What caught my eye is the small number of points for an automatic upgrade. 40 makes you a 2 no matter what, before it was 60. I think there were a bunch of guys floating about 35-45 points, so making it 40 points is going to make "staying a 3" harder.

Since I'm not a 2 I never paid attention to their auto upgrade points but it seems that must have been reduced too.

Also you get points for small fields, which is good. The stage race points got defined better. Basically any Cat 3 that does well (around here) at, say, Fitchburg, will probably be a 2 by the end of the summer, based on the 40 point rule.

Nothing on how Masters races are treated. Interesting.

I got zero points right now.

cdr