Analyzing US Competition Flights

Two interesting replies to my question of why people think the OLC is fun.

The first response boils down to: OLc is fun because it is, and shut up! It’s quite passionate, but as a response it’s not very persuasive or informative.

The second responder says OLC is fun because it’s simple to do, people are doing it, the posted flights prove gliders can do something, and you can use the results to put down some snotty pilots and soaring sites. Somehow, none of these match my definition of “fun”.

Seriously, can anybody explain why they find OLC is fun? I’m not putting it down, I just don’t think that it’s any more “fun” than logging my flight time. I find the fun in the flight, not in an artificial, biased, “contest”.

-John