Have you ever considers running a match or two, or being a stat officer and handling this?
The one time I served as a formal MD, the venue had promised I'd have a full calendar year to improve attendance or they would reallocate the resources elsewhere. After 9 months, I had only increased the average monthly participation by 300% so they posted notices (without even telling me first) that the monthly matches had been cancelled. If this is the uncertainty I'm gonna face after working hard to restore participation to a match, no thanks! (I always turned in scores to the sanctioning body within 48 hours of event completion.)
I'm still an enthusiastic coach, teacher, and evangelist for the shooting sports, but I've taken to organizing informal events and skipping the approval of sanctioning bodies. Official targets are cheap and most ranges don't even notice if a group goes in and has an informal match if they otherwise have permission to shoot there - and there is not much demand for facility use on weekdays. One can even host a match at Talladega for $35 a head and everyone can stay and shoot as long as they like that day. (Their unsanctioned matches are $50 a head.)
But other than NRA sanctioning, most of the peeps who participate in my informal matches have no real motive to travel various distances and pay higher match fees to show up and shoot very many formal matches. Their main motive is to earn classifications to recognize the acquisition of new skills. No one seems to mind a 6-8 week delay in the NRA posting the results (competitor activity) and maybe a couple weeks longer updating earned classifications.
It is very disappointing to plan time off of work, travel, equipment prep, etc. and then find out a match was not sanctioned.
MDs owe it to their shooters to accurately describe the sanctioning status of a match and to turn in scores from sanctioned matches within the window prescribed by NRA. We've found MSM to be exemplary in this regard. (I have no problem with MSM occasionally cancelling matches or turning 1000 yard events into 600 yard events due to facility issues beyond their control. Communication with shooters is excellent and timely.)
Keep in mind that high power and benchrest events are not just competing with other events of the same type. They are also competing with PRS, all the other shooting sports, and everything else shooters might be doing that weekend. Many of the other shooting sports have figured out how to get results posted online the same day and how to reliably get results to the sanctioning body in 1-7 days. I also expect that action pistol events falsly claiming IDPA or USPSA status would pretty quickly be facing legal action - at very least a cease and desist order.