Out of curiosity, what's wrong with competitive for you to hold not playing it as a badge of honour?
Most of us have played the game for a long time (December 2011 in my case) . Some of us are ex competitive players, for example you might know Nozza.
In our collective experience the competitive scene is filled with people who are power hungry, egotistical, disloyal and infested with drama. There are exceptions to this, for example I know your 15thYR has lasted a long time. But overwhelmingly this is not the case.
Now we are simply a casual regiment that runs events like they used to be back in the old days, lots of lines and limited specialists with no FiC. Stable, and drama free.