On Monday, January 20, 2020 at 8:11:09 PM UTC-5, wrote:
I flew in one of the first "bomb burst" starts about 25 years ago.
There were about 50 ships, all at cloud base when the go signal was sent.
We almost all came back saying that we never wanted to do that again.

I remember that one - terrifying.
IIRC that was also the USA intro of the DG-600, for sale by mid-contest...

Both concentrating everyone at the start was bad AND the first few gaggles
was quite dangerous. Even in SGP format (limited number of contestants) the
starts have been much too exciting...