Looking at the other championships, ours seems to fit OK. I don't know if dividing it would help (probably not), but if there were several types of cat championships, would that actually drive attendance up? What I mean is, if we had 1-up, 2-up sloop and 2-up spin, that might help with the "my rating sucks" issue, but would it really help attendance?
I say, it isn't broken, it's just not well supported for a variety of reasons that changing the template probably isn't going to fix.
Besides, I haven't actually seen any ideas here on how to improve the event itself, just a bunch of non-constructive reasons people don't want to go.
Mike