Jim White wrote:

Jim White wrote:
In the UK pretty much every soaring club runs a annual comp to BGA
rules thereby qualifying their pilots for rating points which are used for
prioritising entry to Nationals comps which are run in FAI classes.

There are only two types of rated comp in the UK Nationals and Regionals,
so if a club wants to run a rated comp that's not a Nationals it is a
'Regionals'.

In addition there was Competition Enterprise run at North Hill and The
Mountain Soaring Competition at Aboyne. All in all 16 rated comps and 3
others involving XC racing.

That's more-or-less what I thought. There are around seventy gliding
clubs in the UK, so sixteen competitions isn't anywhere near "pretty
much every soaring club" ...

Ian