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Originally Posted by hi19hi19

The question you have to ask yourself is, are you okay with this being a SDG:

When you put it that way, you have to go back to what you think SDG means.

Most people think of SDG as a relatively "clean" score, but you've shown that there are ways to make it look "dirty" while keeping it within a loss of 250 raw pts. So is it poor performance? Does hitting extra arrows that aren't there considered a poorer performance than being slightly off-timing (i.e. goods) on <10 existing arrows?

Sounds like it comes down to whether there's greater importance in raw scoring versus arrow count. It seems that raw scoring was never really a very important aspect of the game with the exception of custom tournaments where tourney hosts put actual emphasis on it.

For the sake of input into Velocity's new engine, although some scores can appear dirty, raw scoring is IMO more finite and less ambiguous. If the first two options in the poll were to be used, there would be some players wondering why their scores weren't considered an SDG. The term itself though needs to be better defined in that case.