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Originally Posted by EricH
My usual proposal when this comes up is that the "outliers" (as you so rightly termed them) should be given an opportunity to join--or rather, be included in--the district that their "home" regional will be in. For you guys, I believe NYC is the typical option; Chile and Colombia tend to show up in Los Angeles. IIRC, Idaho was asked about this when the PNW district formed.
I suspect that as time goes on, district events will become the "standard" event, and it'll be less of an issue that "such-and-such group of teams can/can't play in this area".
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The issue with that is every season we'd have to attend two events separated by at least five days, and a successful season would include up to four trips to the US (or three with the first being quite long).
I understand that a whole system should not be compromised for the exceptional cases, but there probably exists at least a temporary solution. For example, keeping a few strategically located regionals would mimic the current hybrid solution and work for the "short-term".
The best answer would be our local event, but the reality is even if "local" was Europe (which can be very not local), we are a still far from a European regional let alone a European district. I don't know if Australia or Mexico have the teams to make a district work either, if they don't, regionals seem like they'd have to persist.