Everybody who rides a 215 km calendar event is entitled to 2 points.
An ECE of 100 km added to the calendar earns an extra 1 point
An ECE of 85 km does not earn another point, because the ride is not 100 km.
No.
A calendar event of >=200<300km gets you 2 points.
Adding an ECE of sufficient length to make CAL+ECE >=300km gets you 3 points.
The ECE, in and of itself, does not carry any points at all - it only carries them in combination with the calendar event. It does not have to be arranged in 100km/1 point multiples (you have always been able, for instance, to add a 50km ECE to a 150km CAL, and get 2 points, where neither a 150km CAL nor a 50km DIY would, in isolation, get you any points at all).
I’ve not seen anything from the Board discussing and agreeing anything else, especially not a way of ‘fiddling the system’ to get extra credit from over distance calendars, and nobody can just decide to offer a concession.
This isn't 'fiddling the system' (and IMO it's a bit offensive to Martin to suggest that it is), nor is it a concession.
It's a recognition that technology changes and simplifies things. With paper PoP for the calendar, Martin's only scalable proof of distance (ie without checking *every* *single* *route*) is to take the nominal distance - ie CALnominal+ECEactual = Total. Points and time limit are calculated on the basis of this total.
With GPX proof of distance, he is able - for everyone who submits a suitable GPX - to work on the basis that CALactual+ECEactual = Total. Points and time limit are *still* calculated on the basis of this total. No-one's getting any recognition for distance they haven't ridden.
if folks can extract extra points from ‘their’ over distance, (by combining with under distance ECEs)
Except that no-one is doing any such thing. If you ride (and provide proof of distance for) a 215km calendar event, then the ECE required to take it to the next points threshold is 85km, not 100km. In this context, an under-distance ECE would be, say, 80km, ie one that did not take you to 300km.
You are, I think missing the point that CAL+ECE is *one* event, not two.
If you ride a 250km CAL (200 nominal) and a 250km DIY, you cannot combine them and get 5 points, because they are two separate events. If you ride (and provide proof of distance for) the same grossly overdistance 250km CAL, and a 250km ECE route to and/or from it, you can get 5 points, because they combine to make one event which is, in total, 500km.
(Picking up on references to the board, I am a member of the board, but any postings here are in a personal capacity. My views will be the same around the boardroom table, mind.)