I would offer an "alternative fact", while soaring is declining in the US, I doubt it has anything to do with the Club Class definition, or with handicapping of club class. Hijacking an unrelated problem to bolster your position on yet another in-related issue is diffusing of the most important issue, "new blood".

1On Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 10:22:20 AM UTC-8, wrote:
All this arguing over who is the winner, when it takes an indepth education to understand who won given the complexities of the race. Meanwhile, the Daytona 500 was last Sunday and it was crystal clear who won the race. Millions watched it televised live around the world.

Soaring is exciting, it's thrilling, but all of these complexities reduces the interest of everyone to basically nothing.

Here in the world of Soaring, crossing the finish line first or last is entirely irrelevant. Only the elite few who have graduated from the College of Soaring Nonsense, can understand the race. Understanding how the rules work is about equal to understanding the tax code....

Once again, we find ourselves fighting over rules, and wondering why soaring is in a demise......hmmm, is this a parallel???

The more simple the rules are, the more attractive the sport is!