[EricH]

Originally Posted by JackS

If you use the number of regionals converted metric, NE would get 30 spots. The district model is hard to sell if a region suddenly loses ~18% of their CMP spots.

Except that I remember hearing something about MI (and MAR?) going to a percentage of total teams model for slots at Champs. IIRC, the reason was something like the massive growth in MI. (Source: Jim Zondag's whitepaper, Q24)

That being the case, I would suspect that if an area starts with "# of regionals", and then gets some growth to the point where "% of total" gives more teams, then that would be the way to go; however, if you want all district areas roughly equal, then they all gotta be the same way.