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Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe
There is one issue with comparing it by cost per match, just because it is cheaper for each match doesn't mean it is cheaper in total. Districts are cheaper by cost per match, but actually more expensive in total in some cases, example below:
Regional
Local regional - 1st registration fee + no travel costs
Travel regional - 2nd registration fee + travel costs
District
Local district - 1st registration fee + no travel costs
Travel district - no registration fee + travel costs
DCMP - 2nd registration fee + travel costs
In the district scenario the total cost ends up being more because the team has to travel twice instead of once. This is not the case for all teams and obviously assumes they qualify for the DCMP. 2363 always had to travel twice and that won't change by moving to the district model so our costs will end up being equivalent.
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I guess the TL;DR - I don't care about 2 regional teams when they complain that they have to travel to their second district since the OVERWHELMING majority already have to travel and their costs for the part of the season that everyone gets (districts) will likely go down approximately $4000. I've included 2014 data backing my claim that a large percentage of teams attending only one event and incur travel costs already.
Of the 1258 (46%) teams that attended only one regional in 2014[1] (2709 total teams), 577 (~46% of the 1258) traveled more than 40 miles and thus likely incurred some sort of travel cost (likely hotel stay) for their first event. The big thing I'm trying to get at is that for many teams a single event is ALREADY incurring travel costs and we should be trying to locate districts to minimize that number when locating events.
Edit- I'm more than willing to provide json dumps of my data should you want to recreate it/play with it.
Edit2 - In case anyone is curious, there ARE who attend 2+ regionals and were within 40 miles of both, here's your list: [333, 353, 369, 371, 623, 907, 1230, 1389, 1796, 2421, 2964, 4456, 4464]
[1] This is the last year I have data handy for.