As long as there are different boats, designs, sails etc racing some will want to compare the results and the maunufacurers of those items are going to want to use it to help boost future sales. Having it be a secret only stirs up the contoversy as the information is out there anyway, and having people try and pull it from photos and hearsay only makes for erroneous reports.

The disturbing factor in listening to most peoples interpretation of results is that they only seem to look at the top finishes. The top sailors are going to win no matter the sail or platform. A truer evaluation of competing designs would be to look at the mid pack guys. When someone who always scored mid to lower pack gets on a new platform and now starts consistently placing 3rd and 4th, you now have a much better measuring stick as to whether 1 design may be an improvement over another.

Matt