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Flippy Flopper
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This issue as it relates specifically to World's makes sense if you look at where they have moved the event.
A few years ago I remember this same issue being addressed and somebody (I think it was Graham) conceded that World's was more of a big party for the membership than it was a competitive event. It was a big get-together with a big flymart and party atmosphere, especially the combined Pro/Am World's. The point that was being conceded was that they couldn't do something like limit registration since there was no support from the membership to cancel the party.
While this is true - the family reunion aspect - the reason pro and am were split were almost all logistically based. 2012 (last pro am combined) was a bit of cluster and the PDGA said yeah, no more of this.