With point creep being what it is it may be a good proposal that if you pick up a tag in a unit that requires X amount of points then you forfeit your points if you take the tag. But then what would that point total be would be the question.
Strictly speaking secondary draw, leftover day below:
Well to me that's simple, it would be the minimum PPs of what it drew out at in the primary draw. You forfeit that much or less.
Examples:
If the tag drew out at 12 points in the primary and made it to "leftovers" list and you have 0 PP's you lose 0 pp's if you get the tag.
If the tag drew out at 12 points in the primary and made it to "leftovers" list and you have 6 PP's you lose all 6 pp's if you get the tag.
If the tag drew out at 12 points in the primary and made it to "leftovers" list and you have 15 PP's, you should lose 12 of your 15 pp's if you get the tag.
Since I currently have 3 points, I would have lost my 3 points in the above case, but it would have been well worth it to save years of time applying for such a great tag.
Instead, I get to keep them. Their rules, not mine. I think what I have above is a very fair approach and it makes everyone have some skin in the game and it keeps people moving through the system. What impacts it would have on finances? I don't know.
I'm grateful to have gotten the tag. But I do wish things worked differently to be fair to everyone. IMHO the above is fair to all as it still allows everyone to participate.
Sure, it can be and has been argued that the current system is fair. It is to an extent, but it does nothing to combat the point creep problem that has been glaring all of us in the face for years.
I'm sure the newly formed CPW roundtable will come up with something brilliant for 2025. Hopefully it is something like what I had above.
