[jblay]

I think that if the district model was to be adopted in southern NY, which I would love to see happen, the obvious place to house the championship is the Javit's Center which already houses the NYC regional which has hosted north of 60 teams before. The venue is massive and could accommodate everything that goes with a southern NY championship.

I sent an email about a month ago to some people in NY FIRST about the possibility of this very thing happening. The issue they said existed was that there are not enough off-season events and big teams with the ability to host these events. I am personally trying to get our team to host an off-season event next year as well as trying to get in contact with other teams in our area to improve this.

NYC has so many teams that struggle from budgetary issues and can barely afford to just attend the NYC regional. So many teams would benefit from what the district model gives them and I really want it to happen. There are also the obvious selfish reasons of more matches for less money for 694.

Whatever needs to be done to bring the district model to the NYC area I am willing to explore. I hope other mentors will do the same, but I am on board.