I got in touch with Vic and this is what he said:
About the rally, we are going to hold it later in the year at a different field. Two reasons, our field is a little messed up at the moment, and the club members are worn out. Understandably they just want to fly for a while and not have any looming projects.
Reason 2, pilot entry has been waning the last few years, we had less than 10 pilots last year and it just didn't work all that great for the effort put into it. I'm hoping by changing up the time a little we might get some of the regional pylon guys who aren't worried about tearing up a NATS plane. We are looking at the September time frame.
I will still be running it though.