a better method to prevent sandbagging than what is currently available. To prevent grandbagging, the rules can be written to only allow one reshoot for specific reasons, not up to the MD's discrestion

 

[No.343]

I didn't think that the classifier system was very good until I started shooting out of town matches. At those matches I found that my percentage of the match winner was pretty much in line with my classification. However, I believe that I have always given every stage the effort it needed to place well for the match, not a single stage. What I mean by that is there are some stages that can't help you win, but they can sure loose the match for you. Those are often standards or classifiers. I shot those stages more conservatively. The high HF stages I tried to shoot more aggresively. Don't worry about stages and try to win the match.