Todd Pattist wrote:

...I think there's a good chance we might keep more
by getting them to make the transition to XC flying,
lured on by the first Silver distance leg that we make
easy to prove with a COTS.

This is true.

It does no good for retention to present a list of rules many of which are
awkward, expensive, and irrelevant.

Badges have no intrinsic value; we have competitions to weed out pretenders; the
competitions themselves are too often built upon rules the like of which would
make no sense in any other sport with which most are familiar -- and yet we
can't understand why the sport is not sought after by 10,000 new participants
each year.

Ridiculous.



Jack