With all due respect, I am thoroughly sick and tired of this type of ''fairness'' argument. Masters is a higher, more challenging class with greater skills among the contestants than the lower classes. As such, one of the discriminators to help fairly pick the winner just happens to be having enough figures in a sequence so that the best pilot can rise to the top. The more you compress a schedule, the less ''fairness'' you have amongst the competitors in that higher class.

This is competition, not a federally mandated school lunch program.
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Ed, the Fairness problem isn't all just the length of the sequence, it's more the overload of Masters flyers that take up so much of the total contest time in addition to the sequence length. I know the Masters flyers want the longer sequence (I would too if I flew Masters) but the work load on the other flyers and contest management really should be considered.

Dave Burton