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Originally Posted by smistthegreat
In my opinion, the only neat way to resolve the DCMP difference is to split New York into two districts. It solves almost every issue with very limited downside.
- Each region is big enough to have its own district
- Downstate can have a NYC DCMP, upstate can have one in Rochester (or another upstate city)
- Even if we made one big district, the downstate teams would play downstate districts, and vice versa for upstate, essentially splitting the region already
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I want to specifically emphasize the last point here. A point earned in Long Island and a point earned in Rochester would not really even mean the same thing. I don't think it's unfair to say Finger Lakes is typically a more competitive event than Long Island. In other districts, teams can travel / be reassigned to help even things out, but due to the geographic constraints here, few teams will travel from one to the other (and the teams that would are already good enough to qualify for DCMP).
I really think that two districts, or one district and one region merged into the other, is the way to go here. I would even be fine if NYC / LI teams could opt to get real district points from events in the surrounding 3 districts.