So the ladies 1440 is like removing 90m section and putting in a 60 m to replace it.
I have always considered my handicap a better way of defining my current skill level as it includes all rounds, long or short, record status or not....your " position" in the classification system; you need to keep on showing you haven't gone downhill.
To my way of thinking these are two different things and both should be able to exist independently of each other.
Because it's possible to lower your handicap on all rounds (no matter how short*), but to achieve your MB/GMB you need to shoot an all day (12 doz) round at your maximum distance. So it's a very rough method to show that to get that score it wasn't a case a a handful of good ends, but a sustained effort. Hence the need to do it three times in a season. You are demonstrating you are at that level, not just a bit lucky.So, if the handicap is a better way of defining your skill levels( I cannot say it is or isn't, but it would seem to be) then should not the MB GMB classifications be based on archer's handicaps and not scores from X number of specific rounds? Who decided to select GMB or MB via a few scores? Why are the inroads to them separated?
I like your idea of two different badges... one for all time and one for now.Handicaps are a way of levelling the field so that a wide range of skill levels can take part in the same competition, classifications are an absolute level of ability compared to the whole GB archery community.
Ahhh... they are. If you take an anal view of the HCs and the classifications you will see that the classifications are not an average, or some other mathematical extrapolation of entered scores alone, but manipulated by a human input. If the classification levels were done by score alone they would not correlate to handicap thresholds. However they do!Why can handicap levels not be used as MB and GMB pass marks?