My point was more of that the schedule is heavy in the spring and empty once we get past mid-June. If you only want local people to show up, a bunch of closely-spaced meets is fine. But if you want people to travel (and many of the frequent attendees are a good distance from the proposed locations here), a bunch of closely-spaced meets start cannibalizing each other. People can host whenever they want to host (if I wanted to dictate the date, I would host myself), but the big thing right now is "big turnout" and you're not gonna get that with a meet every other week.
There's a reason fall meets often draw well: there's a lack of meet activity in the fall because it's all concentrated in spring.
I'm guessing that the reason so many meets take place in the spring is because many of us have an urge (and want a reason) to take a road trip after the dead of winter and where many of us might suffer from a bit of withdrawal (or a sense of "cabin fever") from taking road trips.
For the most part, Josh, what you're saying makes sense. I'm not sure exactly what you mean, though, when you say that "big turnout" is the big thing right now. Maybe that comment is piggybacking off of what some of us were discussing in the thread regarding the Cincinnati meet and reasons why some of us like to create polls to get a majority vote on things like the date. You might be right though. For my city meets, I guess I would like to give as many people the opportunity to attend as possible. But I would be just as happy hosting a gathering that only, say, less than five people show up for. But I think in general, more people have an interest in going to road meets nowadays than in years past.
There does seem to be more competition nowadays for announcing road meets. It's really first come, first serve. For a few months now (I think since I created my poll which helped me determine the location of my 2020 city meet), I've been saying that I'm aiming to host my meet in April, May, or June. The only 2020 meet that was officially announced prior to mine was Gene's San Antonio meet for May 9 (announced on Facebook only). I admit that I find it a bit amusing that, shortly after I made the announcement about my Outer Banks meet in the spring, multiple other meets were announced for the spring as well. Healthy competition? Definitely. Cannibalism? Possibly. The good thing is that they are at least spaced out a bit in the spring... no back-to-back weekend pattern. Unfortunately for you, Josh, none of these meets are super close to where you live... which is why I can imagine you might be a bit frustrated.
I do agree that it would be nice to spread the meets out across the year and not have so many concentrated in the spring. Does this mean I might choose fall for my 2021 meet? Probably not, but I would absolutely consider it if I see that a lot of spring meets for 2021 have already been announced by the time I announce mine.
I wonder why July, in particular, seems to be a month when no one wants to host, or attend, a meet. (The one exception I can recall was Cody Goodman's Walker County AL meet which took place in July 2015.)
