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RE: [RC] Definition of Champion? - heidiWell, no, Truman--it doesn't welcome all in the tent. It threw
out of the tent those who feel that a champion is one who can endure
for a whole season. What is the harm in at least recognizing
those top horse/rider teams? Why are you and a few others so
paranoid about that? You can still have your FEI-style
winner-take-all NC sort of champion. You can still have all those
other winners. But what on earth does it hurt to at least
RECOGNIZE that there is a champion horse/rider team who rode the
whole season and earned more points than any other team?
This is the ONLY instance that I can recall in the entire history of
AERC where we had to kill off an award to try to give meaning to a
bunch of other awards. And that is just plain wrong.
I applaud the "big tent" concept, and I've always been supportive of
the varions "competitions within the competition" for such things as
families, married couples, stallions, etc. But I don't have to
eliminate the family award in order to enjoy my Jim Jones stallion
placings. There was absolutely NO REASON to have to eliminate the
points championship in order to have a one-ride winner as well--except
for the fact that deep down, those who promulgated the newer
"championship" systems wanted the name, and knew deep down that folks
would still remember the points champion.
Heidi
The basic problem lies IMO in two directions. First endurance is a big
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