Painless:

Glad you had a good time and will continue attending events. Make sure you catch the race in Phoenix in October.

Just a small history lesson about your comments:

>>but their site is so far from anything that noise shouldn't be an issue.

How true, but that site was the first one to enforce noise limits. Two guys showed up with Nelson powered planes and were told they could not fly them because they would be too noisy. This was before the planes were measured by a DB meter. The two guys packed up their stuff and left for a 7 hour return trip home and I believe have never attended a SWRA race since.

>>I saw no evidence of "politics", and heard no complaints from anyone.

That is good but it is important to note that you also did not see 40+ pilots entered, which used to be common for a Tucson or Phoenix race. I would guess the race drew 20+ pilots. There 20+ missing. IMO, to get them back is not a simple a rules tweak.