How to engage the "Extreme Rookie" community?

[Massman]

Based on the feedback of this thread, the most preferred solution is one where we create an additional League in between Enthusiast and Extreme rather than for example allowed a number of extreme submissions in the Enthusiast league. The question is what the best transition from Enthusiast to Extreme is (for those who want it) considering that access the LN2 isn't as easy as some of us think.

 

- time-based; you can stay in the "rookie extreme" for a finite period of time before bumping up

- cooling-based; anything LN2 goes in to the Extreme league, anything between water and ln2 goes in to the "rookie extreme"

 

I think the latter makes more sense. If it's time-based it essentially means we push people in to a league they have no interest / ability to compete in. Rookie -> Novice -> Enthusiast is always the same cooling.

 

If it's cooling based, what would be allowed for the "rookie extreme"? TEC, Single Stage, Dry Ice, Cascade?

 

Also, we need a better name than Rookie Extreme for this.

[dx4picco]

maybe 3 month in Xrooky after first sub 0° submission and then moove to xtrem

[MGFDerp]

Based on the feedback of this thread, the most preferred solution is one where we create an additional League in between Enthusiast and Extreme rather than for example allowed a number of extreme submissions in the Enthusiast league. The question is what the best transition from Enthusiast to Extreme is (for those who want it) considering that access the LN2 isn't as easy as some of us think.

 

- time-based; you can stay in the "rookie extreme" for a finite period of time before bumping up

- cooling-based; anything LN2 goes in to the Extreme league, anything between water and ln2 goes in to the "rookie extreme"

 

I think the latter makes more sense. If it's time-based it essentially means we push people in to a league they have no interest / ability to compete in. Rookie -> Novice -> Enthusiast is always the same cooling.

 

If it's cooling based, what would be allowed for the "rookie extreme"? TEC, Single Stage, Dry Ice, Cascade?

 

Also, we need a better name than Rookie Extreme for this.

 

Combine Rookie/Novice, then go enthusiast, and ultra/extreme-enthusiast, extreme, then pro. So just started, then air/water, then dice/cascade/ss/chiller, then LN2, then Pro.

Also can you incorporate the 5G type challenges into competitions, but with cooling limits. That way it comes done to OS and tweak skill and even enthusiasts can see where they stack up against the pros. While I understand that it definitely takes skill to do the extreme cooling, I think this type of competition would test everyones software, tweaking skills on a level playing field. Like NASCAR in the US, ideally the same car so it comes done to driver skill instead of engineering/money.