I agree with you about streaching out the maneuvers. That would help score higher but is just appeasing the bias that exists with the judges. I just don't like the idea that they say that the only parameter that is judged is the geometry, but in reality that's only one factor that is actually considered. The guy flying the .60 sized plane can only streach so far until his plane is too small to see the detail in a maneuver. (and gets downgraded). The only way for him to present a maneuver so that it can be seen is to keep it in tighter - now they can see the detail in the maneuver but downgrade him for flying too small and tight. The guy with the 30% plane can fly far out and larger - giving the judges more time to score it and making them happier (hence higher scores). If the .60 guy and the 30% guy fly identically correct (geometrically) maneuvers, but fly different sized maneuvers, the .60 guy will get a lower score (sometimes significally) than the 30% flyer and loose every time. If IMAC wants to make it a 30% or larger event - fine, but don't try to fool the .60 guy into thinking he has any realistic chance of doing well.

- Of course that's my opinion - I could be wrong