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And silly, it was. Just 47 starters, 31 finishers.

 

And apparently, we're going with 1st in this race -> 1st starter in slalom, 2nd -> 2nd and so on and on...? So, pretty much no point watching a lot of second race. No more looking forward to various straddling while waiting for the last racers...

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Kirkpatrick said:

And silly, it was. Just 47 starters, 31 finishers.

 

And apparently, we're going with 1st in this race -> 1st starter in slalom, 2nd -> 2nd and so on and on...? So, pretty much no point watching a lot of second race. No more looking forward to various straddling while waiting for the last racers...

 

 

 

They changed it because apparently peoples started bashing that the Alpine Combined favored a lot slalom specialists ...now it have to favore the downhill specialists, but it looks peoples will not be happy again ..

 

I explained it right in the first page of this thread

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Might get better in some future races, but today for instance, second race is useless after first three starters. Men's race was over when Pinturault started 9th I believe.

 

So far, very much prefer previous order. Combination will never be fair.

 

 

And as I said, always was looking forward by just how much speed masters will lose in slalom races.

 

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14 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

They changed it because apparently peoples started bashing that the Alpine Combined favored a lot slalom specialists ...now it have to favore the downhill specialists, but it looks peoples will not be happy again ..

 

I explained it right in the first page of this thread

 

Alpine Combined is not a race that should be in the schedule anymore...it doesn't make sense under a strict technical point of view, it's not more spectacular then any individual race, it favors the slalom specialists no matter what starting order is used...

 

however, the real "unfair" aspect of the world cup race is only the unbalanced schedule...until they don't change the number of technical and speed races, it's never going to be fair...

 

the question is only this one...they have to schedule the same number for each of the 4 true disciplines (and get rid of all the sh*t like combined races, parallel "things" -unless they develop the PSL as a real standalone discipline with fair rules for all the competitors and a fair race format). point.

 

p.s. in any case, it's fun to watch how the Austrian and Swiss federations build the world cup schedule according to their interests...when Tomba was dominant, they basically made it impossible for him (and all the technical skiers) to win the overall world cup (he had to find a lucky season to get just 1 in his entire career)...

then, when Hirscher became the lone star of Austrian skiing, they changed the distribution of the events letting all the speed specialists without a chance...

what's gonna happen next? :whistle:

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