Rick Culbertson wrote:
Don't fool around with the Regional system, it seems to me to be
working exactly as intended and people are having a blast.

The simple answer as I see it is to schedule an additional contest at
the site, in this case Parowan but not a pseudo regional. I'm very
intrigued with the Super Regional concept, but not the name or its
current format. The concept as I understand it is where multiple
classes; Standard, 15m, 18m and Sports containing high caliber pilots
coming from all over the country to compete / race at the same Premier
site and at the same time!

I'll go a step further outside of the box, and rant that the actual
problem may be with the national contests, rather than a few overly
popular regionals. The days when the entire family would drop
everything for two or three weeks, jump into the station wagon and drag
Dad's glider across the country are long gone.

What percentage of nationals have had a full entry list in recent years,
and where have they been located? Perhaps the east/central/west
rotation isn't really working, and it's time to consider running shorter
east/central and west/central nationals for all classes at popular
venues every year...

Marc