Thankfully, this is an issue that won't arise here in Australia. There are no fast/small gun clubs here, just big-gun. All of our local clubs are comprised of members of the Oz-wide AusBG, and although individual clubs are geographically very dispersed, we all use the same ruleset. So, it's up to you if you wish to count the AusBG as a single club, or count the individual clubs....just remember, there are lies, damned lies and statistics.
I think it is settled then, that we, as part of RC NAVAL COMBAT are part of a larger family of people who love to(or love the idea of) blowing someone elses pride and joy to pieces. am i right, or am i right? Darren, a great man once told me(and this might help your arguement, or ruin it, of course) That statistics never lie, but liars use statistics.
Here is the original results for the census I conducted in 2006. Because the IRCWCC, MWC, and AusBG are centrally organized national clubs with smaller chapters, I contacted the club officers for the national organizations for the data. I contacted the US Big Gun clubs and the Queens Own directly, and I think I used the old Battlestations website data. I'm sure I missed some data as it was very informal and I didn't have access to a good club list like the Club Finder on this very excellent website. By now I know the numbers have changed. I know for a fact that one member of the WWCC has died and one has gone inactive (busy with marriage and new house), while we've gained two new father-son combos (only the sons have boats at the moment). I think it would be a great idea to do another census, but I'm taking on too many projects right now. It would be very interesting to see an age comparison, a gender comparison (ha! I think we can guess the result there), number of ships built vs purchased used, size of current fleet, battles per year, number of sinks per year, average combatants at an event, favorite ship, weirdest ship, etc. http://www.microrccenter.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=36249
