Well,
No one produced a model eligible for our "Super 70s" event last Saturday.
(INFO: Super 70s had been discussed most of this year in the Cholla Choppers meetings, etc., by some heavy-weights in contact with many BIGS. It restricts eligibility to the decade of the 1970's. Models appearing outside the decade -earlier or later - are ineligible. Nos-30 has a sliding 30-year cutoff, and allows entry by models eligible for earlier-era events. "Our" purpose was to see what interest there was in models from the decade of the 1970's - distinct in several ways from the Classic era models - not yet tuned pipe nor 4-cycle nor universally higher-revving schneurles on flat pitch props...)
We offered the 70's-decade event mingled with Classic in one flight order, on one circle, same judges and time, with scores to be separated at the scoreboard. A flier could 'declare' entry to Classic or "70s" -but not both. Classic entry was good, and most of the same models were back Sunday, to fly EXPERT Class.
Nos-30 would have allowed models up to the end of 1979 - iow, the same era as our S-70 idea, but Nos-30 will advance to models from 1980 next year. S-70 wouldn't. We isolated S-70 so that we could see if there was sufficient interest in that era, or if it would be just another opportunity to trophy with the same Classic - even occasionally OT - model. We didn't get the entry, so the question is still open.
Wish we'd had some S-70 or NOS-30 entry. I have good memories of the advances through that era... Of course, we'll relook at the idea as support for Nos-30 emerges across the nation - we haven't by any means ruled it out! However, the absence of support this time will also be considered...