"Jonathan, the hard deck is not intended to get you home. It's intended to keep from having to compete with those who are willing to risk life and limb to win."

I surely don't understand this aversion toward competition. It appears you want to pick and choose who you race against. In this new scheme of things, you would have to eliminate moffat, striedeck, and Scott, all of which I have observed making very low saves, very questionable final glides, and making charges into very formidable terrain.

Under your ideology we would have to consider all of them uninformed inexperienced idiots when flying in their prime.

If the adage holds that the foolish only win occasionally and it is consistency that really counts, why not let things remain as they are, the cream will float to the top, you choose when to take chances and not and you keep yourself alive. Let the foolish be foolish. If you fly consistently then your accomplishments will become obvious without clogging up the competition with yet another set of complicated rules forcing guys to stare at their computers to be sure not to break a hard deck instead of looking out at the wx and the ground for a thermal or a safe place to land.