Soft Scores at tournaments

 In today's Opinion piece, I`m looking back at the time tournaments had something called soft scores.

Back then, not only was your tournament total the result of your games, but it also included various other factors.

Things like having your army painted, the wow-factor, sending in army lists on time,... they all added to your tally.  And while this wasn`t often the decider for the final top spot classifications, it did reward lower table players to not end last often.  Somewhere down the line between when I played my last really big tournaments (we are talking around 2005ísh, and the 6th edition of Warhammer) and current days this changed, and it became seperate categories no longer included in the grand total.

Which in a way, I find a pity, as it did motivate to paint up that extra unit and gave events with most of the armies present painted though.

Any thoughts on this?