Were some age groups 'penalized' due to the number of people that chose to wear wetsuits. Kona slot allocation was only based on ~950 starters according to the posted sheet. I heard someone comment that some of the larger male age groups seemed to be a slot or more shorter than what they were used to. For example, If an age group had 500 starters, but only 100 chose to not wear wetsuits, that would have reduced the number of slots for that age group more so than if an age group had 300 starters and 100 chose to not wear wetsuits.
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Or did this help even things out for smaller age groups and remove all those that really had no impact on the kona qualification process?
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Or did this help even things out for smaller age groups and remove all those that really had no impact on the kona qualification process?