First, with apoligies to our many international RAS friends whom many
must be thinking "boy you can sure tell when it's winter in the
states" ;-)

UH,

I, as I'm sure other Region 9 pilots do appreciate your and others
creative responses, as ZL notes, perhaps "the best approach for the
short term".

I see from the SSA contest page this two contest concept of Sports /
FAI occurred at Region 2 in 2002. I wonder if you or KS would be so
kind as to expand on this idea, specifically with the benefit of hind-
sight. I, as I'm sure others would like to hear the positive and
negitives as experienced by the organizers and pilot attendees of such
a split contest venue. Additionally, did this idea have the desired
effect in 2002, did anything change in R-2 from 2002 to 2003 due to
this concept, in short, why has this concept not been repeated since
2002?

Just a quick comment to the troupes, in my fairly short six year
sailplane racing experience I've been fortunate to attend regional
contest that contained contest numbers like, KS, A8, DJ, JJ, P7 just
to name a few of the many. Only one of these names comes from Region
9, and the experience for me as a "newbie racer" was and is richer for
it.

Respectfully,

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