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Originally Posted by MARS_James
I am hoping one day preferably sooner rather then later FIRST will allow individual teams to choose what their team will be doing, what I mean is you have a list of every District with a button and then a Regional System button. Let teams who geographically are closer to a district, even if it isn't their "home" district, choose to be in a district while teams in a district who geographically better suited to go to a regional choose to opt out of a districts. It has become abundantly clear that state borders do not make the best markers for district borders.
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But for tracking teams the state boarders are the best available solution currently. Having teams be able to opt in or out would create a logistical nightmare for FIRST and the organizations running the individual districts. I do agree that state lines are not the best for the teams though. Case in point that I'm very familiar with is Idaho. The teams in the northern part of the state are as little as 30 min away from the locations we've held a district event and last year the DCMP. So many of them ended up going to Calgary which prevented some teams from attending a second event like they had in the past. The new Boise Regional will be better.
Originally FIRST wanted all or none of ID, for ease of sorting teams, but we eventually them convinced to allow the N. ID teams to join the PNW district. Because of the effort to make Boise happen that decision was reversed.