ORIGINAL: sewbusy
At present, the Airspace Control Score is the way to try to get pilots to learn to keep their sequence in a space that the judges can see it properly & judge accordingly.
Wayne, we both know that the actual reason for the Airspace score was an attempt to control the footprint of the sequence once IMAC admitted that it was essentially impossible to properly and accurately judge a well defined box. This was done with noise issues in mind. The ability to judge the sequence was the justification used rather than the primary reason for the rule.