[Allison K]

It might be a little depressing to attend a district with only 12 teams competing (I say this as one of the teams attending Bedford as our 2nd district). As previously noted, Jim's whitepaper covers the mathematical reasoning. The 3rd district lottery is the best solution to filling open spaces at districts. I suppose it would be ideal if the 3rd district teams were a bit more spread out between events, however I imagine there isn't much the FiM staff could do about that as the actual number of teams in the state didn't seem to be finalized until well after initial registration, by which time most teams had already been sorted into events and rearranging them to spread out the 3rd event spaces would have been logistically challenging.