Meaning of fastlane dogs?

In any competition, there are tiers of overall quality. They entail dog qualities, experience and know how. We have dogs of every ilk. No one person has a corner on that market. We have people who value one type of quality or certain qualities over others.
We have those who are not experienced, those who are moderately experienced, and those who are just plain experienced. Any one from any of those basic groups may have a great dog. Some know how to breed, raise, school, and compete with those dogs better than others. Those SHOULD have a better, ongoing flow of those quality dogs than others.
At one time everyone was inexperienced. We gain experience if we are adept to doing so, and if we know how to make experience work for us. Baseball has college and the minor leagues. Football has college. The NBA has college. Abilities, learning abilities, and experiences mesh together to gain a higher tier of productivity and quality in one's dogs. It's ideally an ongoing process.
So, where the fuck are these LANES? Who are the people who judge these lanes and determine which lane things belong in? Not me.
We're a worldwide population of people, who all have a world wide population of dogs which compete. We compete based on our determination of how good a given dog is. Someone has over calculated HALF the time, and they lose. So much for judgement in "lanes".
If, in the so-called "old school world" (Wherever some chronological wizard might designate its exact time) there were no lanes, why are there now? Were they all so inept and unable that they didn't rate being in these lanes? Or.........were they just less worried about having to label and categorize things because they were into the overall sport and approached things with more realism than sensationalism?
How does one realistically "VS." these dogs as to the superficial categories this thread question calls for? The question can only be what possible overall outcomes there COULD be, on a level playing field as to all the levelers we've mentioned. BTW, I like the "less oppression" factor mentioned by Slim.
I think a big realism and meaningful perspective pill should be taken by us all from time to time. I've had to swallow a few in my time, too.

 

Fastlane is a term that has no real definition because most every one will define it differently. What is to me may be different than it does to the next guy. Neither of us are right or wrong, just different. The guy that turned me on to dogs did not use the term fast lane, he would describe a dog like this, "that is a dog you can ride up and down the road with'. Pretty much meaning he could compete anywhere. I am not sure if that is the definition or not. S

 

Well said. There was a picnic I was invited to some years back. I brought some ribs. I paid very little for my ribs. There was a cook off competition between two of the biggest BBQ'ers across three or four states. They grand prize was close to $30K for the best ribs. I sampled both and my cheap grocery store ribs would have ate their ribs in no time at all. I was accused of hating. I sold my ribs/recipe to the winner of the cook off. He called back and tried to buy all the other recipes like that one I had. Because although my ribs were cheap in comparison they mopped the floor with all the rib recipes he and his friends had on the money end of the cooking community. Maybe I was a slowlane guy with a fastlane rib recipe. S