Steve could win Expert... easily. He could also enter Pro and do just fine. His tricks are WAY beyond what the Veteran Class riders are doing. Sadly, neither the contest organizers, nor the AmFlat guys have seemed to pick up on this. Tony Strickler is the real winner of the Veteran Class, because this guy belongs somewhere else. He obviously just wants to go home with a trophy every time. If I were the AmFlat organizers, I would ban him from the Veteran Class.
any guidelines or criteria?
I think you should have to submit your runs to judges prior to the beginning of the contest. They should then calculate a starting point value based on your skills, and put you in a class. This way if you hit everything you know where you should place and what kind of things you need to learn to be competitive. Quite like gymnastics does. Thats always been the problem with flat comps...its so vague.