I know if my committee members were not allowed participate we would lose committee members so they could participate in the raffles and such. Our banquets are by far the best in the area. We give our sponsors a sponsor only drawing with the opportunity to win any of the 4 guns and 3 prints for sponsors only. With 31 sponsors teh odds will be a little over 1 in 4 on winning. Each prize is worth the money it took to sponsor. You can't beat that. That is why our committee participates heavily on the sponsor side. On FEB. 5th we will have our banquet with 15 guns a couple of hunts and all the other auction items. We all encourage commitee participation amongst ourselves in order to boost the banquet. 8 of the 31 sponsors are committee members last year. I do not recall if any committee members won a gun. I have sponsored for 7 years attended several other chapters banquets and have won only 4 guns. 3 of the guns were won at another chapters banquet and people were still pissed off then that a single person had won 3 guns.
I do not however believe that regional directors and assistant directors should be able to participate in the games. Let the committee participate if the winning gets out of hand by one committee person than play pass the ticket.