"Nationals would count as the first qualifying score of the season. For example a Men's competitor scores 1900 points in tricks at the 2011 Nationals. This score would be the first of the two required qualifying scores for Freestyle at the 2012 Nationals"
I think its a huge improvement, from the days we had to score it at the event. Fact of the matter is that if you're qualified for Nationals in tricks... you're qualified for freestyle. But... the same can't be said about the state level.
The qualifications aren't a difficult task by any means... they're actually quite easy in fact. But... I'd like to see no qualifications for freestyle. Simply, you showup, you signup, you pay, you ride. Thats what we do for slalom and tricks.
On those rare (and now about to be extremely rare) occasions that someone doesn't qualify for freestyle... everyone does get a lil bummed for that person. I've been there and it sucks when you pay a ton of money in gas, food, entry fees, time etc to go to an event to compete in freestyle and not qualify.
But playing devils advocate, there is a con to my idea... It doesn't reduce the athletes that are at the level to compete in freestyle. Hypothetically if we are getting 4 really strong athletes and 100 with lesser skill. I'm not going to lie, that would be a lot more time consuming and a lot more money in gas that the organizers have to cover, aswell we know the 100 riders aren't anywhere near the level of the 4 strong athletes... it would seem like a waste of time and more hard work.
Back to my opinion, but I think this hard work that would pay off. If we had 100 lesser skilled athletes competing against 4 strong athletes. I think this alone would push the athletes to want to better themselves so that they could compete against these stronger athletes. Its the same reason I think Jr.s should be allowed into freestyle aswell.
Regardless, good job to the board members. This was a definitely a big change for the better and it gives the athletes a lot more breatheing room :)
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