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Originally Posted by Jaxom
I don't think it's as simple as letting teams attend events in other districts; you set up a potential issue with how points are earned towards the District Championship. Maybe those rivalries just transfer to the "super district" or "regional" championships, but that just doesn't feel right to me. I don't have a good answer -- I've thought about this, but no where near enough -- but it's one of many questions that are going to have to be addressed.
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As long as all district events play the same number of matches per team, under the same game rules, there is no reason points wouldn't be able to transfer between regions.
An original intent of district events in Michigan was to open extra spots at events (after each team had registered for their 2) to outside teams, this was not allowed. Later, when MAR was formed, both sides (FiM and MAR) wanted to allow teams to go to districts in the other region, this was not allowed either. However, as MAR events are extremely similar to FiM events (same number of matches per team), there would be no reason (from the point system and rankings perspective) to prevent an FiM or MAR team from attending the other region's event and receiving points. Even if FiM and MAR used different point values in their point systems, it would be extremely easy to apply the FiM points to a MAR event for an FiM team attending a MAR event to be properly ranked in the FiM rankings (the same goes for a MAR team attending an FiM event).