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Originally Posted by Zebra_Fact_Man
The whole reason why districts work better is because (besides giving teams double the guaranteed playing time for the same cost) they make the competitions more local. (In the case of MI) Instead of having 4-5 regional locations to choose from in the state (era 2008), now we have 15 district! More events = less drive distance. For my team specifically, our drive distances were 15 minutes away and 1.25 hours away. Not bad at all.
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Travel distance in Texas will always be an issue. Districts will provide more events that are probably closer when more events are added but we have teams from all over the state and many will always have to travel a great distance to get to at least one event.
I live in Central Texas (Austin) and it is a 3 hour drive to two of the current locations (Houston and Dallas and 5 hours (Lubbock) for another. Teams in far West Texas will have at least 5-6 hours to get to the closest location that could be a district tournament. I know that more locations will be holding tournaments but teams in the Lubbock, El Paso and the Valley areas will have large distances to travel for second events.