I sent in my membership so I'm definately in, but this year at Knoxville isn't in the cards. Probably next year. I'd love to really see it take off up here in the midwest. I know there are a lot of the "evolution class" planes still around up here. Heck when I competed in the 80s, thru the mid to late 80s almost every plane at the contests were tipos, I'm sure there's still a bunch of them around. It's funny, I was just talking to my brother tonight about SPA, he's watching this very closely too, and I know he's in the silent minority pulling for pipes and retracts. In fact he said tonight if that were allowed, they'd definately have 2 more flyers cause he'd jump in with both feet. That's the era that we grew up with, so all of our old planes are setup that way, even my dad's Cold Duck from '73 has retracts. My brother flys a Phoenix 8 with pipe and retracts every week, and he just called my dad tonight to get our other tipo so that we can both fly tipos. In fact, I bet if the pipes and retracts rule was allowed, my dad would probably jump in as well. In the mean time, I'm going to purpose build a new old patternship over the winter. I don't want to hack up one from the existing fleet, just wouldn't seem right.