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1 hour drives are comfortably close. Take away the Central Florida teams with longer than 1 hour drives and you still have 28-30. Thats still more than the total considered in South Florida total; and then you can take out 2-4 teams on the OP's picture that are on the west coast of South Florida. When I was a student on 1592, we drove over from Cocoa and drove home everyday; that was an hour both ways if the traffic was good.

And just saying this as well, I was a mentor on the team the first year the South Florida regional happened and when we saw how expensive hotels in South Florida were, we had to stay like almost an hour away just to keep the hotel costs reasonable. You can find cheaper ones in Orlando(than Miami/Boca Raton/Ft. Lauderdale) and even cheaper ones within 25-30 minutes of Orlando.