I appreciate hearing your feedback. One thing I want to mention to everyone is that while most participants enjoy their experience playing in an OFCC, the experience running/organizing the event can sometimes be very different. To be blunt, being a Head of Gaming or member of the support staff can be a thankless endeavor at times. There hasn't been a year since the first OFCC where someone didn't complain about army composition, scenarios, painting rubric, etc. We have had 10 different organizers over the last 20 years for the 40k teams event and most of them only headed up the event once; a few of them twice. BigTal was the HoG 3 times and our recently retired senator Evil_Bryan is currently the only person to head the event 4 times; 3 of those years in 2017, 2018, and 2019. And even he was reluctant to do it again in 2023, I think mostly due to changes in the overall 40k meta, plus the fact that GW had the new edition launching 2 months prior to the event. Along with the struggle to find good organizers, the senate also has to contend with negative feedback from potential players and past participants. I had a long talk with our HoGs for the 40k Doubles event in 2023 and they told me that they visited just about every Discord server in the PacNW to promote their event. A lot of the responses were basically "I've never heard of that event, so it's probably not good" or "I went to that event X years ago and had a terrible time, so OFCC is crap!" I was shocked to hear that, but it aligns with the strong emotions and attitudes (both good and bad) that people have shown regarding OFCC.
In closing, hopefully Ordo can get to the point where we have good solid event organizers and positive overall vibes from the local and regional communities about running an OFCC-type event again. Maybe even in time for 2025? 😎