I emailed the GLDiv committee with the following question(s):

My question surrounds the new points rule as follows (upper case section below):

"3.A. Races
For 2013, all Regional Races in Great Lakes Division shall be eligible to be Championship races. ONLY ONE REGIONAL RACE PER REGIONAL SANCTION NUMBER MAY BE COUNTED. (QUALIFYING RACES WILL NOT COUNT). ONLY ONE SANCTION PER DAY PER RACE TRACK MAY BE COUNTED. Endurance races shall not be championship races. Regions must request championship status for their races by the Spring Training Seminar for the current year."

Using the Nelson Quad weekend as an example, who decides which single race is counted per day for GLDiv points? Is it based on your best finishing position among the two?

I received the following response:

I’ll answer this as a member of the GLD Regional Championship Series Committee. The 2013 RCS Rules that are posted on the GLD website are still proposed rules at this time. This reflects discussions within the Committee, and will be voted on by the Committee by the 2013 Spring Training (March 16th). This intent of this rule is to limit the importance of any one race weekend. What the Committee has seen for the past two years that the NEO Quad has been in place, was that there were large swings in the RCS results based off of the NEO Quad weekend. Competitors that had worked hard over the entire season were losing out if they were unable to attend that one weekend, to competitors that show up for that, and maybe one other weekend. While we do not want to stifle NEO’s efforts to host good competition, we do not feel it is fair to make a single weekend event so important to the championship.

To hopefully answer your question, it is going to be up to NEO to declare which sanction they want to count toward the RCS points. I’ve had discussions with NEO on this and expect them to decide prior to Spring Training so that we can place it in the RCS schedule.