Some speculations on the pending new Michigan event.
Okay, so we know that Michigan must be looking for an additional District site, because they obviously don't fit right now.
That probably also means the existing event lists won't be completely straightened out until after the new event is settled.
Choice of new events depends on the mixture of overall FiM philosophy.
- Events as drivers of future growth
- Events in response to existing team density pressures
Contributing factors/clues include:
- FiM District map (see below too)
- FiM has the stated long-term goal of at least one event in each District. Short-term that probably doesn’t mean the UP with it’s scattering of teams and long travel times.
- New Events historically drive new growth. Team expansion areas would benefit most from a new event being closer by.
- Team density tends to drag events closer to existing teams like gravity (higher density in southern Michigan Districts). Events responding to existing teams and not trying to drive growth.
- New team growth depends on available population centers close enough to be affected by a new event and to draw from.
- Local availability of strong, established teams and thus volunteer sources to form the core support/experience for a local event
- District new team growth, 27 new FiM teams are located:
- (6) District 14
- (4) District 16 (has event)
- (3) District 6 (has event)
- (2) District 1
- (2) District 2
- (2) District 5 (has event)
- (2) District 10 (has 2 events)
- (1) District 7
- (1) District 8 (has event)
- (1) District 9
- (1) District 11 (has event)
- (1) District 12 (has event)
- (1) District 15
- (0) District 3
- (0) District 4
- (0) District 13 (has event)
Thoughts, contributions, rumors, wild speculations, conspiracy theories all welcome...