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Originally Posted by Michael Hill
yup...It's really a way to further punish less sustainable regions. Additionally, it makes it less attractive for universities to host events because many want to attract non-local students. Since they get walled off from out of state students, the schools stop caring.
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I seriously doubt it is meant to punish less sustainable regions. Does it make it more difficult, yes, but punishment seems like the wrong word.
I do hope they are able to open inter district to teams traditionally doing regionals, but for various reasons, I see why they are not opeing it up yet.
I suspect we will continue to see the trend of "out of district" play being early in the season for many teams. There are a lot of good reasons to do a tune-up outside of your district. Hopefully this will fill and balance the early and (sometimes difficult to fill) events. It will also be a trip early in comp season which often helps form team unity. I am anxious to see how much this is taken advantage of this next year.