Austin Hair wasn't a Tige rider. Maybe the other manufactures told their guys not to compete. Or maybe since it's not a points event for a title they figured it wasn't worth the risk. I didn't see many other teams pro's even entered like last year.
judging by the people who submitted a video, Harley, Dowdy, Rusty, and phil all should have been there. I'm not sure if they all actually ended up going though
I wonder if Tige' just reduced the prize money which would eliminate any of those big names from wanting to attend. The entire team would all ready be there so it would work out. Who knows.
Someone posted somewhere else on here that there was only 1 non Tige team rider that even entered. So none of the big names listed above even showed. Not sure why. I don't really follow the pro events much though.