Agree that forum and pub team events should only reward those that get deep - silly to see people hanging on for another point when still 90 runners in the tourney.
For the international event scoring, I"m split. I tend to agree that F1 style scoring is better, but the ramp up at the heavy end has to be significant to make it work. In the last event, if I recall correctly, it was 1 point per ladder jump until the last three when it became 2 points per ladder jump..... I don"t think this has the desired effect in that it just went to a different level of flatness.... I would like to see 15, 12, 10, 8, etc.... or if we really want to reward STT winners, then 20, 15, 12, 10, 8, etc.
All that said, Paulie has a point (OMG - I agree with Paulie on something) that in the last event, it was such a squeaky bum ending that I would be inclined to change nothing.