[Thad House]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

We fly and rent a van.

Thank goodness for split champs.

Now we'll get to fly and rent a van.

-Mike

Wow. What an improvement. That's going to save so much money. /s

For split champs to be an improvement at all, any team outside of a 15 hour drive to the event HAS to be assigned to the later event. Once you are outside of 15 hours, it is more efficient to fly rather then drive, and the later the champs are, the tickets might be slightly cheaper.

In the US, the only areas further then a 15 hour drive from either champ are the tip of Florida at 16 hours from Houston, and then basically anywhere North or West of the line between Phoenix and Denver. I remember somebody did the math when they announced that, and it was about 700 teams. Unless some of those teams explicitly want to go to the other champs, they should always be assigned to whichever one is later.