Along with IDPA, I particapte in a league that uses a different scoring system. They use 0-down for head shots and 0-down for heart-shots. So, theorhetically, I can shoot 5 targets with five bullets and complete a stage 0-down if I landed them all in the head or heart 1-each per target. Pop-Pop-Pop-Pop-Pop. Done. (Of course they rarely go down like that, but it's possible)
The reason I mention this is that I see how those guys shoot that league vs IDPA. You still have the fast guys, but you also have the slower but deliberate guys. The same good guys show up at the top. The really good guys (top 10%) are both fast and accurate.
The only people that are really, really penalized are the new shooters who simply don't know the rules of scoring, are nervous, and are generally inexperienced in this game. ALL 3 of those go away after a handful of matches.
So, the bottom-scoring shooters aren't at the bottom because they are trying to "slow down". They are there becasue they, "don't know how to do things faster." (acquire a sight picture, fire a good shot, reload, change positions...). All of those things are known by the mid and upper level shooters.
Personally, I don't think things will change much in the end as everyone will reevaluate their strategies...except the newbies who have no established strategies at all, and therefore no reason to complain.
