Hi,
On behalf the SAU VIC committe we made several attempts to cross promote this event. It was posted in our recent newsletter, it was mentioned at two of our recent meetings, it was covered in our vic general events. The wekeend before was our drift for dummies training day @ deca so this may have impacted attendance a little, as a few were not keen on travelling to shepparton, the next weekend after (I was in this category).
I also saw the contact between your self and the Commitee and replied to some of them also. I also tried to raise interest by asking questions coming up to the event in the main thread (which you saw). We (I) even went to the effort to try and ascertain number of attendances but my questions went un-answered. I even spoke to Libby (as no one else replied to my posts) to try and found out (but later realised she wasn't involved). I feel more interest could have been sparked by posting up event plans for the DECA events, numbers of cars officially booked in and other information indicating numbers. By looking at the main thread as an on-looker it looked like there wasn't much interest (lack of posting) so to most it appeared not many were going. Had someone posted up xyz amount of cars are confirmed, here is what we are doing at deca then it could have helped.
I apologise on SAU's behalf for what you may feel we have done wrong, but I think as a club we did nothing wrong and promoted it quiet well and took reasonable efforts to spread the word.