Scoring Styles

After visiting a couple of schools and learning about their styles of martial arts I realize that this scoring business will not be as cut and dry as I had foolishly believed. To understand a style, you must understand its mindset. The mindset of the style is that of its founder, the founder is the product of their environment. Understanding this can help realize why each style fights the way it does. Shorin Ryu is always trying to be aggressive, in control of and on top of the opponent because of the Okinawa people who founded it. They were shorter than most and so had to compensate when they would fight taller opponents. American Kenpo was created by a man who in his youth was a street fighter in Hawaii. Every style has its own favorite targets, strikes and blocking styles, the problem is that in the end all of the different styles want to come to the same conclusion - survival of the practitioner and defeat of the opponent. What had originally been the less important in scoring, practicality of maneuvers, ease of escape, and time for full impact of damage to come into effect will be more important than damage dealt or sustained. Because most styles will deal roughly the same amount of damage, a knock out or kill. Also I must realize that the scoring will be for a random practitioner – not the highest black belt or the first class white belt (or equivalents) this must be based off if the style was used by completely average person with no experience of another style. It is obvious that any style is effective if used by an exceptional martial artist, and I have yet to visit a school with anything less than exceptional martial artists. So as I keep this in mind I continue on with my project to learn and train more.
Thank You     
Mr. Waaler