[Rexxx]

An English friend of mine once told me: Don't change your horses in the mid of the stream.
I know, I know, it's just a proverb but there is truth in it. Hopefully I can explain my point of view:

We have a contest with defined preconditions (which were open to discussion) for its whole course. If one or more of these preconditions are changed for the second round, we will get another contest. There are 12 races which are being eliminated in the first round. Possibly some of these races still would be in the contest if those new precondition(s) were used from the beginning. That's just what nobody knows and that is exactly my point. Changing rules during a contest will lead to a lot of "what if" questions.

My answer would be same even if the EEE were eliminated during the first round.