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Originally Posted by MplsTom
I've given this issue a lot of thought over the years and here's what I've come up with:
1) This will never happen organically. Some of us are accustomed to certain styles, certain leagues, etc and we enjoy that style. Some of us want more emphasis placed on the TTQB and offense, some want less, etc. Some like multi-stop and random events some don't.
If I asked the USA to come up with a national style of music, do you think we could ever reach a concensus? No way.
2) The major manufacturers aren't leading the way. They aren't producing or marketing a certain style enough. They aren't putting dollars into events that promote the style that fits their product. I am fully convinced we would have a national style organically if a major manufacturer had thousands of people buying their product and coming to their event. People would gravitate toward that style as the official because they wanted to compete using that method. As it stands now we are too small and diverse within the ranks to create any type of groundswell. There's no buring platform.
3) I think we, as a body, can show some basics and common themes amongst the rule set to help the newbie but it will be one of our challenges. Certain coaches are very adept at one style of rules but won't venture outside of those rules or styles. That's their perogative - they should do what they enjoy. I don't see us, as a concensus body, being able to move the dial enough on this issue as lord knows we've tried.
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now how do u BEGIN to deal with those issues stated? The MFCA as it presently stands, is the only Organization that even attempts to represent the hobby as a whole, all others openly promote there styles depending on location. I know the guys have worked hard to come up with something digestable by the public, but the problem isnt the rules, its the process of which those rules were reached. No matter what u come up with, it can never further your goals in regards to the Mission Statement, because the act of creating those rules undermine your efforts to bring the hobby together. No matter what rules u write, by design your opposing YOURSELVES! The MFCA must break the cycle by freeing itself from the act itself. Its like trying to dig a hole, with your partner filling it back in, if u were to shed that baggage, bias & opposition will go with it. The MFCA can not appear in no way, shape or form to prefer any style, there role may be best served, by representing what has been passed up from the players themselves. Until we begin to change the fundamental way we approach some of these issues "SAME TACTIC, SAME RESULTS"!