"The BOD at that time was NOT in favor of that happening and did not support the ideas of any competing events during our own. "

And you lose probably 100 plus silver strike attendees at the CCGTCC because of the scheduling of the FQ strike tournament a week earlier. It is obvious that the strikers chose the FQ tourney over the CCGTCC. You can call it what you like but I call it dumb. Just my opinion though.