Here is the dynamic. EP's think the advantages they have over other EP's is how they enforce the rules, their scoresheet, their out of bounds, their music policy, their everything about what happens on the mat. To them if they allow people to compete how they want they will keep coming back to their event.
Well, that is just stupid. No one goes to basketball tournaments because they don't enforce double dribbles and have 4 points. (I was about to write 9 examples from all these other sports... but just get the gist to save time).
The way it SHOULD work is that what happens on the mat itself is done the same everywhere. Same rule enforcement, same scoresheet, same out of bounds, same mat sizes with the SAME grid lines. Everything ELSE (the production value, the lights, the extra stuffed animals you can buy, all the dip-n-dots, the hotels, food, the announcer... please get my drift again to save typing 18 other things) is how a competition separates itself.