Here is some more food for thought.

Why not have the long sequence as the official sequence for the Nats and have the short one available as an option at the CD's descretion at the local or regional contest level?

A significant number of maneuvers are in both sequences.

As Tony stated, the new long sequence is shorter in time than what we are flying now. I was involved in the design of both sequences and personally think the longer one is a better sequence.

As I said before, people need to go out and fly these sequences first.