....And we have the 1-26 Champiouships in the USA. I see no problem with a
single class competition.


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On Saturday, February 8, 2014 3:20:12 AM UTC+1,
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There may be some truth in that last statement. I was able to find the
results from several standard class events in Poland from 2009 to 2013 on
soaringspot.com. In general, they have been able to get 40 to 50 entries
for a standard class event but a couple of recent ones had entries reduced
to half that number. Almost all entries are Jantar Standard 3. In the 2009
nationals there was one LS8 and it didn't win. In 2010 there were two
LS8's and two Discus with an LS8 winning. In 2011, there were two LS8's
once again and one of them won. In the 2013 Polish Junior Nationals, there
was one LS8 and two Discus and they finished in that order followed by 18
Jantars and a couple of other Polish gliders.



So, I guess with only a few of the higher performance standard class
sailplanes showing up and these now always winning, they were concerned
about two things: the experienced inability to win without one and the
effect this may have on entries going forward. They may have judged it
better to lose a couple of modern standard class entries to encourage many
more in, what else, Jantars.


The last Standard Class Nationals were held in 2011 and there were 10 modern
ships flying and I think they picked-up three more since then.
http://zawodyszybowcowe.info.pl/wyniki.php?wynid=390 In 2013 they had 15m
Nationals instead; basically a duplicate of a Standard Class.
http://zawodyszybowcowe.info.pl/wyniki.php?wynid=587
What’s interesting is that they use handicapping in all competition classis
and if you would like to compare with ours go here
http://komisja.szybowce.pl/artykuly/...szybowcow-2013
and then click on this Współczynniki 2013 do Załącznika nr¬ 1a+1b.xls