Shooting 2021 Discussion Thread

[Dunadan 1,103]

Wtf I hadn't read that, what kind of drugs do they use at the ISSF 

[Vic Liu 1,682]

I read them, horrible. I don't know why every cycle with a new format. Who the hell will benefit from it?

[dcro 10,210]

1 hour ago, phelps said:

Stop! I just can read further than that...

 

Just another discipline I won't follow anymore...

I wonder how were you able to follow the previous shooting formats then.

 

One-by-one eliminations in shooting was pretty much an equivalent of a 100 m race where one athlete gets eliminated every 10 m, or a biathlon race where an athlete gets eliminated at every checkpoint.

 

Tldr: the previous format was already nonsense masquerading under the pretense of "entertainment".

[Fly_like_a_don 1,090]

The old format was the best possible format for shooting I felt. 

 

The medal winners of new format may not be the best shooters. 

 

Major loopholes :

 

1. A consistent shooter who may shoot with average say 10.2 and may have made a 2 or 3 point advantage after a certain number of shots in old format  can still get eliminated easily since even if he has say 5 OR 6 points advantage in new format  and shoots few shots of   10.0 - 10.2 can score just 1 point if all others shoot more even if it's 0.1 OR 0.2 above. 

 

2.50m3P returns to standing finals making prone and kneeling  specialist just opportunity to qualify well .

 

3. Unlike previous format where  shooters who are consistent in finals win and every shot counts here it doesn't . You can hit 6.2,4.0,7.3, 8.1 and even miss but still win if you shoot other shots well  

 

4. Also it's possible that 1 semifinal will have the best shooters while the other just ordinary ones (since shooting in qualification and finals can be totally different) , yet only 2 of them may qualify for finals .

[Dunadan 1,103]

The basic principle of considering the sum of scores over x shots remained the same in those events, even with the elimination format. Now, all of a sudden, a series of  10.7-miss-10.7-miss-10.7 is considered better than one of 10.5-10.7-10.5-10.7-10.5. Consistency is thrown out of the window in finals, there is literally no difference between scoring 0.1 less than your opponent and missing the target.

[intoronto 5,641]

1 hour ago, Dunadan said:

Wtf I hadn't read that, what kind of drugs do they use at the ISSF 

The ones the urban crew at the IOC is using.

[MHSN 3,619]

it's impossible to remember all these rules for all these events when you watch them later. they are very different event by event

 

and how the hell we have 2 bronze medals in mixed team events ? what's the logic behind that ? is there any logic for anything at all ?