The CPPS is NOT threatening the Millennium in any way whatsoever nor should it do. I'm certainly not going to downgrade the CPPS by suggesting it's a stepping stone event series toward the Millennium - we absolutely/categorically need the CPPS and the Millennium.
What we do need are more domestic events run in the UK to the CPPS standard.
Ainsley makes mention of Brickett Wood and Nick's Skirmish site.
Whilst on paper, they are altenate events but the thing that puts the CPPS apart from those two sites/leagues is the investment made into the site itself. Not everyone can afford to invest big money in their sites but you can at least start walking in that direction.
I haven't been to Nick's site at Nottingham since I was up there coaching Nexus in 2003-6, and from memory - I'm pretty sure Nick had a lot of aspects in place to provide events that would approach the standard of the CPPS but I'm not altogether sure of what the Notts' site looks like now or indeed the standards adhered to in the events he promotes.
Knowing Nick, he won't be short-changing anyone.
As for Brickett Wood?
I was up there a few years back and from what I can remember, if it wants to see itself as a site to hold events of the same calibre of the CPPS, then there's an awful lot of work to be done in that area.
I might be talking out of my ass here but the last time I was there, they needed a better playing surface on their fields and so if these have been replaced, then my apologies.
The problem is I suppose, the CPPS has set the bar really high for promoting events in the UK and I'm damned sure the sort of investments committed to by Ainsley on his site aren't being made elsewhere.
Ainsley has produced a business model that is hardly unique and best summarised by stating, 'Improve and they will come'.
And were anyone to doubt that business model's mantra, get your ass down to the CPPS and see for yourself and learn something.
Money will always be the defining mechanism that separates the top from the 'not-so-top' but let's not fool ourselves here, money don't come cheap these days but I know this much .... yes, you can do [some] business if you're the only game in town but if you wanna attract more customers and from further afield then you dip your hand in your pocket - failing that, if there's a gap in the marketplace in your catchment area and beyond, if you don't address it, others will.