I voted in the poll as many times as it would allow me to! I never even really looked at the short much as I am convinced that opting for the short is the wrong thing to do for the Masters class. I flew the long a number of times as soon as I saw it proposed. It is a fine pattern. The short however has several problems.

F3A can use a shorter pattern in the preliminary and then a same length final pattern as the difficulty goes up a bunch. Then in the finals they add an unknown. Masters flies one pattern and it needs a sufficiently difficult pattern to differentiate the fliers. It is after all the top AMA class. The short is not a good enough pattern to do that.

Also, was there any attempt with the online poll to make sure just those flying Masters voted in it? I wonder how many F3A pilots entered a vote.