This horse died a long time ago and now we are just standing over the ground where it decomposed smacking it with sticks.
The USPSA classification system is nothing more than "Feel good legislation". It allows mediocre performers to feel like they have accomplished something in order to keep the drive for membership numbers up in the sport. I don't believe that mediocre performance should be rewarded and winning 1st B at the nationals is absolutly mediocre, unless you only have one arm.
How in the hell is it fair for some weekend B class shooter who might dry-fire a couple of hours a week to get to the prize table prior to the 10th place GM who puts in several hours a day after and before they go to their regular job to get where they are?
You're right!! get rid of the classification system and only classify for a % of the top shooter in your chosen division/divisions only for the purpose of monitoring the progress of hard work.
I keep hearing/reading this stuff about how it's the D,C,B etc. shooters that make up this sport as if they should be bowed to. Well, the GM's are the ones that set the phucking bar for those of us with the drive to attempt to achieve that GM status.
If I came in 1st B and came in 53rd overall and I got to go to the prize table before the GM that placed 10 overall in the field that they had at the Nationals it would make me sick.
Rewards in life are set by the accomplishments we make through how hard we work not by what class we chose to maintain.
OH!! By the way. I'm a B class shooter striving for my GM.