Well whom so ever does it, it is timely with an earlier than usual announcement on date and venue, to get the date into the almanac listings, published and out there. That is the thrust of it. For a long time many Microcar Rallies have not been mentioned in these listings. These listings which people use to organise their years eventing from mid November onward. So for all those folks the Microcar events do not exist. Once they have booked a weekend up, they are going to be reluctant to loose good favour elsewhere and change venues to a late coming date. I do not make the rules up.
Clearly the principle benefit is to the ground organiser, so its in his interest to ensure it gets done, therefore netting him best response for his year's work. The only reason that can be an unpopular policy is because it has not been done. Reminds me of being Print Production Manager again. The best ones were always unpopular. In my experience 'You first, John' does not work as well as positive feedback. Still, its not up to me, so I will not be heckling folk anymore about it.
