Points System for AX Championship

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The point system as it currently stands:

Each driver will be awarded 5 points for participating in a race and 5 points for every RTR driver they finish higher than.  For example, for 6 RTR drivers:

1st - 30 points

2nd - 25 points

3rd - 20 points

4th - 15 points

5th - 10 points

6th - 5 points

Or if there are 20 participants:

1st:  100 points

2nd:  95 points

3rd:  90 points

etc.....

 

 

 

This system obviously rewards those drivers for finishing higher than the most amount of other participants.  However, it has been brought up as a concern that this will actually act as a detterant for drivers to participate when there is the possibility of light participation...   Descouraging participants from making the trek when the weather might be a bit rough. 

SO here is my proposal-  why not make the minimum award for a winner 50 points, and 5 points less for each place after that.   Therefore encouraging participation in crummy weather.    Essentially, an event that was attended by only 6 drivers would look like this:

1st - 50 points

2nd - 45 points

3rd - 40 points

4th - 35 points

5th - 30 points

6th - 25 points

 

Two questions

1.  What do you guys think?

2.  Should we implement this retroactively for Race number 1 where only 5 drivers showed up?