Damn dude, you just don't get it.
Let someone else run the events at different locations and supply the equipment. The AMA saves money that way
You say square dancing is more popular than R./C modeling? You obviously don't dance. The activity has the same problem modeling does, everyone wants instant gratification so new dancers are hard to come by, especially when you consider that it takes 20 weeks worth of lessons just to be at the lowest level of the activity. There are clubs folding every month due to lack of participation or nothing left in the treasury. Besides that, the AMA says they have well over 100K members. I seriously doubt there are that many dancers in the country. That being the case, how is it that a convention of and for dancers can get people to volunteer yet the AMA's 100K+ can't get enough to hold an event anywhere but Muncie? Sorry dude, I'm just not buying that. Either Muncie is lying about the number of members and it's significantly lower than they are leading you to believe or they are lying about what it takes to set up a competition so that anyone wanting to compete has to go to Muncie. Personally, I think both are true. I also think you are being the good little leader member and drinking their lies as gospel without questioning anything. Hell, I'd be all over Muncie over this one if I was you, that is unless your leader member title is too fragile to let you do so