Congratulations guys
They can both kiss my arse.
Think I am the first one ever who got reclassified from ss to novice during the middle of a match, actually it might have been only my third stage. This is not strictly within the rules but the match director made an emergency call to headquarters and it was decided that this might at least mitigate some embarrassment to the organization. They had a short term meeting later to determine if the berms were tall enough.
Started to shoot marginally less awful on about stage 5 and then had 3 failures to feed on the remaining stages. Called the gun manufacturer and they stated that in rare cases severe shame can cause metal to fatigue and flake off a gun as it attempts to retreat into hiding.
Shooting sucks.