S3 sounds awesome Josh; cant wait for it to get here.
And for the people asking for more competitors...runing 28 trucks a weekend is a lot of people. Keep in mind most, if not all of the show runners are coming from the MTM2 days of things and having anything over 12 trucks in those days was a big show no matter where you were running. My first year was NTNT S2 and we had one race that ran with 20 some competitors and we were ranting and raving on KC's forum over that. But the downside of running a show that big is it takes a LONG time to complete one event. This was before live streaming, AIM updates and all of that...if you lost round 1, 2 1/2 or maybe even 3 hours of waiting were in store for you before you got the chance to freestyle. Say you go out and do a 1 hit wonder in freestyle; you've just sat around and got a chance to drive your truck maybe 2-3 minutes in total during competition over the course of a 4 hour period?
Now on the flipside of that coin...think about your event directors. They are doing this for the love of the game and not making any money, so running 3-4 hour shows weeks in a row just isn't feasible. It takes a lot of planning to pull one of these shows off successfully without having any problems as far as hosts and getting people in and out of game quick enough. I've been there, I've done it before and towards the end of the season, it really starts to wear down on you.
So to make a long story short; if you want more trucks to be present at these events, volunteer your services and present some options to the event directors rather than saying i should just be there.