I think that a lot of IDPA's hilarity comes from the sport's origins, which was an attempt to create a game with no gaming. Which, of course, is ridiculous because gamers gonna game games. This leads to a weird kind of cognitive dissonance as the leadership tries to embrace the serious competitors, who are gamers by definition, while still staying true to its founding mission of being a Game With No Gaming. This is evident in the recent rulebook gyrations.
Not that USPSA doesn't have its own ridiculousness, like B class nobodies wearing jerseys or the airgunning conga line before every stage. The difference is that the USPSA organization has no pretensions about what it is and isn't.
I don't hate IDPA by any means. I just quit shooting it because it's less fun to me than USPSA, and I don't want to keep track of rulebook changes that fundamentally change the way I shoot a stage. I would like IDPA a lot more if it would quit trying so hard to be Not IPSC, and just be an action shooting sport that average gun people can shoot with gear they already own.
E: I'm not going to say I've totally stopped making fun of IDPA, but I've cut down on it. Mostly because it's like making Family Guy references; it's just cheap, easy laughs.
In Tulsa. USSA and Oil Cap both have monthly matches.
