Gordon, I went back and forth on the points issue and here are my thoughts.

lets say for the sake of argument there are 8 428 entrants. here is the point scale for that race:
1 : 90.1
2 : 77.4
3 : 64.7
4 : 52
5 : 39.3
6 : 26.6
7 : 13.9
8 : 1.2

and if we have 16 for 424:

1:98.0
2:91.5
3:85.1
4:78.6
5:72.2
6:65.7
7:59.3
8:52.8
9:46.4
10:39.9
11:33.5
12:27
13:20.6
14: 14.1
15:7.7
16:1.2

you can see the scores are scaled to reflect the number of competitors.

one other thing is we want to encourage participation in 428. I dont want to penalize guys who might only want to fly 1 event. at the same time we would almost reward those guys who want fly both.

i'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on this.
how about a vote via email, when you guys pre-register.