You want matches that don’t draw shooters to continue to exist? To do what, purposefully lose money? Sounds pretty socialist to me.
Are you really this dense/out of touch with reality or trolling at this point? Hard to tell because you have not made one salient point in this entire thread.
Matches draw shooters fine. Look at Border Wars and RTC, along with other small affiliations like guardian. We get anywhere from 45-60 people at every local 1 day match and that is with people driving 3-5 hours to shoot. 2 days are drawing at least 100 people. Things are spread out and not everyone goes to every match since the cost and times are significant. Some people pick and choose what matches to shoot to earn points and some with more time and money just shoot them all.
Last NRL 2 day I shot in the middle of nowhere had 96 people registered and 90 showed up to shoot. Range is in the middle of nowhere atleast an hour away from Spokane.
Look at the PRS 2 day match in California a few months ago. AG Cup Qualifier. Had a grand total of 69 people show up. Most of those shooters were the same ones showing up to NRL 2 day a few states up weeks earlier.
So its not like PRS is beating anyone outside of their little sphere of influence. NRL and other matches have just as good turnout if not better. The difference is there is 10 times as many people in a much smaller area where the majority of PRS events are held. You can't compare that to the west.
NRL Border Wars have the same or more shooters than PRS 1 day matches, many at the same location (Until this year where they have to choose).
PRS does not put any effort at all into growing this sport or investing in the West. But they have no problem putting up roadblocks and actively working to suppress any other league for filling this void.
They are like greedy little kids who don't want to play with the toys, but put their full effort into keeping the other kids from playing.
If you are an MD you are in a shit spot. One one hand you have A league that may end up being the only one out there if they prevail; but treats you like shit. On the other you have B League that may go away due to the other league trying to kill. B League treats you better, puts on better events and supports you more as a MD, while taking less of your hard earned money. They send out Media folks to help promote your events to get some traction with social media. But if you try to go with B league, you could get frozen out of A. So you have sophies choice now because at the end of the day, you need some sort of sanctioned body to draw enough people to make putting the matches on worth it. Do you choose the shity but more predictable league or the one who does everything better but at a higher risk of getting frozen out of the big one.
The Blueprint for running matches and leagues in North Carolina or Kentucky or Ohio does not work for Running them in the West. Its apples to oranges.
If you listen to Lowlights podcasts he says this shit more than once. He spelled it out in words for those who are slow in this thread. People who live and shoot out here, Are saying the same shit.
So what the fuck are you talking about?
