Myself making the jump from intermediate to advanced next year, having flown both the intermediate and advanced new sequences... I feel that the advanced could be a bigger jump from intermediate... the jump from sportsman to intermediate is fairly large and a challenge when you first fly it, but I am not finding the advanced sequence that much more difficult than the intermediate... the jump from advanced to masters is more similar to the sportsman intermediate jump... so making advanced a little more difficult would even out the jumps between classes better.