If it cannot be avoided, why should you be downgraded for it. And this rule is NOT intended to be a figure by figure deduction for placement of each figure. It is meant to be an overall score applied at the end of the sequence. It is completely qualitative by design and trying to make it quantitative when no criteria exist is not the proper application of the rule. It really, truly is an impression score. The judge's overall impression of the use of the airspace based on the judgability, whatever that is, of the sequence.

This is why I originally wanted a simple 0-5-10 scoring:

0 for flying all over the place, behind mountains, over the horizon and so far away you cannot see the plane.

5 for flying a normal sequence within the ordinary portions of the airspace. Basically, it looked pretty much like what I expected.

10 for demonstrating a superior use of the airspace flying nice a tight without rushing the figures and maintaining my ability to properly see and judge them. Basically this would be the score for the pilot that actually stayed inside the actual box.

Once again, I cannot fathom a methodology that allows scores to be parsed to 1 point increments.