Co-ordinated calendar

[Furface]

Two stories (which, in various forms, will be, familiar to all of you).
1) Some years ago, I organised a "county" tournament specifically aimed at those who had never shot in a tournament before. I set a date that was convenient to me and the centre at which the thing was held. I was criticised at County level for clashing with another tournament 50 miles away.
2) Regional meeting - set dates for future meetings. Every date had something else clashing with it.
Has the time come for a national co-ordinated calendar? For tournaments, set the national dates, then the FITA stars, then Regional, then County, then RS. Rules on acceptable clashes to be determined. Similarly for meetings: set GNAS Board, Operations committee 3 weeks before that, regional 3 weeks before that, county 3 weeks before that. All on Saturdays. Plenty of space left for conferences, coaching courses, etc etc. And no clashes.
The chief problem, as I see it, is with members being unwilling to take "fixtures" from a central source (and wanting to stick to "we always shoot on the 1st Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox").
Any thoughts?

[Thunk]

Sounds like a good idea...more to the point, it sounds like common sense. In fact, it sounds too much like common sense to be adopted!

Certainly it would work on a regional basis - and those clubs who 'always shoot on the 1st Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox" would probably find themselves missing their visitors as a result.