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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Why must the minority of teams be catered to for "equity's sake?" The population central of teams in the district is far closer to the MD site than Richmond/VCU. Having the DCMP there makes a lot more sense for the district as a whole, even if it's not ideal for some teams. Why not leave it near the population center for utility's sake?
Yes, there are teams that end up paying more in travel costs when they move from one regional competition to competing two, three, or fours times in a district system. It really shouldn't be as surprising or as controversial that competing in more events ends up costing more money to sparsely located teams.
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I think that there isn't any significant way to feasibly reduce the travel costs for teams in Western Virginia and the Hampton Roads area (possibly only exception a second district in Hampton Roads). However, I still believe that, ideally, all teams would have to travel only once within their district. Obviously this isn't possible, as Western VA provides the exception. But I think it would be fair to have the teams in the DC metro area travel for the District Championship. If they had to only travel for the District Championship at VCU (since the other events are nearby and within driving distance), then the Central Virginia and Metro DC area teams would only have to travel one time before Worlds. To help the Hampton Roads teams and some Northern VA teams, the future 8th and 9th district events should be thrown in the Winchester and Norfolk areas. This would ensure that the fewest number of teams possible have to travel twice in the region.
TLDR: In order to make the equity of travel better (hence making team growth easier), the district championship should be at VCU at least 50% of the time.