<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;color:#0000ff">National Ranking System is the NATS itself.  I don&#39;t think people don&#39;t travel because they don&#39;t know where they rank nationally.  I think it comes down to dollars spent.  Although I can see some benefits, I think it would be fairly difficult to do this without simply using raw score of flights flown and compare to others.  That involves another complexity which is judging.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:36 PM, richard wallace <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rickwallace45@gmail.com" target="_blank">rickwallace45@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Don&#39;t think so. <br>
Don&#39;t know how a national ranking system for pattern guys could possibly be meaningful....</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Nov 5, 2013 1:59 PM, &quot;Keith Hoard&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:klhoard@hotmail.com" target="_blank">klhoard@hotmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Would a National Ranking System similar to what’s used in <a href="http://www.usta.com/Adult-Tennis/USTA-League/Information/About_NTRP/" target="_blank">amateur 
tennis</a> get you to go to a contest that you normally wouldn’t attend?  
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<div>Keith Hoard<br><a href="mailto:klhoard@hotmail.com" target="_blank">klhoard@hotmail.com</a></div></div></div></div>
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