contest number question

At 00:10 02 February 2018, Tim Taylor wrote:
On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 11:38:21 AM UTC-7, Jamie Shore wrote:
Is anybody aware of any contest committee talk (or actual rule change)
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the Under-the-Wing-Contest-ID requirement going away in the US?
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I've heard..
"..IGC does not require any more competition signs on the wing,.."
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SSA Website says..
http://www.ssa.org/ContestCommittee?...blog&id=3D1552
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Jamie Shore

I second UH's statement. Under wing numbers are no longer used for
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but for glider to glider identification and communication. Hard to tell
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he/she is about to hit you if you don't know who it is. "White glider,
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am on your right" does not work in a contest Read and follow the rules
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size and color. We have too many gliders with light grey number colors
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d script letters that are not legal at contests. As JJ said ten years
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we have one Diana that should not be allowed to fly because of script
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est ID, but he is easy to identify. For fun we could file a protest at a
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ontest just to make those without proper ID scramble.=20

Would anyone care to define this statement from the SSA site regarding the
size of contest numbers: "â—¦Numbers shall be as large as possible
consistent with form C position and clearance requirements."?