Gary Glitter wrote:
Remember, if you don't get in, you get automatic entry the next year, so you're not really "denying" anybody a chance. It's just deferred for one year.
There is no automatic entry. You need to run another qualifier under whatever the cutoff is for the next year.
I had always thought they should just age grade all the times and find the cutoff score. However, that would result in a heavily male field as the quality of the women's field is never as deep as the men's.