Thread: The Everywhere Else District
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Re: The Everywhere Else District
The district model is based on a minimum team density. The EED, by definition, consists of those areas that either don't meet this density, or lack the desire to go to districts.

While I am not familiar with every district and its boundaries, it seems to me that every team that competed in a district in 2015 except 568 (Nerds of the North of Anchorage, AK) could reasonably drive POVs (personnaly owned vehicles) to their DCMP; no need to rent an intercity bus or buy airline tickets. For a Dallas DCMP in EED, this would be a very small fraction of the teams, and those who won there would then have to turn around and get another plane/bus to Detroit two weeks later.

I just don't see an upside that comes anywhere close to balancing the problems this would create, except for travel agents.
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