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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
You'd make all of Canada a single region? That's going to force some teams to travel far in order to get their two district-level competitions. The distance and density factors are extremely important inputs to a district model.
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If you wanted to make Canada East and Canada West, that sounds reasonable. The district system is weird in the way that while I think it can easily create more teams by having more events and more exposure, you need high team density to do it, or willingness to travel.
This is really terrible math-logic concept of approaching the district model, but in the last year FiM ran regionals, they had 3 regionals. By my logical reasoning, Texas and California can easily transition from regionals to districts.
However, between DC, VA, and MD, there were 3 regionals. This means that these areas would combine into the already delineated "Capital Region" where instead of a State Championship, you have a "regional" functioning like an existing state championship.
So Canada supports 1 super-regional=2 regionals. Therefore, it would need to be categorized with another existing regional to switch over to the district system.
Conclusion: Canada doesn't have the team density to go to a msc-style qualification yet, unless they tag in with Lake Superior or another Northern Regional.
What I'm trying to say is this: the district/state system ensures that the best teams move on, and only move on once (or twice with an RASA/EIA/RCA), it's just not feasible.
The system is fractured, and know one knows the answers. I'm confident that if they did, FIRST would have implemented them by now.