USTRC's CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM - HOW FAIR IS IT?

What were the main reasons behind the USTRC’s change to the TRIAD system? If I recall right, the change was supposed to create more space for low number team ropers, so they weren’t all lumped together in one number classification. They said there wasn’t enough room to classify them correctly. So they moved almost everyone two numbers. Then, most all of the ropers that supported them, got their numbers lowered, anyway. What is up with that?
Everyone says that the classification system is fair and even, everywhere. From state to state, all number 4's are supposed to be of equal ability. Well, I have roped enough, and been around enough, to know that is not true! Anyone who doesn’t believe that, needs to compare a # 4 in Texas, to a # 4 in Ohio, or anywhere else for that matter. There is no comparision!!!!!
I think, what they needed to say, was that there wasn’t enough room in Texas. In almost every other state, there is plenty of room. In most states, most of the ropers are numbered from best to worst, starting with the highest number possible, with no numbers skipped. This means that a roper classified as a #4 in Texas, might possibly be a #6 in some other state. Sometimes, there might need to be a few numbers skipped, between ropers, say from a #6 to a #4, with NO #5's in that state, but that doesn’t happen. If you were to see that happen, then you might could say that all ropers are numbered equally, all over the US. A #6 is a #6, anywhere, and a #4, is a #4.
Another thought, whatever happened to the idea, that as a roper improved they would move up in classification, and have to rope in higher numbered ropings? As it works now, most of them can wine a little bit about their raised number, and if they go to all USTRC’s ropings, they can get their number lowered back to where it was!!!!!
I don’t really think it is so much about your level of roping ability, as it is about how many times you are willing to enter and pay the $100 stock charge.
Just one roper’s opinion!