At 19:24 26 August 2006, Bill Daniels wrote:

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Only 21 planes on the grid at storied Uvalde, TX for
the U.S. Std.
Class Nationals, even with three non-U.S. guests.
This was apparently
Uvalde's smallest contest of any kind, including regionals,
and smaller
even than most U.S. regionals.

Must be a US thing
Lasham regionals in Uk 68 entries was on at the same
time as the open class nationals with 26 entrants (
mainly Nimbus3/4, ASH25 and ASW22)
The Standards 49
15m 36
18m 49 simultaniously with the club class 41
According to FAI stats UK has about 9000 glider pilots
and USA has far more. Is it travelling distance that
is the problem?
Nigel