@lash
I've often thought.....have a match were the stages are set up. Stage descriptions are stapled nearby. And the shooters shoot the stages at their leisure and repeat them even if they wish (given they aren't slowing down others' participation). Kinda like walking a round a golf. Shooters have timers on their phones already to manage time themselves.
No RO's. No score cards handed out or required. The shooters pay a entry fee that goes to providing a nice meal at the very end of the day (Like supply the nicest meal $25-$35 can buy). They come to hang out, shoot, try out their skill, socialize.
If they want to keep score amongst themselves....fine. But you the MD doesn't have to manage it or deliberate it. You have a start time in the morning and end time mid to later afternoon. When its all said and done....the shooters get a nice meal, get to hang out and enjoy or they can leave and go home after shooting right away if that ain't their cup of tea. Thank you for the $25 range fee....see ya next time.
New shooters don't have to worry about how they will place (because their is no scoreboard). Experienced shooters can squad up and play a personal skins match. Or one can shoot it completely solo logging their own progress as they see fit. There would be a safety brief and code of conduct speach/sheet at the onset and the off they go.
The MD can focus on other things like making cool/interesting stages (which I think is what matches desperately need) and not focus on how the fuck one's gonna get match booklets made or unfucking scoring tablets or logging into practicscore or rounding up RO's or keeping track of shooters gear to be in class compliance. It just frees up massive bandwidth for other shit.
I've even thought MD's could hold an event where each shooter voluntarily brings their own single stage design and the steel for it. Kinda get the shooters involved tangentially.....potentially introduce new targetry the MD doesn't have.
