It might not be that much of a contradiction - especially if we interpret a gliding competition in essence as an opportunity-risk balancing game. If we assume for a moment that krsaw's observation regarding an advantage of the EB29R is directionally correct, it could well be that comrades Sommer & Bode are using a potential performace edge in their gliders to achieve consistent good scoring results while keeping their risk limited (that is also the implication of the most recent youtube interview with Michael Sommer where he argues that a key benefit of team flying for him is to avoid mistakes), instead of trying to use a potential glider performace advantage to always outpace anybody else. If one follows that perspective, it should be no surprise that other top pilots in the numerous and still excellent JS1cs on any given day are achieving similiar or even better speeds than the two EB29R - but potentially at a slightly higher individual risk and a higher volatility in individual results.

Just a hypothesis and maybe not worth the used bits/bytes

Marc, S2