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Re: All District FIRST?
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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery View Post
The most flagrant example would be the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, which lacks the team density for its own district and is at least 3 hours from the nearest district and about 5 from the next closest. The district model is not the best solution for 100% of teams, but it does help the majority of teams compete more at less expense.
Its about 5 hours from Houghton to Traverse city, its about 7 hours to Flint... a bit more than you think for the western UP... For reference Duluth is 4 hours away.

Michigan has a weird tendency to be divided in half... west vs east. There are way more eastern teams than west so many eastern teams travel to the west side of the state. The west side teams tend to stay on the west coast. It really wouldn't be much different in Florida.

Districts are going to be horrendous for international teams any way you slice it...
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