Why does 4.0 exist?

[Shabby J]

Does it exist so that more figure brands and bases can be allowed to play or does it exist more for performance reasons or does one naturally come hand in hand with the other?

What are your thoughts on this, as it was not too long ago and 4.0 was shunned by the masses, now it's seems to be catching on fire.

Feedback please.

I get the feeling that from reading post after post that people are all mixed up in their opinions on this. There are still a die hard group of coaches who refuse to play at this weight.

Does this question make sense?

[Reginald Rutledge]

Shabby,

This is kinda like the 3.2 gram scale that was established in 1995. This was another one of those situations that started off with me showing some of the FF.COM figures to some of the coaches in the league back in 1997. At the time, I admit I had no intentions of using in the DFW League. However, some of the guys liked them a lot. Some wanted them in immediately. Others balked at the idea of switching from traditional players. I started thinking about it to myself, "I let every manufacturer products in to play, why not my own?". It created a strike in the league.

At the time, I set a weight standard of 4.4 grams. For that season, our league was fractured and some went on strike because they did not want to play against the figures. They felt I forced them on them. In my opinion, I felt that this was a league I had establish. I had allowed everything else in the league so why not allow my own products into a league I had established? I never forced anyone to use them or even asked anyone to support my products. They did not. Just a few such as Michael Robertson.

So the next year, we scaled back to 4.0 grams. The reason being is because of the psychological effects of 4.0 vs. 4.4 grams. We felt this allowed a mixture of everyone's figures to get in from Larry Walker's figures to Tudor. With some, you would have to add weight but with others, you would be right on the scale.

There was great opposition across the country. I never once forced anyone or any league to use my product. I always allowed everyone else's products in my league and the Texas Shootout. Many customers had been forced not to use FF.Net products and had been waiting for the day to bring them out.
The 4.0 gram scale is just created to allow everyone's figures to play in a league. Nothing more, nothing less.

That is from the horses mouth. That is why it exist.

Reg

[Reginald Rutledge]

that my figures performed very well at 4.0 grams.

We found that over the last 8 years, the 4.0 grams has had such an impact in the overall enjoyment for the game, at least on our part.

But whether its 2.0, 3.0, or 4.0, it makes no difference if everyone is allowed to compete equally. And in the past, that had not happened.

Reg