Hard to tell how many starters we might have next year. In 2004 we had about 20 or so, about half of which were from overseas. As I recall we had 1 Brit, 1 Belgian, 2 Canadians, 3 from USA and one from Brazil. Thus it is on the other end of the scale from PBP though the mix is similar. Given the increasing world wide interest in 1200km events we might have 30. Japan might send some.
You will be most welcome to join us and you might well be made a fuss of.