When they intend to have ten of those dog and pony shows, taking up valuable calendar space to sell to the highest bidder and indulge their F1 fantasies, then plenty is wrong with it. That was their stated aim. If you don't like the fútsal analogy then fine, we'll use your less apocalyptic one: how would it be viewed across most major leagues if they took a quarter of the football season and replaced it with 50-minute friendlies? I mean, I know some teams play weakened teams in some cup competitions they see as less important, but if they outright replaced those competitions with abridged friendlies, fans would be dead set against it.
Ski cross is the argument we've typically used, but I think it was Mayomaniac who made a good point last time around, or it might have been Gigs - one of the Alpine skiing fans we have on the board, anyway - Velon's events are like the parallel slalom event they've brought in in Alpine skiing. It's superficially like proper Alpine, and it's a short, few second long crash-bang-wallop, but it's to all intents and purposes replaced the Combined from the calendar, which has understandably alienated a lot of purists. The move in Nordic skiing to introduce more sprints and even more so the execrable Team Sprint has seen less opposition than expected largely because of a poor field of competition and conservative racing since they concurrently moved a lot of the distance races to mass start instead of individual (i.e. they bastardised the existing calendar so that the new format didn't stand out like a sore thumb as much). Now sprints account for almost half the calendar, real distance racing is dying, and XC skiing as a sport in general is dwindling massively as people haemorrhage over to biathlon.
Actually, you know what this is to me? This is the road cycling equivalent of when they took the kilo TT out of the Olympics and replaced it with the BMX. The Olympic BMX makes the lottery of short-track speed-skating look like the purest of all athletic endeavours. It is a dumb format built around the appeal of crashes, going back and forth across a bunch of artificial berms that was just borne out of them wanting to sell the sport as extreme, but without including any of the stunts, tricks and so on of X-Games BMX that was a large part of its appeal at the time, and getting rid of a time-honoured, historic format to make room for it. At least the Olympics only happens once every four years (or more, this being a unique outlier).
It's not the e-race that I have the problem with, yaco. It's using it to impose ridiculous team-over-rider formats to use a worldwide tragedy as an opportunity to push their agenda, because Velon believe the biggest problem with the sport is that we support riders rather than teams, and Vaughters trying to get his franchise idea, which he only came up with to protect his position and prevent anybody else from growing teams organically - just as he did - in case it was at his expense, in through the back door. Cycling is not perfect and there's plenty wrong with its management model as things stand, but this revolution is one we should want no part of.