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Originally Posted by Mr. Tatorscout

So I mentioned to a rookie parent that they were splitting champs to Houston and Detroit. He's not from this country and the first thing out of his mouth was "Why wouldn't they do east coast/west coast?"

Really, Houston and Detroit? Last I looked, the US is longer than it is tall. Pretty simple geometry proof can be inferred here.

I'm not sure it's that simple. You can't look at the US in terms of land. I think you need to look at it based on team density. If you were to split the US down the middle I would say that the number of teams in the Eastern half of the US is over 80%. (that map is from 2013, so maybe it's different now?)

If anyone has a lot of time on their hands, or knows a way to do it quickly, I would be interested to hear the best 2 cities to minimize driving distance for the majority of teams so that it could be split into two equally populated Super Regionals. I don't know where to draw the line, but I would say Everyone from Illinois over would be considered a "West" team. Maybe East/West is the best way, but I haven't heard anyone actually give a better suggestion when they are complaining that North/South is wrong.
(For the record Detroit is maybe a 10.5 hour bus instead of a 9 hour bus for my team, and neither is as warm and as I'd like)