Your point is fuzzy in your posts. You never answer your own question about what we are judging. You seem to say that having good equipment should be avoided if you want to prove you are the best pilot, so I guess you believe we are judging the pilot?
The truth is we are judging the whole program that allows the pilot to fly the best maneuvers. The "best pilot" doesn't win if he doesn't excel in all aspects of the stuff it takes to fly his model well enough to be the champion. This includes the selection of and maintaining the hardware and software and hours of practice concentrating on a small segment of flying RC models. The best pilot might be able to fly anybody else's plane better than the other guys but can he fly his model the best? Not if he doesn't do his homework.
Bottom line: it takes more than piloting skills to be world champion.
Jim O
So Jim what you are saying is that the next big thing in F3A is a 3 Axis gyro .......that will make everyone fly at their beast !!!