Quote Originally Posted by fozzy View Post
This thread is rapidly becoming like the Intelligent Design v Evolution debate.

The ID people see a tiny hole in the Evolution argument and drive to drive a bus through it, claiming that the one flaw overrides the whole wealth of evidence for evolution, rather than looking at the huge, gaping holes in their own argument.

I am not saying the SI system is perfect, nor has anyone claimed it to be, but it is a better system than tags, writing numbers or anything else. Yes, it's not going to be useful in some races (especially some short races - too many people, too close together, but then again your marshals aren't out as long), but it would be in a significant majority of cases.

If you objectively weigh up the benefits, and get this "anti-any change whatsoever" view out of your heads, you will quite clearly see this.
I like your choice of argument, evolution v intelligent design but I suspect its you thats putting faith in the god of technology while us luddites prefer to rely on more basic methods!