Pointless? that's really subjective.... for example the other big one is the one in PA, at the track. Never been in that one because almost all the time rains that weekend, no matter if its winter or the summer like event... drive 2 hours to get socking wet, same with whatever you could buy, that i would call pointless... but at md the even at least is at closed doors, cold as hell in the 1st 2 hours but at least you wont be socking wet
The other factor is... "How the event will be this year"... every year is different, so is a big mistery.