This comment seems quite in your faceish.
"I mean, I have no problems with you guys, but, if I had to make a decision between your meet, and a meet that I was planning, I think i'd attend the meet I was planning, right? Well, that, and the fact that my meet had about twice as many people as yours did."
Frankly to me the turn out doesn't really matter. To me it just matters that we all have fun whomever that may entail.
It's kinda like how I'd rather have one really good friend rather than a bunch that aren't.