[Anupam Goli]

Everyone is getting excited about districts since they offer so many advantages to the current system, but don't realize why the district model works. I'd love to be able to compete twice or more without having to travel 400 miles and budget $5000 per competition, but there are very few places where having districts is feasible. Districts would work in the North East, since there is a high team population density, but as soon as you go to places like the southeast US, things get tricky. If >85% of teams are in one city and there's less than 50 teams in that city, districts aren't right for your state yet, and may not be until the region populates more. It's nice to be able to go to multiple competitions for the same registration price, and only pay $1000 for each additional district event, but unless one city or area has two regionals that are within a 50 mile radius of each other, then districts are far in your future. Try doing what Toronto does first, by having two regionals in the city that are 3 weeks apart.