I have talked to Captain about this on his server, and this is his opinion:
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you touched me inappropriately: so you want my opinion on
you touched me inappropriately: metagame pruning?
Bass: Post it in the thread
Bass: Because
Bass: In order for me
Bass: to come to a decision
Bass: I will need EVERYONE'S opinion
Bass: Unlike some of the other things I have brought up for discussion
Bass: there is a lot of disagreement
you touched me inappropriately: can't I just PM to you?
you touched me inappropriately: <_<
you touched me inappropriately: talk in P<
you touched me inappropriately: *PM
Bass: You can
Bass: But if you do
Bass: Post as well
Bass: So in case I forget what you said
you touched me inappropriately: I don't see why I should trash all the point values of said nonstandard tournies
you touched me inappropriately: my only interest in excluding them is
Bass: IS?
you touched me inappropriately: seeing who is better at a specific metagame but
you touched me inappropriately: we don't record that
you touched me inappropriately: it'd be more accurate MAYBE if we throw them out
you touched me inappropriately: but
you touched me inappropriately: I'd feel guilty over those tournaments not mattering at all
you touched me inappropriately: if I wanted to cull them
you touched me inappropriately: I'd have to put a seperate scoreboard that recorded all results regardless of the metagame
you touched me inappropriately: just to get rid of the guilt
you touched me inappropriately: secondly, more standardized tournies could mean better statistics, but it'll only matter towards CaP if they're only OU
you touched me inappropriately: again being partially effective
you touched me inappropriately: I can't see why people really want to cull this stuff really and empathize with it
you touched me inappropriately: now you know what I mean?
Bass: Yeah
Bass: Right now
Bass: I am kind of leaning towards eric's point
Bass: the scoreboard is a measure of participation
Bass: not primarily ability
you touched me inappropriately: so is laddering
you touched me inappropriately: but
Bass: at least with laddering
Bass: your rating is based on consistency
you touched me inappropriately: that is true
you touched me inappropriately: it requires more play to have a high CER but if you play enough the consistency gets more accurate ratings I bet
you touched me inappropriately: whereas that's not so true with the MT scoreboard
you touched me inappropriately: If anything it only opens up to a new rating system :/
you touched me inappropriately: but
you touched me inappropriately: the current one is simple
you touched me inappropriately: and good
Right now, I am still undecided on this issue, but I am currently leaning towards eric's opinion. While winning a non "standard" tournament certainly has less merit and requires less skill, the scoreboard's purpose is not entirely meant to show the relative skill level of players, rather, it is to show which players are or have been most active in Mini-Tournament participation.