All your points were great but this is the one I'll disagree with. Medium to softer is where we should be shooting for. Always gonna be those that push the boundary. If we all draw the line at medium, the outliers will only end up in the "solid" bracket. If you say the line is at solid, the outliers will have "face melting tourney winner" lists.
I fully agree the onus should be on captains and their team instead of a committee though. Seemed to work pretty well this year with still policing.
(Also, it's super easy for me to push more responsibility to the Cap'n because I'm not a captain!)
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