It's a moot point for me personally, because we aren't going, but here we are a year later with the same greedy, money-grubbing, "me-first-and-fuck-everyone-else" philosophy about how to run an event that's really just gotten too big for its britches anyway... What a crying shame. Corporate greed apparently has no limits even in the Sling community.
I guess I am confused on the greed part. I know most places require to rent a venue, fair grounds, open space, even a few Motorcycle rally's I've been to on private property required the event sponsor to pay for the use of the grounds. At the cost of what...$40-$50 a person, a smaller show might be about 70-80 slingshots registered? So that is $4k for the high side + vendors that pay to be there. So a show like Maggie Valley that has upwards of 400 slingshots could be near $16k. So let's just average it out...5 shows. 100 Slingshot average. So give or take $25K in registrations to cover the cost of travel and fuel, organizing the event, putting together the packages that include shirts, organizing assistance from local law enforcement, securing locations to stay, and wrangling up vendors to go to these shows with no guarantee of making money... What do you think the actual net take home is for events?
I'll say the same thing that I tell people that bitch about the price of products...if you can do it yourself and you can do it cheaper... do it.