Rubbish. It’s because the numbers in classes that Auntie Doris watches have significantly dropped over the years. Those that would have taken a whole morning (and sometimes in to the afternoon) or evening are lucky to have 30 competitors. Rather than let the Guild die a slow death, they are trying new classes. Some work, some don’t. The Battle of the Bands sounded great, but just didn’t get the audience numbers to recover the costs of staging it.