Good stuff, thanks John!

On Memorial Day Weekend, the SGC Soaring Foundation (Region 8 -
Ephrata, WA) is going to be putting on a 3 day "contest" event called
the "Ephrata Dust Up" ( http://www.dustup.org ). Its designed to ease
newcomers into contest soaring, and provide mentor opportunities
between those folks and some of the contest gurus we have in our
Region. We intend to follow the Regionals rules as much as possible,
so some of these changes (like multiple handicap classes) are welcome
additions (i.e. we can now have a "beginner" and "advanced" class
while still ostensibly running things under Sports Class rules).

Next step: Rules simplification (where possible). Let's keep
knocking down these barriers to contest flying where practical, and
hopefully show more folks that contests are fun and exciting - not
scary or dangerous or overly-complex!

Take care,

--Noel