"Andy" wrote in message
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On Feb 2, 1:53 pm, "HL Falbaum" wrote:
"rlovinggood" wrote in message

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Cordele is hosting a Club Class at Cordele in 2010. We have moved the date
to a bit later to try to avoid the bad effects of El Nino (and a few other
reasons).

We have Sports Class too and we will blend the Club Class into the Sports
Class if we must, but so far, it looks good to go.

Come sign up-We have the "A" for the staff.-we're planning a good time for
all who come.

Hartley Falbaum
Competition Manager
Region V South, Cordele, GA

Early days - but here is the current contestant sign-up by class:

Club - 8
15M - 4
Sports - 3
Standard - 2
18M - 1

If you get 40 total entries that will be 8 on average per class, if
you combined down to 3 classes you'd be at 11-12 per class or 50%
higher, but inevitably some classes will have more and others less. I
find 4-6 gliders in a class (can't have less than 4) a lot less
enjoyable and competitive than 8-10, so there's a tradeoff, but I'd be
a lot less inclined to go to a Regionals where there are barely enough
gliders signed up to make my class viable.

The idea of splitting/dividing classes depending on the entries can
make sense so long as you don't cave into pilot pressure and split a
class such that one of the split out classes has only 4-6 gliders in
it. I would find that frustrating.

9B

Andy;

It is early yet, and most of the Cordele "Regulars" are not yet signed up.
I agree--the more per class the better.
If I recall correctly, the 18-15-std can be combined as needed.
If we have to combine Club-Sports we can make the tasking "interesting" for
all.

Nonetheless--the Club Class wants to race for sure!

So-let's go for it and see what happens.

Hartley Falbaum
CM Reg V So 2010