He mentioned in this interview on Agoride that he's working on a scoring system for contests that will be ready in two years (the article is one year old, so I guess next year we'll see it in place). A buddy of mine explained what he had heard about it, and I was pretty impressed. From what I understand, it's like a video game, where tricks are worth a certain amount of points, and harder tricks are worth more. The more combos you put together, the more you score, as the points build upon themselves. Now everything I've heard is through ehar say. Does anyone have any info on how excatly it works?

It has always seemed strange to me that people can say one trick is harder than another. Some people find whiplashes hard....others find just getting down the street impossible.

Hmm. I agree, tricks are only hard when you don't know them... Once you have them dialed, they are easy.

But, you could build a system like this, as long as Everyone knew what the trick points were.

It would seem to me that this type of system would cater to those riders who build a single contest routine, and use it at every contest...  which would get old, imo...

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I kinda worry that the tweaking it would need would be pretty non-stop....
Are non-rated tricks allowed, and how do you deal with them?
Is the scoring done on a slo-mo video playback?
etc etc
Be interesting to see the details though.

i just can't see this will happen.. to be honest i don't want it to happen. i'm sure Chad will do his best to create a fair system of scoring but i think it will kill the fun of the contest.. i know some freestyle sports where they started a system like this and it's just not good to think back like: 'ohh sh*t i lost 5 points when my foot touched the ground that's why i came 2nd!'
the system they used at the BIDC seemed quite fair i liked that but i don't think we should make contests so difficult. i know it's not fair now and the judges just can't make a decision everyone likes but will it be better to say: 'of course he is better he has 50 points more than the other guy.' ?
i just think this all would make this lovely sport a little bit less "freestyle"

Is there something I'm missing here? Nine people posted their opinions, so they must have a multitude of insider information on the system, right?
 
Can someone fill me in with some facts about how it works?

In the new Ride UK Effraim explained the system as;

"Chad Johnson has been working on a simplified solution to judging, he has created a points system for every possible trick, variation and bike position on a bike"

Umm, points based system related to each trick having a score and linking into/out of tricks having a score etc - that's ridiculous 

Si.