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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi
Bar, you're asking for too much too soon. This type of detail doesn't really need to be answered right now. Districts won't just pop up all over in one or even two seasons. When the issue does become more relevant, I'm sure Frank will provide the answers.
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One of the things I'm interested to see is how the transition will happen. My biggest concern is how they will deal with teams in areas where districts don't make sense, in the interim before they have a standardized model with cross-travel and a way to incorporate teams that don't fit into district regions. For example, PNW and NE are going to districts for 2014, and the Ontario region is likely to change to districts at some point as well. Depending on how the district borders are defined, this could leave teams in Montreal, BC, Alberta and other parts of Canada with at most one "local" event. As more regions move to districts, more pockets will appear where teams exist, but aren't populous enough for their own region, but don't fit well into neighboring regions.
I'm sure some of the people that emailed Frank asked about this, and I'm sure FIRST has a plan for how to accommodate, but I'm curious to see what that plan is. I'm guessing a lot more of these details will emerge after the 2014 season, which they have had time to evaluate the PNW and NE district pilots and make some decisions on a standardized district model.