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My question was satidfied. That was essentially the answer I was hoping for.

For those keeping track of the timeline:
2009-FiM does Pilot district system that is used by abouty 9% of the FRC population
2010-Fim keeps the format with a handful of tweaks.
2011-Rumors of MAR and meetings
2012-MAR creates their version and an additional 6% of FRC now doing districts (total about 16%)
2013-More rumors...
2014- NE FIRST and PNW joing the district... with probably around 12-16% more of the the FRC population (total for 2014 will likey be about 30-35% of FIRST now have a district system).
2015- Assume 2 -3 more areas join in for another 12-18%, and FRC will be around 50% District system.
2016- Assume another 3 Regions, and FRC will be at about 65-70% District system....

I would actually love to see Isreal create the first Mini-Region. With about 48 teams, you could do 3 24 team events with 4 alliances of 3 elims. Teams would play at 2/3 events and then all would play at the Regional Championship. Very scalable in that format up to 60 teams (3 events of 40 with full 8 alliance elim). Much beyond 60 would get a bit tricky, but realistically that would take a while to hit that number. This would be a giant departure from the current format, but I think it would work really well for isolated area of the world.