I thought originally it was decided/it was going to be a non forum style meet. 

This is rather surprising - APR is a paid sponsor of the event and AP was asked to and provided a layout for the booklet - I did think
this was going to be a non-partisan event - well at least that's what we were told - which we were all in favour of as good for the hobby. We could easily have supplied a banner as Nino mentioned.....