Ep 28: The Score – The Run For the Million Qualifier 2024  Review & Analysis

The top scores were three points lower than the 2023 qualifying scores. The numbers are in and the analysis is complete. What do the results from this years’ qualifier say? This episode compares 2024 to last year’s qualifying event.

Ten new riders get qualified for The Run For A Million in August in Vegas at The South Point Casino.

The depth of Open competition continues to drive forward and find new peaks and valleys and this competition proves it.

An in depth analysis of the scores, what they say, how to interrupt them and what do they mean?  This episode slices and dices the numbers and scores including penalties applied and not applied along with the maneuver evaluation decisions made. We focus on the top riders that get qualified for the Run For The Million.  We look at and review runs that were at the cut line for making the top 10.  We share and explain the  stats of the officials performance and error rate on the entire open aged event.

Our Moderator
Chelsea Sutton
– Premier Reining Announcer
– CEO / Founder ConsultMent Agency

The Show Rundown

  • Top 10 Qualify for 2024 RFM in Vegas: What the scores say.  
  • Maneuver scoring: Can officials identify and report levels of excellence
  • Maneuver spreads:  How can the maneuver scores be good and poor at the same time ?
  • Does penalty application non-unanimous affect the final scores? 
  • Officiating for Reining: Are we ready to step up our judging system?
  • Performance Rate for officiating. What does the Error Rate say?

On display are at examples of excellent rollbacks with clips from Nathan Piper rider Doctor VooDoo, Duane Latimer, riding CS Especially Moody and Martin Muehlstaetter riding Good Time To Tashya. This episode illustrates why  rollbacks are the hardest maneuver to mark consistently in the sport of reining.

This episode displays graphs on statistics and data from the Top 10 qualified runs along with graphs of officiating performance and officiating error rate including penalties applied and penalties applied that are not-unanimous across all official score cards. 

Video runs used in video review and analysis are:

Trevor Dare riding Spat Toy Boy Gun 

Cira Baeck riding Out Of The Furnace 

Tom McCutcheon riding Super Marioo

Matt Mills riding Guns and Dynamite

 

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