I know 'ssmdive' disagrees, but I still don't see enough of an issue at the Sportsman level to consider handicapping. Decathlons have proven able to win at the National level, so we're really talking about making it "fairer" for the (literally) handful of Citabria pilots across the country who might actually come out of the woodwork because of a rule change. I just see it slighting 95% of Sportsman pilots in an attempt to make it "fairer" for the 5%. I don't see how that's in the interest of IAC.
Well, I can say that if I was not able to buy a Pitts that I was done with competitions. And I know many people who have acro ships and when I tried to talk them into coming out to a contest expressed the exact same feeling I had at my first one…. Why show up in a 7ECA and have to compete against everyone else with a Pitts or better? It seems that SAME feeling happens at the higher levels as well.

Maybe the Citabria market share is not enough for anyone to warrant changing anything, but then we have to admit that we don't really care if they show up either. And I thought the interest of the IAC was to attract new people, it seems the IAC only cares about attracting people who can afford high dollar aircraft.