The Permanent Number Book needs to be modified to accept the new Novice
classes. Of course, that mostly means removing the Novice sections, and
starting a new page for 2003 in each section. Remember that someone who had
a number last year has first dibs on it for the next year. Each Open Class
and its Parallel Ladies and Novice equivalent should share a page, and that
there will not be a Novice and Open car with the same number. We've always
accepted a Ladies entrant with the same number as her Open class equivalent,
as long as there is an "L" after the class, I don't see that we should change
that, even though this gets past card sorters more often than I'd like to
see.
But knowing that many Novices will not use class designations, I think it's a
bad idea to allow there to be a #13 CSP and a #13 CSP-N. I'm guessing Pat
Kelly will back me up on this, and she's the one who has to deal with it when
producing results.
CHD
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