The key is to make it fun again.

You go to a big money bracket race it's like going to a business convention...so much money is involved, the semi pro and professional bracket guys push any kind of regular local racers right out of the picture. You walk around, and no one is having fun...it's like work.

Cut back the purse, cut back the entry. Get rid of the round money for buy backs...or, better yet, do what they do at the Beaver, run a consolation race separately. The sharks won't like it, but the masses will, and will encourage participation by more folks.

Promote the local racers in the papers, run a program that doesn't run until the wee hours of the morning, simplify it. I'm one of those who still believe that bracket racing can draw some, I mean some, spectators.

Make the whole experience fun for everyone. That's what has gone away, and that is what can make up for the loss of the yuppie racers.