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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman
That being said, just like has happened in every other district, we do need to include established regional venues within our web of eventual district/district championship events.
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Only one of the 18 FiM District events was previously a Regional location (W Mich.). Great Lakes was the MSC location until this year. Wayne State couldn't guarantee the arena one year because their basketball team might have made playoffs, so we moved out of there too.
On the subject of moving to smaller cities in more remote locations, we now have 3 - Traverse City (from year 1), Escanaba (last year) and Standish (new this year). It resembles "build it and they will come". More importantly, the event becomes a community and media event in the smaller locations. I was at the first TC event, and it was well covered by the local news media. People came from quite a distance away to see what it was about.