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Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux
The real question is will inter-district play be ready for 2017? We'll have even more districts by then and will probably hit a point where multiple districts border each other (especially if Illinois goes it alone and Missouri / Kansas create their own).
I'd hate to see some of our southern Illinois friends have to drive hours when they have events 20-30 minutes away in St. Louis.
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Many of those teams trace their roots to the beginning of the St. Louis Regional. Keeping them out of district play in their home area would be wrong.
I feel the same way about Indiana, Ohio, and Ontario teams that competed in the Great Lakes Regional, back in the day. Excluding them from FiM districts may have been necessary* to get district-style competition started, but I don't believe it should be necessary to repeat that pain elsewhere now.
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*A debatable topic, but the debate is moot now.
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