Steve-This is my opinion not directed at you personally. When you pay the entry fees that IBO has $50 in the case of RU I do not feel it out of line for you to have a cash payback. They only give ONE plaque to this class. Now in looking at the breakdown of the $50, $10 goes into the pot for the class, $6 to the IBO(this is the figure I have been told by an IBO representative) and $34 goes to the host club. Regardless of the amount of work a club has in a shoot that is a pretty tidy profit. Now contrast this to the ASA, they payback 70% of the entryfees to the class plus three plaques. BTW the entry is only $30 for Traditional.

As far as rule changes go, I have tendency to agree with you. A few years back I believe RU did shoot 30 or 35yds then it was changed to 25. Look at what they call the classes. The current Longbow(LB) was called MTRD for a long time. The current Traditional(TRD) has been called Hunter Recurve(HR), Traditional Hunter(TH) and I thought there was another one all in the last 5 years. I must say some of the changes are positive. Allowing you two nock between two nocks is a positive change. I guess what you missed on my tirade was they changed the rules because of the involvement in 3DI and then didn't send a team. Personally I could care less what the Europeons or the Asians or anyone else for that matter does at their shoots. I seem to do all my shooting in the good ole USA.