Equibrand Products Group L.P.

So was, did you, were you starting to find as team roping was evolving that there was maybe some categories that needed tightened up as, as, uh, basically team roping evolved?

Well, you know, all of that, that was all done during the Equibrand era when Gary built the algorithms on all that.

And he, when Triad come into being, they added two numbers to everything, but they only added one at the top of the NFR guys.

So the top on, they added a little bit more for headers than they had before, but they only added one at the top up there to 10.

Because there was nothing there before and it operated in a vacuum, we kind of had a grace period there on the people not winning.

In fact, I got out of there at the 10-year mark before that really started showing up.

The Equibrand group, when they owned USTRC, they had to deal with that, and that's why they built the algorithms and the stat-driven deal.

The most important part of the whole thing to me is, was the fact that state lines were tore down.