It may help some if we change Advanced every two years. I think that is going to be the plan for the future. I've seen a number of Advanced guys move up prematurely in my opinion to Masters. Changing it every two years may keep them more interested to stay longer in Advanced to get ther skills polished to a point where they can more successfully make the jump up. But most of those guys I talk of after a few seasons of struggle have started to make great strides in their flying since moving up to Masters.

I do not think we have enough people flying these days to truly support an extra class. We already have more than half the contestants receiving a 1st to 3rd place award at local contests. Contest attendance on average is easily below thirty. Back in the late 80's the numbers were there, not at the moment.

By the way, I flew Expert T/A back then. It was probably on par with the current Advanced. Afterall, there has been some creap in sequence difficulty over the years.
I moved up to Expert T/A from nonturnaround Sportsman(now Intermediate) and took my lumps for a season, but it prepared me for the inevitable conversion to all turnaround. To think the first Masters Turnaround sequence was an old FAI sequence. To this day it is my most favorite sequence. To think of it, if there was an Expert Class today, it would probably make a good candidate sequence.