Originally Posted by
carleton
Think about it. If there were some other way to seed the tournament, then an entire 1/2 day to full day wouldn't be required to hold flying 200M qualfiying...an event that doesn't award a medal (the flying 200M TT or flying lap TT would be a separate event...that awards a medal
). I don't know what the alternative would be. Maybe random 1st round seedings with more reps to avoid 1 vs 2 randomly meeting early on and knocking each other out? Round Robin then Brackets for semis and finals? 3-ups early on?
Increasing the number of 2-up rides to either add reps or create a round robin would add more time than you save by eliminating the 200s. With 200s, each rider goes just once for three laps, and if things are organized the next rider is getting on the track as the previous rider goes past the back stretch on the final lap. Adding a round or doing round robin would add at least a number of races equal to half the number of riders (the bare minimum if you add a single round), with time to get the riders on the track, give instructions, start them, and get them off the track to set up for the next race.
The flip side is that it would be more spectator friendly and would give all the riders more head-to-head races.
Maybe randomly seed 4-ups and advance the top two and send the bottom 2 to the reps?