More complaining about IGC rules as if US rules are the solution. Sigh.

Absurdity is spending tremendous effort developing an entirely different, watered down set of competition rules (US rules, which serve only to isolate the USA from the rest of the world) and then attending the World Championship contest once every two years vs the very best pilots in the world flying under the rules (IGC) which they are all intimately familiar, practiced and coached and expecting to be competitive.

No assigned tasks, HATs, etc.

Insanity is doing this same exercise over and over, again and again and expecting a different result.

Our junior team faught extremely hard through a myriad of institutional handicaps. Just as our overall US team does. I feel it's a good time to point out the 200 ton elephant in "the room."

Congratulations to Boyd (9th), Daniel (15th) and JP (22nd) and their great coaches and crew. They truly did an incredible job despite tremendous disadvantages against most of the other teams.

The question is will the US take any action to help be more competitive. Answer: ?. ...back to the land of the soaring vacation? And the European teams (and Australia) go back to the land of incredible Junior development, training and culture.

Sean