And so it begins. From the 'banned board':
"Well I did the racing once before, with the help of a great friend. And I got second."
Did anyone else besides us do the racing themselves...without outside help...and win?!
I've heard from a few other people who had other friends do their races for them...and at least get the rare pins.
Here's another line:
"Hopefully the players like me who have gotten the top three will give others a chance."
What's that supposed to mean? That the Flames should 'bow out' and give others a chance? Seems like in the real world, people in competitive events KEEP doing the events to retain their place. Defend their titles. Not only that, if we 'bow out'...doesn't that open the door to giving those people who have others race FOR them a chance to win? Doesn't sound fair at all to me to let dishonest people win. And what if we come in second or third place? The prizes will be different. Prizes we didn't get the first time. Not only that, the first-place trophy and pin + 3 new pins will be things we haven't won yet.
Sigh. This is so blech. We have already discussed this as a family last night. Looks like we'll be discussing our options/approach throughout the week to decide what to do. We don't want to allow the dishonest people to win...but there's no way to tell who is or isn't being dishonest...that is, unless they admit it.
Blech.
ADDITIONAL THOUGHT: for the record, we got a great deal of IM's last time there were races from people asking what they could do to get a faster time. We always responded, and always gave a GREAT DEAL more information than we probably should have on how people could decrease their times. Some of these people we had only ever had contact with ONCE! Then other people were asking what our best times were. Obviously, we told them...and they then knew what time THEY had to beat (since VFK wasn't updating the times).
I'm not sure we'll be answering IM's this time around. Seems like too much dishonesty going on with racing. If people don't want to play by the rules, then we will not be a part of it. We never asked ONE PERSON for racing tips for the last race. The tip to winning: be the racer with the lowest time.
There's also many ethical things we need to take into consideration. Like last time, we will not run clones to load the winners list (as opposed to others we know who did). We are allowed to run BOTH 'mod' AND 'stock' categories. I think we will NOT do that. Doesn't sound ethical to me. However, we know that others will do it if we don't. This is too complicated.
More rants later, I'm sure. LOL.