How about sensible mintact vs no mintact. Too often we don't have sensible one. Which is
minimum 30 km for those that aren't up to date
Instead we get stuff like 10km. Can somebody tell me the point of a 10 km mintact? I fail to see any. 5 km? I fail to see any. It's just pro forma at that point. Then we rather cut it. As the Donkey does when he has to design a criterium.
Sadly of course in long races a longer mintact makes more sense, while in short races a short one, or none, makes perfect sense.
- A 250 km race, at 50 km from the end you enter the critical phase, controlling teams have used up riders, the helping ones are weakened, attacks by fit or fittish riders can turn out to be dangerous, you have to try to keep your final riders as long as possible. 30" tact, you miss a km, people in office, people who go for a pee, people who have a short talk with family members, people who have quickie with Quick, people who hang out on other sites for mysterious reasons and miss 3', people who are cooking at the same time, they all need to forget all those other things, can't miss a km. Critical phase, all dangerous. 40 km from home even more, 30 km again more.
- A 100 km race, 20 km from the end? You can go for a shit and miss nothing, the race is basically on autopilot, high tempo from km 1, if it's a lazy race from km 30, you basically know what you want to do, thinking not required anymore really. Attack km 93, can put that in before I take my shit, it's rather predictable what will happen on km 93. Or if you want to chase, then put in off settings.
So those "time saving" freaks, that occasionally say that on short races they are ok with longer mintacts are in my as usual insulting opinion complete idiots. Who simply haven't understood when mintacts make sense and when not.
As for voting stuff, forget it. So we get a race with 10 km mintact and according to Lenny we get the option to keep it or shorten it? But not to prolong it? And even if we sensibly get the option to prolong it, who needs the endless voting discussions, who needs the endless whining by those that then come late because the race finishes 10 minutes earlier, who needs the endless whining of those that wanted a 5 km mintact (for whatever reason, it makes no sense) and now are stuck with 22! If you have time to whine about the long mintact here you have nothing better to do offline anyway, we might as well go back to all mintact!
So the Donkey says: NO to short mintacts.
First choice: Sensible mintacts!
Second choice: No mintacts.
Can liveve with both, but not with those super shorts mintacts, that make no sense (well can live with them too, have to, but they make no sense)
But be aware that no mintact changes the game. It changes from a strategy game to a reaction game in some ways.
Seriously wondering if somebody can explain to me the point of 10 km mintacts btw.
