Seems most of the clubs that "support competition" are run by people our grandparents age. While they do probably feel they support competitive shooting sports, they are talking about things like IHMSA, NRA highpower, and whatever else they grew up with. Not that there's a darn thing wrong with any of those mind you but they are old and set in their ways and to them competing is more about slow, laid back, and precise. Anything outside of what they like or are familiar with is ignored or even shunned. I remember when me and a couple of friends started showing up to some DCM rifle matches with our AR-15's in the early 90's. We got lots of disapproving looks from all of the geezers with their Garands and M1A's. Probably didn't help that the three of us would typically finish in the top five out of about twenty-five shooters.
Maybe if you sucked more you would be treated better.