I just want to say that deep staging is when you have deep on you windshield and they allow you time to go deep. Letting the prestage light go out is really not deep staging. The prestage bulb is there to tell you are getting close to turning the stage light on. I will agree that letting the top bulb go out you will get a better rt. But I believe you can have courtesy staging and should be able to let the top bulb go out and still race. Why call it a pro tree, if you have courtesy staging rules. You should call it the Blue Lite Stage Tree. It is not a pro tree if you have courtesy staging. It really don't matter to me if the opponent goes deep and I haven't prestaged. My time don't start until I lite the prestage lite and I have plenty of time to do what I want. You have staging battles now with Blue Lite Stage Tree, where people don't want to be first and make the other guy move first and then they lite both bulbs. I can race either way. I prefer no courtesy staging, and the timer doesn't start until the second racer prestages. Let have some fun on the starting line.