ETA: Even M class in uspsa in doable for a lot of people, and it’s way, way harder to get than in IDPA.
I’m more interested in match finishes than class rankings. I don’t care so much what you accomplished by showing up to enough classifiers and swinging for the fences as I am how you perform against your peers, on demand, over an entire weekend of shooting.
When I was shooting sporting clays a lot - you had guys that were "Masters" or "AA" ranked etc but they got all of their punches to move up in a class at the same exact courses, usually local.
Get them off their home course and away from presentations they've seen 2000 times and they'd get their arse handed to them.
Show me a guy who made AA or Master class by hitting every tournament he could in his state and the 5 surrounding - that's a guy whose classification was a bit more legitimate - IMO
