by curtc
Pintsizepete wrote:
It's because "catch-up mechanism" is normally meant in terms of catching up when someone is behind in points, but flares "catch up" when someone is behind in board position, not necessarily correlating with points at all.
Focusing on points seems unnecessarily specific. But I know how these semantics discussions go. Call it whatever you want.
The bigger issue is whether it works well, is "elegant", etc. My argument is that it does, and is.