"it will be a trc-only event with maybe 3 or 4 other people at most"
I'm not the only one saying it, by the way. Look, you told me I could call the shots. So why am I being shot down? I put up that thread for an extremely specific reason, to meet an even more specific goal: to improve our image by going OUTSIDE of our own fold, OUT THERE, and proving to everyone else that we're better than simply sitting tightly in our own group and doing everything we can to make sure nothing else lives.
Instead, an idea made towards that goal has become simply another TRC-only event. Granted, we need an event, but we need to get our rep improved even more badly.