Indeed as Leo says you have to scale everything

The bottom line though is that the Feather events just don't make the money that the heavy events make, you can't get as many people around the arena, and the tickets just don't command so much money. So if people want to run the events for fun as opposed to make a living out of it, feathers are the way to go, but to make a living out of it the feather events just don't cut it. Also remember we have one (at most 2) full combat feather events a year at the moment ..... would people still invest as much if they were attending 10 a year and getting the cr*p kicked out of them ?.... XFM's experience tells us that people wouldn't.

At the moment I think we have a good balance, the feather events are in-frequent enough for people to invest heavily and produce some great machines. The heavy events are there providing the funding for a few individuals to make a living out of this which is great.

The wise person realises that diversification is the answer to survival in almost any situation, to say 'the future is in feathers' or 'the future is in heavies' might mean that's where you see your future, but to see it as black or white isn't the answer.

Anyway - let's not get dragged off topic, this is about the sad situation in the US, not about re-igniting the same ground-hog day debate about feathers vs heavies.

Ed