[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

Fast growing regions like Texas, California and Washington have all expanded their events:

Texas: 2009 - 2 events, 2013 - 3 events
California: 2009 - 4 events, 2013 - 6 events
Washington: 2009 - 1 event, 2013 - 3 events

This means that those states/regions are qualifying more teams through regionals than they were several years ago, proportional to the team growth in the state. Michigan is not, because they have been fixed at 18 slots since 2009, regardless of the team growth and increase in the number of districts in the state.

You left Minnesota off your list... 2 events in 2009, 4 events in 2013. I firmly believe we'll move to a district model sometime in the next couple of years. I doubt it'll happen for 2014 though - we need to build up the volunteer base a lot more to support the number of events a district system has. Maybe after we add one or two more regionals!