The RC should consider restructuring the Sports Class
nationals into the Club & Modern Class Nationals with two distinct
score sheets.

This is an interesting idea, under consideration. You need a "modern
class" and also a "low performance class" to really replicate sports
class, and now we're spreading awfully thin. But it could work. The
mixed handicap regionals seem to be a success.

Some Club Class enthusiasts have even expresses
interest in adopting international rules. *Arguably this could produce
the most prepared pilot for World level competition.

It could also produce unsafe flying, massive pilot confusion, and a
steep decline in participation. Who wants to go back to mass landouts,
starts up in the clouds or at VNE, finishes 1 inch over the barbed
wire fence, and scoring formulas that make a necessity out of 2 hours
of start gate roulette, then sticking with a big gaggle and all
landing out together? What fun.

World rules are a great idea for a US team camp/contest, not for US
nationals struggling to attract pilots, 99% of which are there for fun
not to prepare for the worlds.

John Cochrane