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Originally Posted by Tom Line
I look at it slightly differently. With the district model, you are going up against the same teams every single year - and some of those teams are monstrous when it comes to chairman's programs. Up till just recently, we knew that we were going to have to go up against 27 every single year - plus teams like 33, 548, etc. With the new 'presenting at multiple districts' model, it makes it that much more likely that those same teams will show up every year because they can't knock eachother out by presenting at the same district.
I think (like everything else in the district model) you end up with better teams going to worlds at the end through the system, but it also means that to break into the 'big time', you're going to have to take down the big dogs every year.
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I feel that's largely a consequence of the teams in an area. Teams that attended the Philadelphia regional had that experience for quite a while with 341 and 365 under the regional system. There were trickle effects out to other regionals as well (Chesapeake, Virginia, New Jersey, Pittsburgh, etc). I know while I was on 116 it was somewhat of a factor in deciding where we would submit particular years (though so was competition schedule, and competing against 612 or 1002 in their Chairman's primes was not a favorable decision, either).