i never kept up with any of the BS. I never understood it though. you have a few private entities work together to put on, what i feel was, an excellent event w/o some of the overhead/hassles of a club environment and people will still find shit to complain about. I guess a lot of it was personal stuff? who knows.
Turnout always seemed to be decent, costs werent prohibitive (from a visitor standpoint) and they did it all while maintaining some level of order and semblance to the events of years past.
We've always gone to MAR, good people, food and trails. Conclave filled the hole for a few years but is also half the distance for me. Now MAR is back but even farther south. That and i really like the Cove.
Oh well, hopefully it'll return in the future in some form.