As Chris "eflfanatic" showed with his pdf, he introduced a similar idea last year. The idea comes up every so often in one form or another. Usually it revolves around for a bit, but ultimately dies out because of rules differences. I believe that we will get to the point of having a national championship, but I also believe that it will never be more than 50% of the active players out there.
The CBSMF has essentially started this already with the 4.0 Texas Shootout style. I think this is great and should be supported and continued, but there is also a wide contingent of coaches out there who prefer other styles that are distinctly different than the Shooutout Rules yet similar to one another.
Just as table hockey has two different or maybe more styles of tourneys and championships based on the equipment they are using, (Stiga Tourney, Coleco Tourney, other) miniature football could do the same. The debate needs to shift from 1 style for all to maybe 2 styles or at the most 3 styles for all. To me, I can pick up any set of rules outside of the Shootout style and with some minor adjustments be ready to play with a good enough understanding to be competitive. The big question is if the non shootout styles of rules can get together under 1 banner as the CBSMF did under the Shootout style? They are all so similar that it seems that with a little give and take we could do this and create these events.
Now don't go telling me we are splitting the hobby....that is not it at all. It is simply identifying the major breaks in the game/rules from one another and allowing each of those entities to flourish. We can all be part of the MFCA banner because they are all a style of electric football, but why not accept the fact that we have two distinct styles and let them both run.
So when do we make this happen? We need to start with finding which coaches/leagues across the country want to play and are willing to adjust because time constraints, family, WIVES, etc only allow for so many leagues/tourneys that we can feasibly take part in. We don't want to change or take away from the leagues that exist as they are running now, but rather see if they have enough interest to play one tourney out of the year by a national standard.
There is my 2 overly stated cents.
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1. a person/hobbyist/gamer who creates a representation of American Football in a small or reduced scale for competition or show.
2. the majority of forum users on the website, www.miniaturefootball.org
—Idiom
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