Trust me. There was no malice involved. We changed it from "invitational" because it isn't. It is open to Anyone that would like to come.
"Your" fall gathering didn't even cross my mind when we decided it was time again to invite our customers out for a weekend of off-roading.
We can call it the "ACC Fall, not the gathering, but you can come hang out with us if you want"
Oh and we have plenty of weapons so no need to bring your own.
Micheal I never thought there was any malice intended.
It does however surprise me that you never thought of "Our" Fall Gathering when you renamed your event considering that your company has been a sponsor of our event in the past and since we sent down Tshirts, stickers and other Fall Gathering apparel to your shop last Fall as a thank you.
I acknowledge that the probability of us sharing many of the same participants are not high with our events being a thousand plus miles from each other but that's not really the issue.
I hope that you as a business owner can understand my protective nature about our club's event.
It's an event that myself, my board of directors and countless volunteers before us have worked hard to establish as a marquee Toyota enthusiast's event over it's ten plus years history.
When I'm at different events in different regions I have a number of people state that they would love to make our Fall Gathering some year so it's become more than just a North East thing.
It's made it's way into Toyota trails a number of times and just recently we had Offroad Adventure Magazine profiling our event.
We can all appreciate an owner of a business that shows it's support to it's customers and can understand the reasoning of changing your event's name.
I hope that an understanding comes from this conversation and that in the future you may reconsider your event's name.
Oh and don't pay any attention to LCCruiser, he's senile.
