Just my take on things as far as Vendors. I think it's hard to get some vendors to some shows. It's almost like there isn't enough money to go around. You start adding in multiple LED people, some sound guys, a couple of wheel reps, and a couple of go fast parts...and you get a bunch of vendors that make so little that it doesn't benefit them to come back to the next show. If all the shows were like Maggie Valley...I think it would be a different story.
At a show like SSITR, we get roughly 70-90 slingshots there and of that 50% of them usually have everything they want already installed...leaving about 45 Slingshots to spend money on on their slings...now factor in the fact that everyone feels that slingshot parts are overpriced, the desire to purchase anything is low. Especially coupled with Hotel, Gas, Food, and touristy adventures...most people just don't want to spend the money. I can't see how any vendor would want to go out of their way to travel when the possibility of losing money is very high. Like I said...MV is a completely different story.
Year in and Year out, SSITR is always a crap shoot if it will continue. Because hauling everything from event to event gets expensive. Paying employees to work on slingshots...expensive. Hotels...expensive. Feeding multiple employees...expensive. I personally am appreciative that Scott and Ivor have worked it out to even put on a show here. It's not easy. It's time consuming. And they are doing it for 5 SSR shows and I think something like 9 Sling-a-rama shows. We've been lucky to see a couple new shows come up in the last 2 years and it's awesome...shows growth... but if Vendors aren't making money...I can't imagine they will show up at those either.