Wow! This would have been great to attend. Congratulations to your group for bringing this together!!!!

It is going to take some strong leadership and creative thinking within the pattern community, to re-introduce or re-brand itself to the modeling world as mainstream and fun, rather than a fringe part of the sport. Although it goes against many other trends in the hobby (like crazy 3d sport flying), i think "retro events" is part of the solution for pattern. Im not sure how retro events would draw new pilots, but i think they do a lot to bring back and keep the current pilots excited and looking forward to the next event. Thats a start.

Great job,
Jim W.