While looking for an old post I ran across two fictionalized sagas from four years ago. That got me thinking, life is stranger than fiction. I have witnessed the following:
In the main match at the Fastest Gun Alive, I saw KK Kid shoot the winning shot of a match setting a new ladies world record. Because it was a world record time she was given three shots to back it up in three attempts. Since she could not back it up, the shot was by rule declared an anticipation and therefore the match was still tied 2-2. Then in the next shot she wins the match with a shot that was fast enough to back up the world record. Sorry was the response to KK Kid, no world record for you, even though you shot one and did back it up in the match. Rules are rules.
I saw Quick Cal set a new world record in a title match which he conceded was an anticipation even though any grade school math student would calculate that he started his draw at least 50 to 75 milliseconds after the light came on. I don't buy for a second that he was just following the cowboy way in conceding anticipation but believe it was not wise to test out the new rules he had just put in place to protect the integrity of the world record.
I saw a Territorial champion win the event even though the champion did not compete in 4 of the last 5 rounds of the event. The champion entered the last three with 3 x s and the other two had 2 x s and 1 x respectively. The champion won four bye shoot offs in a row and therefore did not have to compete in 4 of the last 5 rounds of the event.
I have seen many title events won by a shooter that had reached the elimination factor. 4 x is 4 x except when it isn't. We don't believe in resurrections unless we need to fill a spot. I can remember this happening frequently, most recently Quick Cal at the 2018 Southern.
There are relatively easy fixes to all of these aberrations, but to do so, we need to get over our "you can't do that" mentality or maybe it is "that is the way we always have done it."
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