Gentlemen,
I think we may be over re-acting about this one.
Let us give SCI a little slack, are they deliberately trying to sabotage the Vintagers?
Is there not room for both?
IF you like genteel English attire and fine guns of the vintage years you will go to Pintail Point.
IF you have been to Pintail and want a change you will go to the EPIC it's a simple choice. If the EPIC is a miserable failure, at least they tried and you may have been there. Maybe a vintage gun does not interest you and you only want a modern 'Best' well it to me is obvious which event you will attend.
But don't admonish someone just because they do not share your interests or views, it would be a strange place if we were all the same.
To the organisers of the EPIC, I wish you all the very best but you may have made an epic miscalculation. I hope I am wrong.