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Open Forum / Re: 2025 Nats Qualification Groups, scores and final reports
« Last post by Brett Buck on Today at 05:43:19 PM »Well, if we are on the topic of "just for the hell of it", the consideration to just drop the BOM and move forward could also be included in that conversation. Now, before the hellfire gets rained down on me for bringing it up, Really, what are folks afraid of? I ask this honestly, with very little snark. And if BOM went away, why would top level guys choose to boycott a hobby that has entertained them for a lifetime?
Because *that hobby had been eliminated by rule*. I am utterly uninterested in buy-and-fly contests using bought models. It reduces this event to a mere shadow, a pointless handle-waving exercise - just like FAI, which is now (for the most part) a meaningless exercise, starting the moment there was an "FAI World Champion" using a model built by someone else.
You get a vote, I get vote, I will vote no, and I will also expect the 80% of the current participants will also vote no. If you decide to do it anyway, I and most other NATS winners will strongly push to retire the Walker Trophy - because the winner would no longer deserve it. To continue to award it under those circumstances would be a slap in the face to every name on there.
Brett