Biggest problem.......a lot of guys are racing qualifiers, regionals and what not, and some of those same riders wont be out to support the battle races. And these are the die hard LL qualifier guys.
I could go through and eliminate numerous classes, and I do not think it will affect your over all entry total too much. Many of these riders will simply find a different class to run. I honestly think that is a huge issue these days, number of classes.
I have always supported what Chris said, if you have ever had a pro license, you can not run the Vet classes at Loretta Lynns. Only a Vet pro class. It is a Amateur championship, and at the end of the day they are not Amateurs.
At the end of the season I am going to do up a list of the classes and see how close I am to the list the JO comes up with. But give OMA a year to work out some bugs. At least I see a few of these tracks putting out an effort. AMS used to be decent most of the time......two times there this year, not so good. Not sure what is going on, I am not too excited to rush back. DMC, usually does a decent job with track, but cancelled on a sunny day because of a chance of rain (I think this is a BS excuse, and there are more under lying reasons). Guys that went to Treaty City, said it was Treaty Shity, and that the jumps they built were horrible, and someone needs to show them how to build jumps and prep a track. Dirt Country, I like the place, and the dirt is good these days, but wish they would add some jumps back into the track. It is becoming a wide open flat track these days.
So what are our options? Places like Crow Canyon, Malvern, Chilitown, and BC......at least you see they are making a serious effort to change the look of the races you go too. And are trying to prep the tracks to their fullest, so that its not a hard pack dust bowl, nor are you riding in 10 inches of muck on a sunny day when it hasn't rained in two weeks.
It (OMA) is only going to work if people support these series. They are going a little extra on the BfO races, so these are the ones that people should have on their calendars.