Moderately Disappointing

This evening, I attended the Area 81 fall contest.  This area is one of the struggling areas in the area.  Although attendance was normal for an Area contest, there was no Humorous Speech contest, and only two Evaluators for the Evaluation contest.  I know that my wife's old club, PPD is one of the clubs belonging to this Area, and hasn't been meeting for the last year.  Not sure of the other Area 81 clubs.