I can understand where you are coming from Mark, I really can. Having attended a reasonable number of sanctioned events over the last 2 years, in my experience, it hasn't impacted greatly on my practice rounds and first qualifier however I quite readily admit I am A not a great driver thus it doesn't have a huge impact on my qualifying result and B my practice/qualifiers seem to be quite reasonably marshalled as I am typically in the lower ranked drives where I could see that in the higher ranked drivers, attending more sanctioned events per year the extra day off makes quite the difference. (I atttend typically 3 to 4 sanctioned events a year, where the higher ranked guys do almost all of them).

Its gonna be a tough call either way and you will never please everyone (your always gonna have people bitching and moaning), to be entirely honest, I am not sure going to 3 day events or staying at 4 day events is going to make a measurable difference to attendance. From when I started back in 2008, attendance numbers have only grown typically.
Generally, we need the 1/8 IC Offroad community to bemore considerate of each other to aleviate some ofthe marshalling issues and things would be much better. We have to cater for everyone, and not favour anyone. Glad I am not on the committee for IC Offroad, maybe I am just too diplomatic for it. Maybe it can be at the clubs discretion but they need to announce it in a suitable time frame prior to close of nominations.

I do agree that having people rocking up and nominating at the meet or nominating late is just not on, it makes life so much harder for the organisers of the meet and generally jerks everyone else around. AARCMCC says to close nominations 4 weeks prior and late entry is at the clubs discretion. I would like to see more clubs shutting it of 4 weeks prior at the latest, if you can't nominate 4 weeks earlier, then tough biscut, people have to be a bit more organised.