Extreme Thing, the all-ages music and sports festival held annually at Desert Breeze Park, will not take place in 2015, reps for the event announced on Facebook today. Unlike a lot of dismal attempts at teen shows in this town, Extreme Thing was monumentally successful with the high school and early-20s sets, who have taken to its official Facebook page demanding answers.

“We are down some staff at this time, so we were concerned that we would not be able to adequately plan, prepare and implement such a large event,” Clark County spokesman Dan Kulin said.

Extreme Thing debuted in 2001, and by the late 2000s the bands featured rose in number and chart singles, eventually causing tickets to sell out year after year. The festival always brought in old favorites along with Alternative Press’ bands of the moment: Killswitch Engage, Bring Me the Horizon, Asking Alexandria and Falling In Reverse, among many others.

There appears to be some movement from private investors interested in the obvious cash cow—and not just on the local level. “When a festival ... that’s still posting solid numbers disappears with no real public explanation, there are a lot of parties interested and the sharks are def[initely] circling to get a piece of it,” says the owner of a local event company, who asked not to be named so as not to tip off competition for the Extreme Thing grab.

In the meantime, to make matters worse for young music fans, the Vans Warped Tour’s 2015 schedule does not list a Las Vegas date, setting up the possibility neither of the all-ages festival pillars will stage an event here next year.